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96 THE ROYAL TABLE
The pot, however, should not be used again either for meat
or milk until
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purified. The same regulations hold for
milk cooked in a meat pot. The principle of "the lower
conquers" applies to pots and their covers as well as to
foods. Thus a cold milk cover placed over a pot of meat
renders the contents of the pot unfit for use when the con-
tents are steaming. If the cover is hot and the pot cold,
the contents may be eaten, but should first be pared if
possible. The law does not apply to empty pans or the
covers with which they happen to come in contact. 3*
In-
sertion of a spoon into food of a kind opposite than that
for which the spoon is designated is one of the commonest
kitchen errors. Since it is impossible to determine how
much matter the boling pot extracted from the spoon, the
entire volume of the portion of that spoon which has been
immersed must be annulled by sixty volumes. 35 When the
same spoon is inserted twice, or any number of times, one
annulment suffices. 38
If the volume of the contents of the
pot is sufficient to annul the spoon, the pot and its con-
tents are kosher, but the spoon must be purified; but in
cases where the volume is relatively small, the contents
are inedible, and the pot is trefak until purified. In the
above cases, had the spoon not been used for twenty-four
hours prior to the questionable insertion, the pot and its
contents are unaffected, but the spoon becomes trefah. 37
Vegetables cooked in a milk pot unused for twenty-four
hours previously, into which a meat spoon used within
twenty-four hours has been thrust, should be eaten in meat
88 Y. D ibid. Ramah and Shack ad loc. subsection 3. For laws of
purification see below, Chapter XI
84 Y. D. ibid Ramah.
85 Y. D. 94, 1.
86 Y. D. ibid, Ramah.
" Ibid. 4, Ramah.