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posted by Shira Salamone at 11:58 PM
Once upon a time, I belonged to a left-wing egalitarian Conservative synagogue, where I was one of a number of women who wore a tallit—and one of the few members who used an Orthodox prayer book (adding the Mothers, of course). Having moved since then, I now belong to a right-wing traditional Conservative synagogue, where I’m almost always the only woman wearing a tallit—and one of the few members who adds the Mothers. I seem destined to be forever . . . on the fringe.
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so kasher it. Clean the mess up, then take a microwave safe cup, fill it to the top with water, and boil it in the microwave until boiling. Boom, kashered and parve again.
Will do, if necessary. Actually, we usually do our parve and meat/fleishig/b'sari cooking on the stovetop, in the oven, and in the broiler, and only rarely kasher the microwave for parve or fleishig use, because most of the microwave-proof cookware that we have is either milshig/dairy or fleishig/meat, and we can't be bothered getting new cookware.
Also: wait 24h before kashering.
Was the cheese actually hot when it hit the turnable? If it was a spill and it wasn't hot, it should be fine. (ie not milchigifying the turnable)
RivkaYael, thanks for the 24-hour-wait reminder. I haven't quite mastered that part of kashering.
I'm pretty sure that the spill took place as the baked ziti was heating up, so I think it's a good bet that the cheese was hot. :( If we wait 24 hours, then kasher, can we still switch from one class of food to another (e.g. milchig to fleishig), and/or can we use the turntable with a paper towel on it and/or by double-wrapping the food?
The reason why I asked was that I have exploded fleishig cholent in the microwave before--I was right there, so I touched the turnable and the walls and surprisingly they were not hot. It's the mechanics of fluid expansion caused by microwaving that does this, ask your son :).
Here's what my husband and I do: we place milchig and fleishig keilim on a piece of paper/plastic to guard against spills actually cooking on the turnable. We cover actual milchigs/fleishigs (we don't double wrap), but do not cover parve things in milchig/fleshig keilim. This is because we are trying to prevent actual milchig/fleishig steam or splashes from being absorbed into the microwave.
As for the turnable, if you suspect that hot ziti was cooked on it, (I) would kasher it by irui, not by steaming it. It's this principle called "kibolo kach polto"--how taste is absorbed, it's also discharged. Some might even suggest that if there were actual cooking on the turnable, it cannot be kashered. However you can just cover the bases of all your keilim with plastic wrap so that it doesn't come in contact with the turnable.
You should check with your LOR (because obviously, I'm not a rabbi).
irui: boiling water and pouring it onto a surface. You'd also kasher a sink like that. Email me for particulars on sinks--the rema and shulchan aruch are tons more lenient that common practice.
Dontcha hate it when you come up on something they didn't cover in the Talmud or Shulchan Aruch? ;-)
RivkaYael, thanks for the instructions. I wouldn't have thought to pour boiling water on the turntable. In the future, we'll have to remember to cover it with plastic wrap.
Techlet, thanks for the grin. :)
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