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I normally have a separate oven that we uses for all dairy. Unfortunately it has broken and can’t be fixed before Shavuos. I was wondering if I could use the oven that I normally use strictly for Fleishigs and use it to make dairy at this time (covered if necessary)?

There are countless details involved in converting ovens and stoves from meat use to dairy, but this is not the forum to delve into this at length. (We will…

For business purposes, 3 Jews purchase a hotel. They have a managing company managing it. In the hotel there is a Treif restaurant. Is that an issue?

There is a prohibition of doing business with non-kosher food, in addition to the prohibition of benefiting from some issurim (such as milk and meat mixtures). The best solution…

Article: Kashrus Q: What is the upshot of steam?

Halachah considers Zeiah (steam or vapor) generated by high temperatures to fall under the same category as the food that emits it, whether what’s cooking is solid or liquid: A Fleishig (meat)…

If someone takes a plastic gallon of water and pours water into a cooking Cholent does the water bottle become Fleishig?

If they took the same water and poured it into the Keurig machine while cold is there any problem? The water being poured was always cold. Answer: If…

Article: Are Public Hot-Water Urns Kosher?

A hot water urn that is available for public use in a place of business, work or school cafeteria or an airline kitchen may become Treif (non-kosher) when it comes…

Article: The Halachah of Shtei Kedeiros (Two Pots)

Le’chatchilah (the correct behavior before the fact), a hot milchig (dairy) pot and a hot fleishig (meat) pot should not come into contact with each other. In case they did touch, Be’dieved (after the…

Milchig was cooked on a Fleish pan (which the pan was not used for about two weeks). A plastic Milchig spatula was used to stir the cooking food and then the contents were put hot on Milchig plates. Metal Milchig utensils were used to eat (which the Milchige utensils were last used two days prior). Meat was not noticed until after eating. Can I kosher the Fleishig pan, and how. The Milchig spatula, plate and utensils?

The Fleishig pan needs to be Kashered. Turn the pan upside down on the fire and allow the heat to penetrate for several minutes. The Milchig utensils are all…

Can I bake something in a Fleishig oven and serve it with Milchig ice cream?

If served together Mamosh, it should not be done L'chatchilla. So, can I first preheat the oven on high temperature and then use it together? See here. …

I have only one sink. May I put metal racks in the sink, to be able to use it for Milching and Fleishig?

It is very difficult to have one sink and properly use it for Milichig and Fleishig. The best solution is to designate the sink for the use of the…

If I use a Fleishig mixing bowl and utensils to mix a batter and then bake it in a Pareve oven, can I have that food together with Milchig food, for example the bread with butter?

Yes.

We fried onions in a meat pot which had not been used for more that 24 hours. We then prepared a Parve soup. Do we need to wait after eating the soup before eating milk foods?

Although the soup is considered Fleishig, you may have Milchig afterwards. See here.

Bread was baked in a Fleishig oven and toasted in a Milchig toaster…

Question: Bread was baked in a Fleishig oven (meat had been roasted uncovered in the oven within 24 hours previously). Someone, ignoring the warning sign on the bread package,…

ילד שפך חלב לתוך סיר של מרק עוף, ואיני יודע כמה חלב הוא שפך, אם שפך רבע כוס חלב, יש שישים, אם זה הי’ חצי, אין שישים. אני לא רואה שינוי במראה של המרק, מה הדין?

יש להקל אם מדובר על הפסד מרובה. מקורות: נעשה ע׳י קטן דינו כנשפך. ולכן בנדו״ז, בבשר עוף בחלב שהוא דרבנן, אפשר להקל בהפסד מרובה. וגם אם יש…

Sharp Milchig Sauce Poured Over Food Hot Cooked in Fleshig Pot

Question: I made a sauce which had onion and garlic cut with a Milchig knife and made in a Milchig frying pan. I then poured the sauce onto beans…

I have a typical metal salad bowl that I rarely but occasionally use with dairy, but always wash it with the dairy dishes, and it was accidentally put in the Fleishig dishwasher with the dirty dishes from Shabbos. What is it’s current status?

The bowl should be Kashered. The dishwasher and all the other dishes are fine.

Can we take water from our Shabbos kettle, to warm a baby bottle in a paper Kli Shlishi?

The baby bottle is Milchig, the kettle is Pareve, and our kitchen sink and all our other kitchen utensils are Fleishig. Answer: You are allowed to put a…

I have a new pan, and I cooked something Pareve in it, but mixed it with a clean Milchig spoon which had been used in the past 24 hours. Could I use the pan for Fleishigs now?

Assuming that the Milchig spoon was used for dairy in the last 24 hours, accordingly, if there were sixty times more in the cooked Pareve pan compared to the amount…

I served platters of green peppers, onions, and lettuce by a meal with bagels and salads which also had Milchig (cream cheese and cheese). I requested not to use the same utensils as the Milchig with everything else, but I don’t think people were careful about it. Can I wash the vegetables and cook them together with hot Fleishigs? They were cut with a Pareve knife and I put oil and salt on the onions before leaving them overnight.

If you make sure to wash them well so that there is definitely no Milchigs whatsoever on the vegetables, then it is OK.

Milchig Hot Cocoa in Fleishig glass cup & ceramic mug

Question: By mistake a Milchig cocoa powder mix was used to make hot cocoa in my Fleishig glass cups and one mug. Is there a way to make the…

I made Challah using a majority of milk with about half to a full cup of water. Is it Hamotzei or Mezonos?

It would be Mezonos, since there is more other liquid than water. However, besides the question of its Brachah, there is a serious Kashrus problem here. Chazal forbade baking…