Is it permissible to cook in an oven that was previously used to cook pork, given the impossibility of removing all the grease stuck to it and the difficulty of replacing it?
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"Grease melts with heating and becomes easy to clean. With the presence of degreasers, the oven can be thoroughly cleaned and then washed with water to purify it, making its use permissible. It is like the vessels of the People of the Book, which are purified by washing. The proof for this is the of Abu Tha'labah Al-Khushani regarding the washing of their vessels if no others are available. This prohibition from using them is understood as being disliked () rather than forbidden (), and the reason for it is revulsion."
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