Q. I put some chicken at the bottom of a pot with veggies on top. Are the vegetables that got steamed but did not touch the chicken enough to make me fleshing?

If I separate them with a plate, or if I put the plate on top of the pot is it still the same? How about plastic plates?

A. It stands to reason that if the veggies are inside the pot with the meat, even if they are separated by a plate, they would become fleishig, as the meat vapour ans steam rises over the sides of the plate.

However, Horav Dovid Pam Shlit’a maintains that even inside the pot, the steam rises strait up and does not affect the veggies.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the question is complicated by the many variants possible such as the temperature and strength of boiling, the size of the pot and the period of time of contact.

Therefore a competent Rov should observe the act itself in order to give a correct answer.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a