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A Sharp Food Item
1. A food item does
not usually receive
the absorbed taste
of a utensil when
used cold and not in
a hot, or cooking
situation.
2. The exception to
this is a knife when
pressed against a
sharp food item i.e.
radish, onions. This
will transfer the
taste into the
onion, etc. example:
if one cuts an onion
with a meat knife
the onion is
considered "fleishik".
3. This is a result
of the combination
of the force of the
knife and the
sharpness of the
food. In fact, this
also overrides two
major rules of
kashrus.
a. Usually a utensil
not used for 24
hours loses its
effectiveness, i.e.
the taste becomes
"stale". Here
however, we say the
sharpness revives
the "stale" taste
and presents a
problem even after
24 hours.
b. Usually the fact
that the meat taste
has gone through two
transfers and has
not combined with
milk weakens its
ability to cause an
item to be fleishik
but here we consider
it as the original
taste.
4. We therefore may
not eat the onion
with dairy. The
same, of course,
applies in the
reverse.
5. If the onion was
cooked with a dairy
item, the Halacha
depends on the
proportions.
6. The Chochmas Odom
introduces a
variation of the
Halacha If one cuts
an onion with a
parve knife against
a "fleishik"
utensil, the onion
becomes "fleishik".
This, of course, is
a variation of the
original Halacha in
which case the taste
originated from the
knife.
7. In the following
three situations
there is a
controversy in the
poskim as to the
Halacha
a. If the onion
which received the
meat taste was
cooked with a parve
item which, in turn
was mixed into
dairy, does this
present a problem or
not? In this case,
there are 3
transfers 1) meat
into the knife 2)
from the knife into
the onion 3) from
the onion into the
parve item.
b. An onion was
chopped with a
fleishik knife and
placed into a parve
blender or food
processor - does the
onion emit the taste
into the utensil
similar to its
ability to absorb
from the knife, or
is this case
different?
c. The fleishik
onion was cooked in
a dairy utensil.
What is the halachic
status of the onion
and the utensil?
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