If I cut a spicy jalapeño pepper with a meat knife and eat it, can I eat dairy afterward, or am I fleishig?
Am I Fleishig After Eating a Jalapeño Cut With a Meat Knife?
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You are not fleishig.
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The Rema in Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 89:3 writes that the custom is not to eat cheese even after a cooked dish containing meat. However, if there is no meat in the dish and it was only cooked in a meat pot, one may eat cheese afterward, and there is no custom to be stringent about this. A pareve food that only picked up meat taste from a utensil does not make a person fleishig. The jalapeño cut with a meat knife is in the same category: it may carry meat taste, but it is not meat, so you are not fleishig.
- Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 89:3 (Rema) — a food cooked in a meat pot with no actual meat in it may be followed by cheese, and there is no custom to be stringent
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Rabbi Shay Tahan
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