Butter splashed on a meat pot on the fire from outside

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Question

An omelet fried with butter splashed from the pan onto a pot on the fire, covered with meat soup. Is the food and the utensil forbidden?

Answer

Since the pot is covered, and there is sixty times the volume in the pot against the drop, the food is permitted, and the soup should be immediately removed from the pot from the other side. The pot requires boiling.

A good piece of advice: do not cook dairy on the stove when there are meat pots. However, it is not obligatory by law.

Source

Shulchan Aruch, Siman 92, Se'if 5: "A drop of milk that fell on a pot on the fire from outside, if it fell opposite the dish, only sixty against the drop that penetrates inside is needed, and it is considered as if it fell into the dish." The Pri Chadash wrote that when the pot is covered, it is always considered that it fell opposite the dish, therefore sixty against the drop is sufficient to permit the food. The Rema wrote there, Se'if 6, in the case it fell opposite the sauce and there is sixty, and his words are: "And then the pot becomes forbidden, even if there is sixty in the dish against the drop that fell, and one should immediately pour out the dish from the other side, not opposite the drop."

The reasoning of the Rema, requiring to pour out the dish not opposite the drop and to boil the utensil, is because we do not know if it penetrates immediately through the wall into the pot, and therefore if it penetrates, there is sixty and everything is permitted, and if it does not penetrate, the food is permitted, since the drop of milk did not reach it, and there is a concern that it penetrates but not immediately, and therefore to avoid it being considered as nullifying a prohibition from the outset, one should immediately pour out the dish from the other side to the outside.

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