Q&A: A Meal Offering on a Pan
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A Meal Offering on a Pan
Question
I found among the Passover utensils
1.
A pan that I don’t know whether it was used for dairy, meat, or parve,
but it was last used more than twelve months ago.
What should I do?
2.
I found new utensils that were probably immersed in a mikveh, because if not I would usually write that they were not immersed. Can I rely on the assumption that they were most likely immersed?
3.
I found a knife 🔪 that I don’t know what it was used for—dairy, meat, or parve. I poured boiling water on it.
Can I now use it for whatever I want?
Answer
- Clean it well with a substance that ruins the taste absorbed in it (which is already spoiled anyway). After that, heat it on the fire until a match would ignite on it—that is light libun.
- This is not a question of Jewish law but a factual one. I don’t know you, so only you can answer that.
- Kasher it by hagalah in a vessel full of boiling water. Then you may use it for whatever you want, including from weekday use to Passover use.