Reply To: Cooking in Basar Bchalav microwave

So this is what my brother and I were thinking.

Firstly, what are the potential issues: Cooking Basar b’chalav, and being neheneh from basar b’chalav. So are those assur, imagining this was a real pot?

So we were looking at a few things.

Is there any issur of cooking or hanaah by basar neveila? We can probably assume it is only basar neveilah in the walls.

So ???? ????? 87:6 seems like it is assur to cook, but we can be meikel on the issur hanaa for hefsed. But this is not a hefsed case.

So then we looked at the Rema 87:4 by the head scratching water case, where he says you aren’t allowed to use the pot to cook food in, but you can do the head scratching water. taz 20 explains that it isn’t issurei hanaa because it isn’t food.

How does that apply here? The issur there was eating, not an issur of cooking. So can we say you are allowed to cook? And allowed to be neheneh?

So then we looked at 94:3, shach and taz there, discussing if you cook in an eino ben yomo basar b’chalav pot, if you have to throw the money of the pot into the sea.

And can I guess that if you need to do that b’dieved, that you aren’t allowed to use it l’chatchila? So that implies that it is a problem of issurei hanaah.

But is that consistent with the headscratching case, where you are using the pot? (Meaning, even though taz there said it is no issurei hanaa because not food, I imagined he meant the blius getting into your water was not hanaa because not eating it. But now, we are saying value of pot needs to be thrown in sea, so that implies the problem is using the pot itself.)

Then we started wondering if microwave has blius anyway of basar bcholov, because the walls aren’t hot, so it never got cooked together.

Then we told sister to call a posek, who said it was muttar, without explaining.