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Cooking meat and pareve in the same oven
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I cooked an uncovered pan of chicken in the oven, while roasting a pan of vegetables on the rack above. What is the status of the vegetables?👀 Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher recorder of psak and policy, breaks down the answer. Got kashrut questions? Drop them in the comments!
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I cooked an open pan of chicken in an oven, and I
had a pan of vegetables that were cooking on the
rack right above it. What is the status of those
vegetables? Are they pareve? Are they considered
like they were cooked with meat, and they can't be
eaten with dairy? Do I even have to wait 6 hours
after eating them? It depends. If the chicken is
open, like we said, then the steam will go up and
will get absorbed into the bottom of the pan.
And then from there it gets absorbed into the
vegetables themselves. So, at the very least, we
view the vegetables as being what we call a nat
bar nat, a secondary taste of chicken, in which
case, one should not eat them with dairy. But,
there's a further issue. Which is that because an
oven is considered a closed box by many poskim,
therefore, the steam not only goes underneath
it, but it goes above it and back down into
the vegetables. In which case, the steam is not
just a nat bar nat, it's not just a secondary
taste through the wall of the pan, but it's like
it was cooked together with the steam itself.
Now that steam probably would be a very small
amount. Many poskim say you do not have to wait
6 hours after it. It's not considered that
it will give enough meat taste into your
item that it would require waiting 6 hours.
So, either way, one should not eat these
vegetables with dairy. But in terms of waiting
6 hours, one does not need to wait 6 hours.