Cooking in a Dairy Pot for a Meat Meal or Vice Versa

We do not have pareve pots, and the question is whether we are allowed to cook pareve foods such as potatoes, legumes, salads in a meat pot, and then use them in a dairy meal. Or is it forbidden to do so?

One who cooks a dish for all holiday meals, both meat and dairy, should ideally not cook it in a dairy or meat pot but in a pareve pot, or cook the dish in two pots: in a meat pot for the meat meal, and in a dairy pot for the dairy meal. If he has no other pot and cannot borrow one from a neighbor, and the pot has not been used that day, leniency can be applied for both Ashkenazim and Sephardim. However, if the pot was used that day (dairy or meat was cooked in it within the last 24 hours), only Sephardim have room for leniency. Post facto, meaning after the dish was cooked in a meat pot and one wants to eat it at a dairy meal, or vice versa, if the pot was not used that day (no dairy or meat was cooked in it within the last 24 hours), it is permitted for both Ashkenazim and Sephardim. If the pot was used that day (dairy or meat was cooked in it within the last 24 hours), Sephardim are permitted post facto to eat from it even with actual milk. Ashkenazim are prohibited from eating it with actual dairy, but may eat from it at a dairy meal without actual dairy products. However, care should be taken not to pour directly from the ladle onto the food.

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