Milk Spilled on the Stove
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Question
We cooked dairy porridge on the stove. Some of the porridge spilled onto the stove. Today I cooked liver, and before placing the liver, I fried onions on the burner exactly where the porridge spilled previously, then moved it to another burner after frying and added the liver. There are still visible residues on the grates. 1. Is the dish kosher? 2. What is the status of the pot? 3. When I poured the liver from the pan, it touched the side of the pan and a bit underneath. Will this worsen the status of the dish?
Answer
Hello,
If the dairy residues on the grates have already burned from other cooking, the liver is kosher.
If there is milk left that has not burned, for example, when immediately after the spill, meat is cooked there, if there is sixty times the amount in the dish against the spilled milk stuck to the stove, the dish is kosher. [And this is the case in the vast majority of cases].
However, if there is not sixty times the amount in the dish against the dairy spill, the dish is forbidden.
In any case where the milk was not burned, the pan requires koshering.
If the pan is coated with Teflon or other synthetic coatings, it cannot be koshered, and it should be discarded.
Source
Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah, Siman 92, Se'if 5