Waiting Between Cheese and Meat
Question
How long must one wait between cheese and meat? I heard that there is a difference between various types of cheese; what is the general rule regarding this?
Answer
Shalom u’vracha
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 context of a seudat mitzvah and the like.
Other cheeses, whether firm or soft, do not require waiting 6 hours.
Source
Rema, Yoreh De’ah, siman 89, se’if 2
And this is the practice: whenever the cheese is hard, one does not eat even poultry after it, just as with cheese after meat.
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