Talmud for Pesachim 88:15

ורבי עקיבא כדרב חייא בריה דרב הונא דאמר לא אסרה תורה אלא בקדירה בת יומא הלכך לאו נותן טעם לפגם הוא

- Rather he learns it from the vessels of Gentiles.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'the exudings (from the vessels) of Gentiles', i.e., vessels in which Gentiles cooked food. These must be purged with boiling water (this is called hage'alah) before they may be used, because they exude a flavour of the food which was boiled in them.');">¹⁷</span> The vessels of Gentiles, is it no merely a flavour [which they impart]?

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