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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.
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:
The non-spicy utensil and its contents are not kosher.- Pans are clean and dry,
- Pans are not touching, and
- Food is non-liquid.
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:
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:
Situation Two pans—one dairy, one meat—bake at same time in same oven:
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.
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).
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.
- 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.
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:
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
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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.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Neutral/Pareve Foods in Dirty Dairy or Meat Pan
Situation You want to bake neutral/pareve food in a meat pan that has some meat liquid in the bottom.
What To Do You must use a double layer of separation such as foil, or else the pareve food will become meat (even if there is one layer of foil between the pareve food and the meat liquid).
What To Do You must use a double layer of separation such as foil, or else the pareve food will become meat (even if there is one layer of foil between the pareve food and the meat liquid).
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Neutral/Pareve Foods in Clean Dairy or Meat Pan
Situation You cooked pareve food in a clean meat (or dairy) utensil.
What To Do
What To Do
- You may eat dairy-containing (or meat-containing) food immediately afterward.
- You may not eat the food on a plate or utensil of the opposite gender.
- You may certainly not eat it WITH opposite-gender food.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Physical Separations: Washing Hands between Dairy and Meat
Situation You drank milk or ate solid dairy foods (such as cheese) and now want to touch and eat meat-containing foods.
What To Do
What To Do
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Milk
You do not need to wash your hands after drinking milk unless you actually touched the milk liquid. -
Solid Dairy
You must wash your hands after eating solid dairy foods.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Physical Separations: Dairy and Meat on Table
Situation Two eat at the same table, one person is eating dairy and the other, meat.
What To Do Separate the dairy and meat-containing foods using separate placemats or any type of physical barrier.
Note You do not need to use a separator if the people at the table are strangers to each other; the separation is needed only if they know each other from before.
Reason Separation serves as a reminder not to eat the opposite-gender food.
What To Do Separate the dairy and meat-containing foods using separate placemats or any type of physical barrier.
Note You do not need to use a separator if the people at the table are strangers to each other; the separation is needed only if they know each other from before.
Reason Separation serves as a reminder not to eat the opposite-gender food.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Waiting between Eating: Children
Children of any age, even babies, should wait one hour between eating dairy and meat-containing foods, unless there are health reasons not to wait.
From gil chinuch, children should wait 6 hours (or however long it is your custom to wait) between eating meat and dairy.
From gil chinuch, children should wait 6 hours (or however long it is your custom to wait) between eating meat and dairy.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Waiting between Eating: Parmesan Cheese
Situation You eat Parmesan cheese.
Status Before eating meat, you must wait six hours (or whatever is your custom to wait between eating meat and dairy).
Note Parmesan cheese is the only commonly available cheese that is considered hard enough to require waiting six hours after eating it before you eat meat-containing foods.
Note Parmesan cheese requires this waiting period even when the cheese is finely ground or is melted on pizza, mushrooms, or other foods.
Status Before eating meat, you must wait six hours (or whatever is your custom to wait between eating meat and dairy).
Note Parmesan cheese is the only commonly available cheese that is considered hard enough to require waiting six hours after eating it before you eat meat-containing foods.
Note Parmesan cheese requires this waiting period even when the cheese is finely ground or is melted on pizza, mushrooms, or other foods.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Waiting between Eating: Putting Dairy/Meat in Mouth
Situation You put into your mouth any amount of meat--even if you didn't swallow it or if you spit it out.
Status You may not consume dairy foods soon afterward.
What To Do You must wait as usual (6 hours, or whatever your custom is between eating meat and dairy).
Status You may not consume dairy foods soon afterward.
What To Do You must wait as usual (6 hours, or whatever your custom is between eating meat and dairy).