WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS STEAK?
Perhaps it is the butter on the potato. The Torah does not prohibit the eating of milk and meat products together in a general way that would cover the buttered potato. (See the explanation about the cheeseburger.) However, many do not like to eat butter in the same meal as beef.
The rareness of the steak may be the bigger issue:
You must not, however, eat flesh
with its life-blood in it.
You shall not eat anything with
its blood.
Do you enjoy rare meat? If you observe this mitzva, how well-cooked does something have to be before you will eat it? Do the recent heath problems with dangerous E. coli bacteria contaminating undercooked meat affect your attitudes towards Kashrut?
2/16/98
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