What happens to non-stick cookware if a non-Jewish woman used it to cook an egg without my involvement? Can non-stick coated cookware be kashered, as I heard it cannot?
Kashering a Non-Stick Pan After a Non-Jew Cooked an Egg in It
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Do hagalah, and the same applies to non-stick coated cookware.
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The Shulchan Aruch rules that an egg is forbidden if a non-Jew cooked it, even though it can be swallowed raw. So a pan in which a non-Jewish woman cooked an egg falls under bishul akum. The Shulchan Aruch also rules that vessels in which a non-Jew cooked food subject to bishul akum need kashering. It adds that even a clay vessel, which normally cannot be kashered, is fixed by hagalah done three times. The reason given is that this prohibition has no basis in Torah law. That leniency fits the Rav’s ruling that hagalah is enough here.
- Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 113:14 — an egg cooked by a non-Jew is forbidden even though it may be swallowed raw
- Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 113:16 — vessels in which a non-Jew cooked food subject to bishul akum need kashering; even a clay vessel only needs hagalah three times, because the prohibition is rabbinic
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Rabbi Shay Tahan
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