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A drop of hot milk fell on a cold Pareve urn. Is it ok?

If the milk was or hotter - you should Kasher it. In this case, Kashering can be done by cleaning the urn well, waiting 24 hours, and pouring boiling…

Kasherable Counter Materials

Question: Can Caesarstone quartz counter tops be Kashered? Do you have recommended materials for a new kitchen's counters (other than granite, which is expensive), that would be easy to…

Do new stove tops and ovens need to be Toveled or Kashered?

The stove top does not need to be Toiveled. If it is brand new, it does not need to be Kashered either. Sources: לענין טבילה, ראה שו"ע סי'…

I’m living in an apartment with some friends who aren’t very careful with Kashrus. Can I use the pots and pans that I am pretty sure are kosher?

I'm living in an apartment with some friends who aren't very careful with Kashrus. Some of the Keilim used for food are probably not kosher anymore. There's a few…

Is it permissible to Kasher meat forks and spoons from Passover to Pareve weekday and eventually perhaps use it for dairy for a weekday?

It is OK to Kasher from Fleishig (or Milchig) to Pareve. If one did Kasher from Fleishig to Pareve, and then at a later stage wants to now make it…

I used my Pareve oven to bake Milchig cookies. It’s nothing that splatters onto the oven or anything that would make the oven dirty, it was just baked on a disposable baking sheet. To use the oven for Pareve again, do I need to kosher it? If yes, how so?

The oven needs to be Kashered if you want it to be Pareve, (even if none of the Milchig cookies spilled or splattered). To Kasher the oven in this instance…

שאלה בבשר בחלב במתקן מים

שאלה: מדובר במתקן לחימום מים, שיש מסגרת של מתכת מסביב כמו כיסוי (צירפתי תמונות למטה), והמכסה למעלה אינו נוגע במתקן עצמו. המקום היחיד שיש נגיעה בין המתקן לכיסוי זה…

If we cook pasta in a clean meat pot and pour it out (w/the boiling water) into a pasta strainer, does the strainer become “meaty”? Would I be able to later use the same strainer with pasta cooked in a dairy pot that would be put into a dairy recipe? (both pots were not used with their respective ‘genders’ meat and milk in 24 hours)

The strainer will not become fleishig or milchig in either case. Sources: 1) The taste of the meat (or dairy) absorbed in the pot after 24 hours is טעם…

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