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Kashering Teflon

1 05, 2023

Kashering Teflon

May 1st, 2023|Kashrut|

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QUESTION

New York

Someone purchased a new T-Fal frying pan and used it once and left it to wash. After some time, she could not remember if she used it for turkey meat Sloppy Joe’s or dairy French toast and scrambled eggs. How should she treat it going forward? Can it be kashered?

ANSWER

Rav Moshe’s position is that teflon can be kashered—see Igros Moshe EH 4:7, and a good number of poskim agree—and I feel that that is a position that can be followed without hesitation (especially since once it is eino ben

10 01, 2021

Staying in a Hotel Next to a Hospital

January 10th, 2021|Kashrut, Mezuzah, Yoreh De'ah|

QUESTION

Los Angeles, CA

A woman, for a medical procedure, is temporarily staying at the hotel connected to the hospital.

A. They brought a mezuzah, but were told not to put it on the outside of the doorpost. Can they put it on the inside of the lintel, so that it’s not beyond the hotel door, but is still on the lintel?

B. There are pots and pans in their room that they’d like to use. Libun seems like it’s probably

25 12, 2020

Kashering a Frying Pan

December 25th, 2020|Kashrut, Yoreh De'ah|

QUESTION

Washington, D.C.

Can a treif chicken grilled directly on a kosher frying pan with no oil or anything be kashered?

ANSWER

It may be kashered with ליבון חמור.

There is a debate in the poskim as to what level of heat is required for ליבון חמור. According to some, it is sufficient that the pan be heated to the same temperature that it was when it absorbed the issur – based on the principle that “as it absorbed (the forbidden food), so it spits it out.”

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