[Avodah] Can anyone think of a Rov who would advocate this in a Halacha Shiur?

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 07:51:39PM +1100, Meir Rabi wrote:
: Does this Halacha not puzzle us?
...
: Y Deah 92:8
: It is Muttar to hang meat above boiling pots of milk provided the steam
: reaching the meat is less than YSoledes...

A related pesaq I actually got, with similar results from two co
workers' LORs...

One of my co workers wondered how can you use the hot water machine
at work? What about the steam from treif soups and hot chocolate (the
company-provided hot chocolate has marshmallows)?

Now admittedly, this isn't about meat directly, it's about whether
the spigot, a keli, would become treif.

: Acharonim demand that the meat be scrubbed but this is not the intent of the
: Rema who is Mattir. We are NOT permitted to dip meat in warm butter and then
: wash it down, besides the Lashon of the Rema does not support such
: additional safeguards.
...
: Most surprising about this Halacha is that the condensate from the boiling
: milk, which although less than YSoledes, is certainly reaching and
: condensing on the meat, is deemed to be of no Kashrus consequence.

I would bet we wash the meat not to kasher the meat, but to make sure
we don't put any milk condensation into a pot with the meat and then
cook it. *Bedi'eved* I would guess it would be batul, but lekhat-chilah,
why not wash it down?

I do not think the Rama is assuming the condensate may be ignored
lechat-khilah, and was only writing about whether the entire meat would
now qualify as basar bechalav.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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