Milk and Meat in the Kitchen: Difference between revisions

# One can use the same cup to drink a parve drink while one is eating meat or milk as long as one wipes one's lips before drinking so that a fat residue doesn't stick to the lip of the cup.<ref>Aruch Hashulchan 88:11</ref>

# Some say that there's a minhag to have separate dairy and meat drinking cups.<ref>Badei Hashulchan 89:110</ref>

# One shouldn't use a knife that was used to cut a dairy food to cut bread that one is planning to eat with meat. The same is true of the opposite case. The reason is because we're worried that a knife in general has a bit of fat stuck onto it.<ref>Rashba teshuva writes that one shouldn't use a dairy knife to cut meat or bread that one is going to eat with meat. He explains that a knife generally has smeared fat or grease stuck to it. Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 89:4 codifies this Rashba.</ref>

# One shouldn't use a knife that was used to cut a meat food to cut a dairy food or the opposite.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 89:4</ref>