Permissibility of Pizza Oven Grill Combo

October 5th, 2020|Kashrut, Yoreh De'ah|

QUESTION

Riverdale, NY

A friend of mine built a combination pizza oven grill. Regarding zei’ah, is pizza a solid? Is melted pizza liquid? Is the grill milkhig? Can he grill meat on the grill? Pizza in the lower oven?

There is a vent connecting the top of the pizza oven to the bottom of the grill. It’s open at least some of the time that pizza is in there, I guess to get some heat out of the pizza oven.

There’s no meat going in while there’s pizza in