[Little Ray]

Jewish law also forbids cheeseburgers based on an incredibly over-zealous interpretation of a law about not cooking a calf in its mother's milk. This requires the kosher kitchen to have two complete sets cooking utensils. If you ask me, that is taking things just a bit far.

I'm just glad God gave Paul a dispensation on Gentile food!

[Fiji Hill]

Jewish law also forbids cheeseburgers based on an incredibly over-zealous interpretation of a law about not cooking a calf in its mother's milk.

How could that be? The cheese and the meat come from different breeds of cattle--the cheese from Holsteins and Jerseys and the meat from Herefords, long horns, etc.

[MarkL]

Jewish law also forbids cheeseburgers based on an incredibly over-zealous interpretation of a law about not cooking a calf in its mother's milk. This requires the kosher kitchen to have two complete sets cooking utensils. If you ask me, that is taking things just a bit far.

The regulation has been "simplified" into not being able to mix meat and dairy, and that there's a class of foods being "parve," meaning that they can be eaten with either meat or dairy.

Here's something that's always baffled me though...Given the above statement of not "cooking a calf in its mother's milk," why is it that you CAN fry chicken using eggs in the batter, yet you can't add milk to the batter, even though chickens do not give milk, since chicken is classified as "meat."

Just something that I wondered since childhood.

Mark