Dairy utensil on a meat lid
Question
My son made omelets (parve) in a dairy frying pan with a dairy spatula; both were not ben yomo. Afterwards he put the hot spatula onto an upside‑down lid of a meat pot that was on the counter. The lid was dirty from condensation of chicken soup. Does the spatula require hagalah (kashering in boiling water)? There is a possibility that afterwards he returned the spatula to the pan to make another omelet. If so, does the pan also require hagalah?
Thank you in advance.
Answer
Shalom u’vracha,
If the spatula was boiling hot when it was placed on the meaty liquid, the spatula becomes forbidden and requires hagalah (kashering in boiling water).
The frying pan does not require hagalah, because the amount of absorbed taste in the spatula is very small, and in the second omelet there was far more than sixty times that absorbed taste.
