04 Nov KASHRUS QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK WITH RABBI MOSHE ELEFANT

What’s the status of a pareve soup cooked in a
pareve bowl in a Fleishig microwave?
It’s still pareve but cannot be eaten together with
milk. For example, if someone cooks spaghetti in
a clean dairy pot, it cannot be
eaten WITH meatballs but can
be eaten AFTER meatballs.
May one use a microwave for
both Milchig and Fleishig?
There are two issues: one is the
issue of Kashuring. If it became
fleishig/milchig you have to
kashur it before you turn it into
the other status. Then there’s another issue the Magen Avraham
teaches us that one should not have one set of silverware at
home that he goes back and forth from Milchig to Fleishig even if
he’s going to Kashur them. There is the concern that you’ll forget
to kashur them or won’t kashur them properly. Using the same
microwave has the same problem. If you want to go back and

forth in the same
microwave, it’s
no different than
the case with the
silverware, which
you shouldn’t do.
A stove doesn’t
need to be
Kashured. You can
use the stove back
and forth without
Kashuring, but a microwave needs to be Kashured.
Is there such a thing as a mezonos bagel?
The OU as a matter of policy does not believe that there is such
a thing. Rabbi Belskey zt”l was very sensitive to mezonos bagels
and he told us many times that Halachically there is no such
thing as a mezonos bagel because A) people still eat it as a meal
and B) if it looks like a bagel and tastes like a bagel, it’s a bagel,
no matter what juice was used. So we do not certify anything as
a mezonos bagel.