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After eating a meat meal we may not eat dairy for dessert. Thankfully there are many non dairy replacement products (such as kosher oat, almond or soy milk) that can be used to prepare dairy free desserts to enjoy after a meat meal.
I understand that the Torah tells us that you are not supposed to eat meat and dairy together, but why can’t I have a dairy dessert after I already finished eating my steak? What’s up with the six-hour buffer zone, and why is there no six-hour break between dairy and meat?
- Yehuda Shurpin
To ensure that meat and milk not be eaten together in any way, it is customary to wait a certain amount of time between meals. After eating meat, the wait time varies, but the generally accepted amount of time to wait is six hours.
- Lise Stern
Jan 18, 2008 · Any food made with these foods is considered “meaty,” or fleishig (Yiddish). Even a small amount of meat in a food can cause it to be fleishig. All these products must come from a kosher animal, properly slaughtered and prepared according to the dietary laws. Dairy. All foods derived from or containing milk are considered dairy, or milchig ...
Prominent rabbis of the Middle Ages insisted that milk should not be placed on a table where people are eating meat, to avoid accidentally consuming milk while eating meat, and vice versa.
The Gemara (Chullin 105a) mentions that Mar Ukvah said that he would not eat milk and meat in the same meal; however, he would eat a dairy meal following a meat meal. The Rambam and others understand that Mar Ukveh was dictating how much time one must wait between meat and milk.
May 29, 2018 · pareve (parve) Jewish term for dishes containing neither milk nor meat. Orthodox Jewish law prohibits mixing of milk and meat foods or the consumption of milk products for 3 hours after a meat meal. See also milchig; fleishig.
