EXOD896 Do not cook meat in milk. The prohibition on eating milk and meat together does not appear to be based on health considerations. Rather, the Torah does not want meat and milk to be cooked together, for as we wrote above (mitzvah 62 [i.e., Exodus 22:17--AJL) regarding sorcery, certain mixtures and combinations are prohibited simply because they run counter to Hashem's Will. The Almighty wants everything in [the] world to operate according to the laws of nature that He instituted when He brought Creation into being. The Torah does not allow the combination of milk and meat, so cooking the two together is forbidden, even if no one consumes the mixture.