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

ANNULMENT OF PROHIBITIONS 105
disgusting element is removed, and only its flavor is left,
the resultant product may be eaten even when the disgusting
substance exceeded half the volume of the mixture
before it was removed. 17
In cases where the increase in
volume due to the disgusting element is so profitable as
to more than offset the loss due to the lowered palatabi-
lity, the disgusting food must be annulled in the usual
fashion. 18
Typical illustrations of disgusting flavors in
mixtures are the flavor of animal fat in wines, or that of
meat in olive oil or honey. 19
The flavor which is extracted from a pot by boiling
hours after another food has
something in it twenty-four
been boiled therein is technically considered
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disgusting.
Therefore, milk accidentally boiled in a pot in which meat
was boiled more than twenty-four hours before may be
drunk, because the meat flavor imparted to it by the vessel
is disgusting. The same holds true in all cases of prohibited
substances. Boiling water freshens the flavor when
applied within twenty-four hours. Hence milk boiled in a
pot in which meat was boiled more than twenty-four hours
before, but in which water was boiled less than twenty-
four hours after the meat and less than the same interval
before the milk, may not be used. 21 Sharp vegetables and
condiments cause an otherwise disgusting flavor to become
pleasing. Hence pepper ground in a trefah mortar
which has been out of use for even a long period of time
is unfit for use. 22
Disgusting things such as flies or insects
should be sieved off if possible, but when their bodies are
" Y. D. ibid
18
Ibid.; Ran, end of Avodah Zarah.
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Avodah Zarah S8a, Y. D. 103, 4.
30 Avodah Zarah ibid.; 4Sb; Y. D. ibid. 5.
31 Y. D. ibid. 6, 7.
33 Y. D. 96, 3, Ramah.