#119 - Working as a Chef in a non-Kosher Kitchen

Question

If someone gets a job working as a chef can they cook meat and milk

together if its not being eaten by the person, only others and assuming

that the others arent Jewish.

Answer

It is prohibited to cook meat and milk even if the resulting product

will not be consumed at all, as in an analytical lab test, or if it will

only used for animal feed. (Yalkut Yosef 3 pg.197). Our tradition is to

prohibit cooking non-kosher nevaila meat (that did not undergo proper

shechita), However, this does not apply to meat from a non-kosher

species. (see Shulchan Aruch YD 8,3 and 4 – Taz and Shach ibid.)

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a

Answered by: Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a

Published: November 4, 2011

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