Milk & Meat - Pareve in a Meat Pot

QUESTION: I ate pareve food that was cooked in a meat pot. The pot had been used to cook meat during the past 24 hours. Am I now required to wait six hours?

ANSWER: No. This taste is weak and is not strong enough to make one fleishig, therefore, after eating this pareve food item, it is permissible to eat dairy. However, there is a dispute whether the faint meat taste in the pareve food is strong enough to make it inappropriate to eat the pareve food with dairy at the same time, and vice versa (i.e. may one eat a pareve item which was cooked in a dairy pot with meat). Sephardic custom permits this, while Ashkenazic tradition is not to allow this. (This discussion relates to a meat pot that was used to cook meat within the last 24 hours. If 24 hours elapsed, even Ashkenazim would be lenient, though poskim debate whether this allowance is only bidieved once the food is cooked, or is it even permissible lichatchila to cook the food with the intention of consuming it with dairy.)

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