Obligation of Immersion for a Vessel Primarily Used for Storage but Occasionally for Eating
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Question
A glass vessel primarily intended for food storage, but occasionally used to serve food at the table. Does it require immersion with a blessing?
Answer
A vessel intended for storage, and primarily used for storage, is immersed without a blessing.
Source
Rabbi Akiva Eiger in Yoreh De'ah, beginning of Siman 120, cites in the name of Mahari Milida that storage vessels do not require immersion, and in the name of OU that they do require immersion. They are immersed without a blessing due to doubt. The Pri Chadash wrote in Se'if Katan 12 and Se'if Katan 19 that a vessel primarily used for non-food purposes, and occasionally for food, follows its primary use. Even according to the Rema in Siman 551, Se'if 6, who holds that for hag'alah (purging) we do not follow the primary use, it is because hag'alah is to remove absorbed substances, and one instance of absorption in a primary vessel suffices to prohibit. Not so with immersion of vessels, which is to remove the impurity of the non-Jew, and they decreed only for food vessels, following the primary use. So wrote the Pitchei Teshuva, Se'if Katan 6, and the Aruch HaShulchan, Se'if Katan 40. However, the Pri Toar disagrees. Here, where the primary use is for storage, it is immersed without a blessing, following the opinion of the Pri Chadash.