Switching Pesach China Dishes Not Used for 12 Months from Meat to Dairy
QUESTION
Jerusalem, IL
A family that uses their (flieshig) grandparent’s Pesach china has gone vegetarian. They would like to turn the china dairy. Obviously, they haven’t been used since last Pesach. Any room for to allow this?
ANSWER
Yes they can. They should kasher through iruy and – when it comes to the tureen and serving dishes and possibly the soup bowls (see below), they should ideally wait 12 months from last fleishig use, which means the Pesach after this. The reason to allow this is:
1. We are only going from fleishig to milkhig, so what is balua (absorbed) is taam heter (permissible flavour) […]