Fleishige Cooked Food ["Tavshil shel Bosor"]
29. Potato from a cholent. Just a potato without any meat or cholent liquid has the status of a fleishige cooked food [“tavshil shel bosor”]. According to the Mechaber, one does not need to wait six hours after eating it, but he must wash his hands before eating cheese (שו"ע יו"ד סי' פ"ט ס"ג ). According to the Ramo, one must wait six hours; this is the Ashkenazi minhag (רמ"א שם ) and also the Sefardic minhag (ב’'י או''ח סי' קע''ג, כף החיים סי' פ''ט סק''נ ).
30. Tasted fleishige cooked food. If one only tasted a fleishige cooked food without swallowing it, he does not need to wait six hours (מו"ר כ"ק מרן גאב"ד ירושלים ).
31. Meat soup. The poskim argue whether clear liquid broth of a meat or chicken soup without any meat pieces has the status of actual meat (ב"י הובא בט"ז ) or a fleishige cooked food (יש"ש פ"ח ס"ה הובא בט"ז שם ). As mentioned above, according to the Ramo, one would have to wait six hours regardless.
Fleishige Pot
32. If something parve was cooked in a fleishige pot, even if the pot was a ben yomo, i.e., fleishigs was cooked in it within the past 24 hours, as long as the pot was clean when it was used for the parve food, one can eat milchigs immediately after eating it (רמ"א שם ).
Dirty Pot
33. Vegetable soup after cooking meat. If a pot was used to cook meat and then emptied, but not rinsed well enough to get rid of all the residual oil and fat from the meat, and then something parve – e.g., a vegetable soup – was cooked in it, one does not need to wait six hours after eating the soup to eat milchigs (ש"ך יו"ד סי' פ"ט סקי"ט ).
34. However, some poskim hold that one does not need to wait six hours only if the volume of the soup was at least 60 times that of the fleishige residue (א"ר או"ח סי' קע"ג ) or if there is definitely no fleishige taste detectable in the soup (יד יהודה שם ). Others say this heter applies even if there was not 60 times as much soup as there was fleishige residue (יד יהודה ארוך סק"ה בדעת הש"ך, ערוה"ש סי' פ"ט סקי"ג ). The reason for this is because the person had no intention whatsoever for fleishige residue to remain and give flavor to the parve dish, just he wanted to use the pot again and did not exert himself to rinse it thoroughly enough; in such a case, Chazal did not forbid a person to eat cheese immediately afterward (יד יהודה שם ).
Oil Used to Fry Shnitzel and then Fries/Chips
35. If shnitzel was fried in oil and then the shnitzel was removed and the same oil was used to fry chips, does one need to wait six hours after eating just the chips? Some want to say there is no need to wait six hours since it is like the case of the pot with fleishige residue (above, 33), and the halochoh in that case is that one does not need to wait six hours since he had no intention for the residue to give fleishige flavor to the parve dish. Here too, they say, there was no intention for the shnitzel to give flavor to the chips.
36. However, this is incorrect. This case is more like a soup that was cooked with chicken inside, where the halochoh is that one must wait six hours after eating just broth (above, 31). The oil has the status of a fleishige cooked food, and each piece of potato is saturated with that oil. One must therefore wait six hours afterward. This is not like the pot with residue – in that case, all the person wanted to do was use the pot; the residue is botul due to its miniscule size and insignificance, and it is as if it is not there. Additionally, the halochoh about the pot is a chiddush; it cannot be extended to a case of eating an actual fleishige cooked food. Almost all the poskim take this approach (נועם הלכה סי' ב' הע' ס"ז, הגר"ח קנייבסקי, הגר"ע אויערבאך ועוד ).
37. Restaurants. When buying something like fries/chips in a meaty restaurant, be aware that it could very well be they were fried in the same oil that shnitzel was fried in previously. Therefore, one should not eat milchigs afterward for six hours.
Latkes Sitting in Shnitzel Oil
38. Question: If someone fried shnitzel in a frying pan, took them out and put them in an aluminum pan, removed them from the pan, leaving behind some oil from the shnitzel at the bottom of the pan, and then put latkes in the same pan, in the leftover oil from the shnitzel, would one need to wait six hours after eating those latkes?
39. Answer: One must wait six hours. When he ate the latkes, he also ate the oil from the shnitzel that was on the bottom of the latkes. Just like one would need to wait six hours if he rubbed his finger on the bottom of the pan and ate the oil from his finger, he needs to wait six hours after eating the oil that was intact on the bottom of the latkes. This is not at all comparable to a pot with fleishige residue (above, 33) – in that case, the residue was mixed into the parve dish and botul, not intact.
