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Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Waiting between Eating: Bread with Dairy, Then Meat
Situation You said ha'motzi over bread for a dairy meal.
Status You may not reuse the same bread for a meat-containing meal. 
What To Do You may either:
  • Get some new bread, or
  • Not eat bread at all with the meat.
Note There is no need to say birkat ha'mazon after the milk-containing food and then say ha'motzi (or other fore-blessings) before eating the meat-containing foods.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Waiting between Eating: Neutral/Pareve D or DE after Meat
If you can definitively ascertain that a food is or is not dairy from the ingredient list, you may rely on it.
However, many food additives or ingredients that are dairy do not contain the word “milk" or “dairy” (for example, dairy-based flavorings or dairy derivatives such as whey or casein/sodium caseinate).
Situation Neutral/pareve food marked “D” or “DE” (“dairy equipment”) has no dairy ingredients (or the dairy ingredients constitute less than 1/60 of the food's volume.)
Note This does not get measured by weight.
What To Do You may eat the food:
  • Immediately after eating meat foods, but
  • Not together with the meat food.
Situation Genuine dairy constitutes more than 1/60th of the volume of the processed food.
What To Do You may not eat the food with, or immediately after, the meat food.

Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Waiting between Eating: Meat after Dairy
To eat meat-containing food after eating dairy food:
  • Wait half an hour, or
  • You must:
    • Drink (or rinse your mouth with) some neutral/pareve beverage, and
    • Eat some neutral/pareve solid food.
Reason There may still be some dairy remaining in your mouth.
 
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Waiting between Eating: Dairy after Meat
You may not eat dairy-containing foods directly after eating meat-containing foods, for two reasons:
  • So as not to have meat stuck in your teeth when you eat milk-containing foods.
  • So as not to eat dairy foods while you still can detect the taste of the meat-containing foods in your system.
Note There are various customs on how long to wait after eating meat-containing foods to eat dairy-containing foods, including:
  • 60 minutes for Jews whose families originated in Holland.
  • 3 hours for Jews whose families originated in Germany.
  • 6 hours for most other Jews, with variations including 5 hours-1 minute, 5 hours-31 minutes, and 6 hours.
Note You do not need to restart the waiting period if you burp up meat long after you eat it.
Kashrut and Worcestershire Sauce
You may use and eat Worcestershire sauce on meat if the fish component is batel ba'shishim (nullified by being less than 1/60th of the total volume).
Kashrut: Fish: Fish and Meat Together
Do not cook or eat meat-containing and fish-containing foods together:
  • After eating fish, you must eat and drink some other food before eating meat-containing food.
  • After eating meat-containing food, you must eat and drink some other food before eating fish.
Note If meat and fish were mixed or cooked together, there is no need to kasher the utensils.
Kashrut: Fish: Dairy and Fish Together
You may cook and/or eat dairy-containing and fish-containing foods together. Sefardim do not eat dairy and fish together.
Kashrut: Smoked Fish
Smoked fish needs supervision due to possibly non-kosher items:
  • Brine in which the fish are soaked,
  • Hooks from which the fish are hung.
 
Kashrut: Eggs: Hard-Boiling in Non-Kosher Pot
Do not eat hard-boiled eggs cooked in a non-kosher pot.
 
Kashrut: Eggs: Few or Even Numbers
You may eat even numbers of food items.
Note Some people don't cook one or two eggs by themselves, but there is no problem with doing so.
Kashrut: Eggs: Blood Spots: Unfertilized/Fertilized
Blood spots even from unfertilized eggs may not be eaten; the custom is not to eat that entire egg. Blood spots in fertilized eggs render the entire egg non-kosher.
 
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat
See Kashrut: Dairy/Meat Combinations.
Kashrut: Cheese: Microbial Enzymes
Cheese that is made using even microbial enzymes requires kosher supervision.
Kashrut: Dairy: Chalav Yisrael

Chalav Yisrael is milk or milk products for which the milking was supervised by a religious Jew. Chalav Yisrael applies to milk, cream, and milk solids/dried milk. The only milk derivatives that are not subject to restrictions of chalav Yisrael are whey and cheese. But they must still be kosher.

Note Cooking kosher, non-chalav Yisrael dairy foods does not render the utensil non-kosher, even for someone who only eats chalav Yisrael.


 
Kashrut: Dairy: Common Milk (Chalav Stam)
For milk to be kosher, it must come from a kosher animal. You may use common milk (milk sold in conventional food stores without any kosher supervision) in the US.
Reason The US government enforces laws that permit only cow's milk to be sold as common milk.
Note If a country does not have such laws or does not strictly enforce them, you may not rely on that leniency and may only use milk supervised by Jews (chalav Yisrael).
Note Some people drink only chalav Yisrael milk even in the US.