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Another day at the office, they say. Just received the following question from a student today. Read my answer below. Dear Rabbi, As you know, I am not currently Jewish, and am pursuing conversion. My family belong to a religion which worships idols, and they really want me to bow and pray to the idols [...]

Q: So I’ve been working towards keeping kosher for awhile, and now I’m at a point where I basically only eat kosher food, but I don’t have two sets of kosher dishes. My question is: if I buy new pots and pans but I don’t kosher my stove/ oven is the food I eat kosher, or at least more kosher then it was before? Also… will I have to go out and buy new pots and pans because the old ones will be considered treif because I used them on an un-koshered stove?

A: You ask a complicated question, as the laws of kashrut are vast and complex.