QUESTION

Midwest, USA

Can you use small amounts of fish sauce to cook a meat dish? The amount will be bateil beshishim.

ANSWER

In a case such as yours where there will be less than 1/60 of the fish sauce to the meat, one can approach this two ways. The first is to look at this as we would look at a normal kashrut scenario. From this perspective, the analogy would be a case where one were adding less than 1/60 of milk to meat –