Pots and pans can be kosherize/purged. What about food? According to Shulchan Aruch and Kaf HaChaim who rule like Rabbaynu Ephraim that there is no chanann by shar issurim, this question is relevant. It is possible to purge a food that has absorbed a prohibited substance? For example, a 59 gram kosher hamburg was cooked with a gram of lard. R’ Ephraim views the lard as a mere absorption and only the gram requires nullification. Then the hamburger is cooked with other meat and there is 60 times the lard. Does the hamburger return to its original kosher status? (This question is not applicable to Rema who rules that the hamburger becomes completely transformed and it is as if there are 60 grams of lard.) We will also address, if a kosher food can be completely purged from an absorption of milk.
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