QUESTION

Chicago, IL

Any recommendations for an Ashkenazi Jew whose roommate is a Kitniyot eating Sephardi vegan viz. pots and pans and dishes etc.?

ANSWER

Yes, it’s totally fine. Kitniyot are bateil berov – Shulchan Arukh OC 453:1 and Mishnah Berurah 453:9. As such, we can assume that there is rov of the actual food being cooked against what it absorbed. Admittedly, this can be questioned:

1. Maybe with all the ways we go to extremes to assume that the pot absorbed its entire volume (or the amount of food being cooked, whichever is less), we should assume that there might not be rov against the food absorbed