Waiting Between Cheese and Meat
Question
Answer
Shalom u’vrachah
After hard yellow cheese, one must wait 6 hours.
The poskim disagree as to whether, after regular yellow cheese, one must wait 6 hours before eating meat. The ruling of our teacher Rabbi Amram Fried shlita is to be stringent in this matter, except in the case of a se’udat mitzvah and the like.
With other cheeses, whether firm or soft, there is no need to wait 6 hours.
Source
Rema, Yoreh De’ah, siman 89, se’if 2
And this is the custom: whenever the cheese is hard, one does not eat even poultry after it, just as with cheese after meat.
Yad Yehudah, HaPeirush HaKatzar, siman 89, se’if katan 25
Whenever the cheese is hard, etc. Anything that has aged for six months is called hard, and likewise wormy cheese; Issur VeHeter. And the Taz is stringent also with cheese that was set in a stomach, and this has already become the custom.
