I've heard of cases where a Sephardic family, for whom rice is totally kosher for Passover (assuming it's checked and contains no additives etc.), cooked rice in a pot. The next day, they invite their Ashkenazic neighbors over and cook completely kitniyot-free, but their Ashkenazic neighbors say it's a problem as even potatoes cooked in that "kitniyot" pot is a problem.
Am I getting this correct so far?
If so, is there any halachic basis to this, or is it "just one of those Passover customs"?
This should, in theory, be far better than a case of a non-kosher pot; by some quick back-of-envelope math, for any normal pot I can think of, the ratio of volume-of-the-pot-material-itself against volume-contained-within-the-pot should be far less than 50%.
Answer
Those that cited OC 453 are correct: the Mishna Berura in Se'if Katan 8 states clearly that if rice was found in soup, just throw out the rice, and you may eat the soup. The same applies for a pot that was used to cook kitnios for a child that must have kitnios on Pesach. Whether lechatchila you may use the pot is debatable. The Feinsteins hold that one should not use the pot lechatchila, but if it has been used, one may eat the food lechatchila.
I would hesitate to cite Sfardic poskim on this issue. Some denigrate the Ashkenazic minhag of kitniyos and therefore rely on mattirim that we would not necessarily consider.
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