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I ate a salad that had raw onions cut with a fleishig knife. Do I need to wait six hours? 👀
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I ate a salad that had raw onions cut with a fleishig knife. Do I need to wait six hours before eating dairy? Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher recorder of psak and policy, breaks down the answer. Got kashrut questions? Drop them in the comments! 2h
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I ate a salad that had raw onions, and the
onions were cut with a fleishig knife. Now,
the rule is that we consider these onions to
be fleishig. Do I have to wait six hours after
eating these onions (before eating dairy)? the
answer is that you do not have to wait six hours,
and the reason is because there's two primary
reasons why we wait six hours when we eat meat.
One is because of meat getting stuck between the
teeth, Because then when I continue to eat cheese
afterwards or anything dairy, it's like I'm eating
the meat and cheese together Because there's
still meat stuck between my teeth. And the other
reason is because meat has a very strong taste,
and even hours later, you still feel the
taste of the meat in your mouth, therefore,
it feels like you're eating the meat and cheese
together. So for those reasons, you wait. Some
people wait one hour, three hours, six hours, five
and a half hours, whatever the amount is that you
wait. Neither of these reasons apply to an onion.
An onion in this context is what we would refer to
as a tavshil shel basar, meaning it's a food that
was cooked together with meat. In this case, it
wasn't cooked, it was cut with a knife, but it has
the same status as though it was cooked with meat,
and therefore the onion is fleishig, just like
a potato that was cooked with meat is considered
fleishig. So after I eat a potato that was in my
cholent, I wait six hours. It's only a minhag that
we wait six hours in this case, but the poskim say
that this minhag does not apply to the onion that
was cut with the fleishig knife since it was never
even in direct contact with the meat. It only came
in contact with the meat through the knife, so
there's no minhag in this case to even wait six
hours. It's considered too far removed even for
the minhag. And therefore, if a person eats an
onion, even though halachically it's considered
fleishig, you do not have to wait six hours.