Cohn, Jacob. The Royal Table - VWC: Faculty/Staff Web

MIXTURES OF MEAT AND MILK 97
dishes, and the pot purified before further use. In case
the pot has been used within twenty-four hours, but the
spoon has not been used, the vegetables should be eaten
from milk dishes, and the spoon set aside. 38 Hot meat
carved with a milk knife known to have been used within
twenty-four hours becomes unfit for use, unless the volume
of the meat is sixty times the volume of that part of the
blade with which it came into contact. If it is not defi-
nitely known that the knife was used that day it suffices
merely to pare the meat at the places where it came in
contact with the blade. 39
Meat and milk dishes should not be washed together. 40
It the two, both used within twenty-four hours and soiled
with fat and milk, are washed together in hot water, they
mutually make each other trejah and must be purified.
This applies only when hot water was spilled directly from
the vessel in which it was heated onto these dishes
(fWKI '530 iny): but had the water been slightly cooled
by being put into the dishpan before the dishes, they would
not become trefak. When one of these dishes is absolutely
unsoiled by milk or grease, it alone becomes trefah, since
it absorbs the food particles from the other, but the soiled
utensil remains fit for use, since there is nothing on the
other dish for it to absorb. 41 When the dishes are washed
in the very pan in which the water was heated, they become
trejah, providing both are soiled and were used within
twenty-four hours. 42 A milk dish found among the meat
dishes in the pantry, or a meat dish found among milk
dishes, is kosher,
as there is no evidence to show that it
88 Ibid.
* Y. D. 64, 7, Ramah.
40 Y. D. 65, 3; Shocked loc. subsection 9.
41 Y. D. 65, 3; Taz ad loc. subsec 12 compromising with Rashal.
42 Y. D. 95, 3; Ramah, and commentators ad loc.