Remember the whole meat-dairy separation? It comes from a verse that says, “You shall not cook a kid in its mother’s milk.” Jewish law expanded that to mean you can’t eat any meat with any dairy. Period.
This affects your whole kitchen. You can’t use the same knife for butter and chicken. You can’t wash a meat plate in a dairy sink. It forces you to be hyper-aware of every ingredient and tool.
And if you mess up? Like accidentally dropping a drop of milk into a meat stew? The pot might become treif (non-kosher). Fixing it can be a huge process involving boiling water and blowtorches. Yikes.
