Responsa for Pesachim 60:6
אמר רב הונא בריה דרב יהושע עץ פרור מגעילו ברותחין ובכלי ראשון קסבר כבולעו כך פולטו
But the law is: both the one and the other<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the handle and the blade');"><sup>8</sup></span> [need only be put] into boiling water, and in a 'first' vessel.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A 'first' vessel means the vessel in which the water was boiled, while it is still at boiling point; a 'second' vessel is that into which the water is poured from the 'first'.');"><sup>9</sup></span> R'Huna the son of R'Joshua said: A wooden pot ladle must be purified<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hag'alah is the technical term for ridding a utensil of the forbidden matter which it has absorbed.');"><sup>10</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
A. This bread may not be eaten, lest perchance one eat it with milk. However, it may be sold to a Gentile, since in a Rabbinical prohibition we do not take into consideration the remote possibility that the Gentile will resell the bread to a Jew.
This Responsum is addressed to R. Tobiah.
SOURCES: Am I, 77.
Teshuvot Maharam
A. No, but they may be filled with water and the water heated to the boiling point to render them fit for Passover use.
SOURCES: Pr. 439.