Chapter 46: 7-9
Laws Pertaining to Forbidden Foods 7. Surely, precautions should be taken not to eat from one loaf of bread
for both dairy and meat meals. Similarly, separate dishes should be set
aside for salt: one for salt that is used together with meat meals, and
another for dairy meals. At times, food is dipped into the salt and small
particles remain.
8. It is customary to mark the knives used for milk products and,
similarly, other utensils used for dairy, so they do not become
interchanged [with those used for meat].
9. A person who eats meat or a dish cooked with meat may not eat dairy
products for six hours*
* {This is the standard measure accepted universally throughout the
Ashkenazi community. No lesser period has been accepted by any Ashkenazic
Rabbinic authorities.}
A person who chews meat for a baby [even thought he does not partake of it
himself,] must also wait this period. Even though one waited this period,
if one finds particles of meat stuck between one's teeth, one must remove
them [before partaking of dairy]. However, [in such a situation,] one need
not wait any longer; rather one should clean one's mouth and rinse it -
i.e., one should eat bread, which will clean one's mouth, and then one
should rinse one's mouth with water or another liquid.
