Why Can My Pot Be Treif?
Previously we discussed the principle of ta’am lifgam – when the addition of a forbidden food to a mixture makes the mixture taste worse. In such a case, the mixture may be eaten, because while the forbidden food itself, even if it has an off-taste, is forbidden, when we are only dealing with the taste of such food, and not the food itself, this bad taste is not forbidden. As Rashba explains, this is because the taste – ta’am – is in a different category than the food itself. Although we normally say
