If kitchen rags or cloth oven mits have been used in a non-kosher kitchen, may they be used in a kosher kitchen after they are laundered? Or do they become non-kosher (for example, from contact with a hot non-kosher stove or hot non-kosher food) and require kashering? If so, how does one kasher cloth? Does it make a difference if the oven mits have some rubber or plastic on them, as opposed to being made solely of cloth?
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dupe? judaism.stackexchange.com/q/35506/759– Double AA ♦Sep 7, 2014 at 18:15
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1@DoubleAA, yes, IMO, but this one is more complete (also asks about kashering) and answered, so I suggest we close the other.– msh210 ♦Sep 8, 2014 at 18:32
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1I asked a similar question once with the rabbinic response of: "it's fine as long as you dont eat your tablecloth"– bondonkSep 10, 2014 at 10:38
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I am going to take the liberty of assuming rags and oven mitts are not any different than table cloths.
I asked the Star-K about kashering table cloths for Pesach, and was told that a table cloth can become "treif" and becomes pareve by putting it through the laundry machine.
I imagine the same would apply to any cloth or similar material.
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2Oven mitts touch keilim that are kli rison al haesh. (I don't know if that matters, but it seems like a possibly relevant distinction.)– Double AA ♦Mar 4, 2016 at 16:11