QUESTION

Someone used non-hekhshered butter in making macaroni and cheese. They want to know if the pot and spoon is treif. The only ingredients in the butter is cream and salt. My understanding is that butter with whey could potentially be problematic because it comes from cheese making. I would assume that given

• one could make an argument that the cheese itself actually is kosher
• this may not come from whey
• all of this may be batel

that this isn’t really a