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Can I use my leftover challah to make dairy French toast?
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Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher recorder of psak and policy, breaks down the answer. Got kashrut questions? Drop them in the comments! #kosher #halacha #kashrut #oukosher #kosherfood #jewisheducation
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Can I use my leftover Challah to make dairy French
toast? So there's really two questions about the
Challah. Let's talk about in terms of how it
was baked. If it was baked in a fleishig oven,
which means if I baked it at the same time as
I bake chicken, meat, anything else like that
uncovered, the Challah now is certainly Fleishig
because the steam from the other items will make
the Challah Fleishig, and certainly it cannot be
served with dairy. If it was baked in a oven that
had previously baked meat, but it was not kashered
out, now it would depend if the oven was clean or
not. If it had spills of meat in it, you turn on
the oven you could still smell the aroma of meat,
the Challah also should not be served with
dairy. It's still considered a Fleishig oven
until you clean it out, and then it should be
preferably even kashered, then you could bake
the Challah and would be pareve. If you bought
it from a supermarket, you know, from a bakery,
you could assume that it's pareve. Then the
question is only going to be, how was it served
at the meal? If you brought it out to the meal
but then you removed the Challah from the table
before the meat was served, so then obviously the
Challah is still pareve and it could be made into
dairy French toast. If you left it out on the
table while the meat was being served, Rav Moshe
Feinstein makes a distinction between the
bread that's in the center of the table that
stays either uncut on the cutting board or in the
Challah basket, and there he assumes that nobody
is just putting their greasy hands all over what's
meant for other people to eat, and therefore that
bread technically remains pareve. The bread that
you remove from the basket, A child took a piece
of Challah and they had it next to their plate,
even if they didn't eat it, that Challah would
be considered Fleishig. Rav Moshe, however
says that even though bread in the basket
that was at the table with the meat and remains
pareve, it is considered praiseworthy though to
consider it Fleishig. So strictly speaking one
could, but it would be praiseworthy not to.