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אֹֽכְלָ֣ה בָשָׂ֔ר כִּֽי־תְאַוֶּ֥ה נַפְשְׁךָ֖ לֶֽאֱכֹ֣ל בָּשָׂ֑ר בְּכָל־אַוַּ֥ת נַפְשְׁךָ֖ תֹּאכַ֥ל בָּשָֽׂר:
“‘I will eat meat’, because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat whenever you wish” (Devarim 12:20).
This question is taken from a WhatsApp group in which Rabbi Linzer responds to halakhic questions from rabbis and community members.
QUESTION
What do you think about using a fleishig deep fryer that hasn’t been used in a week with new oil to deep fry pareve things at an event where dairy will be separately served? The event is a drive-through where people will pick up pizza and then a few minutes later pick up something deep fried.
ANSWER
If we were to ignore the be’ein (actual foodstuff), then the rule is that a fleishig or milkhig keli eino ben yomo (utensil that hasn’t been used in 24 hours) can be used lekhatchilah for something pareve, even if one is going to eat it with the other min. So, for example, you can use your fleishig soup pot to cook noodles that you will afterwards melt cheese on.
Given the be’ein issue here—if there genuinely is edible be’ein remnants on the grate, etc., then you have fleishig cooking directly with pareve, and you can’t eat the pareve things with milkhigs. That being said—I assume that there is easily 60x the gunk, so it is bateil (nullified) once you cook it, and it can be argued that it isn’t אין מבטלין איסור לכתחליה (the prohibition of deliberately nullifying forbidden food) because (1) it is heter (permitted food), not issur (forbidden food) and (2) you are just trying to use the fryer, you are not trying to mix up the gunk. Add to that that if you have used industrial cleaner on it, it is all pagum (ruined). So, assuming it is definitely 60, and you have cleaned it with a poisonous/pogem cleaner, I can definitely see being lenient if needed.
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