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I was making chicken soup (onion and chicken bones in water) and starting to remove the foam from the top, when I realised I was scooping it into a dairy Corelle bowl. The soup was not yet bubbling. I checked the liquid with my hand and it was hot, but not boiling. Is the dairy corelle bowl still usable or has to be thrown out? After this, I left the kitchen and came back to find the soup had boiled out over the counter and dripped into all the drawers below. The top drawer is for dairy cutlery and several things got splashed with chicken soup - wooden rolling pin, plastic cookie cutters and my metal hand blender. It's been an adventure! What is the status of all these dairy things

Answer

Shalom! 

Thank you for your question. 

If the liquid was hot — known as yad soledes bo — then, as I understand, the Corelle is a glass dish. So if you follow Sephardic custom, it does not require hagalah and remains kosher, and can be used with its original use which was dairy. But according to Ashkenazi custom, it would be considered treif, and hagalah would not help to kasher it. 

Regarding everything else, if the overflow from the pot was directly running onto the cutlery in the drawers, they would need to be koshered.  If however it splashed and then dripped onto the cutlery in the drawers then one does not need to do Hagalah.

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