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Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Hot Dairy Food Spatters INTO Meat Pot, or Vice Versa
Situation
  • Hot dairy food spatters INTO a pot of meat food, or vice versa.
  • Spatter is less than 1/60th of the volume of the food into which it spattered.
Status The spattered food is nullified (batel ba'shishim).
What To Do As there is nothing to wash off, the food may be eaten, but you should remove the spattered food, if possible. The pot is kosher.

Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Pot Spatters and Pareve
Situation
  • Food of one gender spatters onto the outside of a pareve utensil. 
  • Either the food and/or the utensil are hot.
Note If the pot is not hot, a small spatter will not be hot.  If the spatter is large (more than one drop), the spatter may be hot. Ask a rabbi what to do.
Status The utensil assumes the spatter's gender UNLESS the spatter was less than 1/60th of the volume of the metal in the pareve utensil (not 1/60th of the volume the container usually holds). Consult a rabbi.

Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Larger Pot Spatters above Normal Food Line
Situation
  • A hot, empty pot of one gender gets a spatter of opposite-gender food ABOVE the normal food line. 
  • The spatter is more than 1/3600 of the normally used volume of the pot.
Status The pot is non-kosher.
What To Do You must kasher the pot by washing in cold water and soap, waiting 24 hours, and then boiling the pot.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Tiny Pot Spatters: Outside of Utensil, Above Normal Food Line
Situation
  • The outside of a hot, empty pot of one gender gets a spatter of opposite-gender food ABOVE the normal food line. 
  • The spatter is less than 1/3600 of the normally used volume of the pot (instead of the normal criterion of 1/60th of the volume--this being 1/60th of 1/60th).
Status The pot is kosher after 24 hours without kashering.
What To Do You must wash the pot off with cold water and soap.
Note This applies even if the pot had been used at 120° F (49° C) or more within 24 hours.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Pot Spatters: Outside of Utensil, Below Normal Food Line
Situation A hot or cold meat utensil is empty or contains meat food. It receives a spatter of dairy below the normal food line and the spatter is less 1/60th of the volume of the pot.
Status
  • The food in the utensil (if any) is kosher in all cases.
  • Pot is kosher after 24 hours without kashering.
What To Do You must wash the pot off with cold water and soap.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Spatter Temperature
You may assume that a spatter of single drops is less than 120° F (49° C) when it contacts a cold utensil or other food.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: What Is a Spatter
A spatter is single drops of a substance.
Note In this website, a small spatter is a single drop and a large spatter is several or more drops.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Soaked Together
For different genders of food being soaked together, see Taste Transfer: Soaking.
Eating Dairy or Meat Cooked in Neutral/Pareve Pot or Pan
If you ate meat, you may then eat neutral/pareve food cooked in a clean dairy pan, even if the dairy pan was used at 120° F (49° C) or more within 24 hours.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Baking at Same Time: Both UNCOVERED; One Is Spicy/Charif
Situation Two uncovered pans (one of dairy food, one of meat) are baked in the same oven at same time. The food in only one of them is spicy/charif.  Even if the:
  • Pans are clean and dry,
  • Pans are not touching, and
  • Food is non-liquid.
Status The spicy/charif one is b'di'avad kosher;
The non-spicy utensil and its contents are not kosher.
 
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Baking at Same Time: Both UNCOVERED and SPICY/Charif
Situation The food in two uncovered pans (one of dairy food, one of meat) baked in an oven at the same time is spicy/charif.
Status The food and utensils all become non-kosher, even if the:
  • Pans are clean and dry,
  • Pans are not touching, AND
  • Food is non-liquid.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Baking at Same Time: Liquid, UNCOVERED
Situation Two uncovered pans of food—one dairy, one meat—are baked at the same time in an oven. The contents of both pans are liquid (liquid before AND after cooking; even if not spicy).
Status They are both non-kosher, even if one pan is covered (but consult a rabbi for possible leniencies).


Situation Two pans—one dairy, one meat—bake at same time in same oven:
  • One is covered and contains liquid (even if not spicy);
  • One is not covered and contains solid food.
Status They are both kosher.


Situation Two pans—one dairy, one meat—bake at same time in same oven:
  • One is covered and contains solid food.
  • One is not covered and contains liquid (even if not spicy).
Status They are both non-kosher.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Baking at Same Time: Solid, UNCOVERED
L'chatchila, you should not bake uncovered dairy and meat foods in the same oven at the same time, even if both pans:
  • Are non-liquid, AND
  • Do not touch each other.
B'di'avad, both uncovered pans remain kosher—even if they touch each other, if both pans:
  • Are non-liquid,
  • Are clean and dry (on the outside), AND
  • Do not contain spicy/charif food.
Example
Situation
  • Food in both pans is solid.
  • One pan is covered, one pan is uncovered.
  • Both pans are clean and dry on outside. 
  • No spicy/charif.
Status They are both kosher b'dia'vad.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Baking at Same Time: Solid, COVERED
L'chatchila: Do not bake separate pans—whether uncovered or not—of dairy food and meat food in the oven at the same time.
Reason The food might spill over.
B'di'avad, you may cook pans of dairy food and meat food at the same time in one oven if both are:
  • Not touching,
  • Covered, AND
  • Non-liquid; i.e., either:
    • Solid, or
    • Liquid only at the beginning or end of the cooking (but not both beginning and end).

 

Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Baking at Same Time: Definition of Terms
  • “Solid,” or “non-liquid,” means food is solid before OR after cooking--or both.
  • “Covered” means pan has at least a single cover; does not need to be sealed or double wrapped.