Question: I’d like to set my water heater below yad soledes to avoid questions when the cleaning help or kids wash dishes. We try to make sure they are careful… Read more »
Category: Cooking on Shabbat
heating foods that have some liquid
Question: how much moisture or liquids may be on a food when heating up [permissibly] on shabbos must it be totally dry/ a little moisture/ some oil and dressing /… Read more »
Heating up cold dry food on Shabbat
Question: Can Sephardim warm up cold pasta with sauce on Shabbat over a blech (metal sheet used to cover stovetop burners) if it was fully cooked on Erev Shabbat? Answer:… Read more »
using artificial sweeteners on Shabbat
Question: L’kvod HaRav, I know that we must be careful regarding the adding of spices to hot food on Shabbat and I was taught that certain items (like salt) can… Read more »
Wrapping a perculator for Shabbat
Question: Are you allowed to wrap a perculator with a towel BEFORE Shabbat to keep the water very hot? Answer: A percolater can not be fully wrapped even from before… Read more »
Can I use a plata that has a temperature control knob?
Question: My hotplate broke and the replacement one that they sent me has a temperature control knob. Is it ok to use the plata? Do I need to cover the… Read more »
Jewish person staying in non-Jewish home over Shabbat
Question: Hello, My step daughter, who’s mother is Jewish and Father non-Jewish is coming to stay over Christmas which she usually does. This past year she has decided to live… Read more »
Making more than one cup of coffee on Shabbos
Question: When I make more than one cup of coffee on Shabbos, I just refill the same cup and pour it into the new cup and don’t clean out the… Read more »
Warming cooked meat on Shabbat
Question: Can cooked salt beef which has no liquid and is vacuum sealed be warmed on Shabbat morning in water that was put on a belch before Shabbat. BTW I… Read more »
Cleaning blech on shabbos
Question: If chulent spilled onto a blech on shabbos and we are afraid of it burning or strarting a grease fire can one shpritz Windex on to it to clean… Read more »
Shabbos urn response
Question: Please ignore my last question. I made a few mistakes. My only question would be that it would seem that the buttons on the urn should be covered to… Read more »
Response to shabbos urn
Question: Shalom, in response to the question ” Can I plug my Shabbat urn into a timer so that it will go off late Friday night and come on again… Read more »
shabbat urn
Question: Can I plug my Shabbat urn into a timer so that it will go off late Friday night and come on again on Shabbat. The water will be fully… Read more »
Hot meat on Humus
Question: Shalom, Is there any problem in doing the following on shabbat? Pouring cold store-bought humus onto a plate and then putting on top of that hot/warm mince meat that… Read more »
baked chicken if it’s considered bishul
Question: The question was on “baked chicken’ that was baked in a oven with a drop of water, onion and other spices, before shabbos, and it was on the hot… Read more »
baked chicken if it’s considered bishul
Question: if it is mitur to take out a piece of baked chicken from the hot plate and put it into a pot of hot soup or cholent that’s also… Read more »
Instahot Water Dispenser – Shabbat
Question: We have an instahot water dispenser that dispenses hot water. It basically has a tank that holds water and is plugged in. When water is dispensed new water flows… Read more »
Sterno on Shabbos
Question: If one uses sternos (a small can that is lit under a pan to keep the food in the pan hot) to keep food warm on shabbos, can one… Read more »
Chefman Hot water urn on shabbos
Question: There are a lot of frum stores that sell the Cheman hot water urn that has a shabbos mode. They have many of the same urn under different brand…. Read more »
Making some new types of coffee on shabbos
Question: Shalom, I recently bought a coffee in Israel which says in the ingredients “97% Instant coffee freeze dried, 3% Roasted ground). Can I make it on Shabbos and if… Read more »
Using a kli sheni to make instant coffee
Question: Last shabbos a friend of mine suggested that using a kli sheni to make coffee on shabbos was unnecessary as the coffee has already been roasted, hence, will not… Read more »
Defining the Heter of using an overturned pot
Question: Good Afternoon. Can the Rav please define what has to be done to reheat a Kugel on an eletric hotplate. I have seen from the Shemiras Shabbos Kehilchasa that… Read more »
Using preserved lemon juice on Shabbos
Question: Is preserved lemon juice mevushal re adding to hot tea on Shabbat? We bli neder avoid tea bags and use instant tea from England. Answer: Usually it is precooked… Read more »
Putting food into a cli sheini on Shabbos
Question: We know that a food that is a “davar yavesh” (dry) that was already cooked (in a cli rishon) before Shabbos may be put into a pot of hot… Read more »
Warming raw edible greenbeans on Shabbos
Question: Is it a problem to warm on Shabbos raw green-beans that are edible on a hot plate? The green-beans will become soft and hot, and maybe also crispy (They… Read more »
Can someone make a blech on shabbos?
Question: If someone didn’t make a blech on shabbos is he allowed to make one or is that an issue of makeh bepatish since now it’s garuf vekatum and he… Read more »
Reheating something that was pickled on shabbos
Question: Is there yesh bishul achar kevisha just like yesh bishul achar tzli and afiya. Please include source. Thanks. Answer: There is bishul achar kevisha. Sources: Chidushey Rabbi Akiva Eiger… Read more »
warming up frozen challah
Question: I know one is allowed to warm up frozen challah on the cover of a pot on the blech. But is one allowed to cover the challah partially while… Read more »
Bishul on Shabbos
Question: Is one permitted to place a kli rishon of hot cholent, or even a kli sheini of yad saledes cholent/ hot soup, on top of a plate that has… Read more »
Hot Water from Sink on Shabbos
Question: Does turning off a hot water heater before Shabbos make it permissible to use the hot water from the sink on Shabbos? Answer: Not necessarily. If the water in… Read more »
Styrofoam Cups and Cooking on Shabbos
Making coffee on Shabbos using 2 cups assuming no essence was made: Pour water from kettle into cup #1, pour water from that cup into cup #2 that has coffee… Read more »
Food Cooked on Shabbos
I became religious about a year ago and my family is not. I went to Shabbat dinner with my family to a friends house and they were nice enough to… Read more »
Forbidden Preparations on Shabbos
Hi On shabbos I took a crockpot and put some potatoes meat and spices on it and after shabbos I added more am I allowed to cook it now and… Read more »
Making Sushi on Shabbos
I wanted to know if sushi could be prepared on shabbos and found, what seems to me to be conflicting responses on this site. In the English site dinonline.org it… Read more »
Shehiya of Cooled Water
Shalom, What is the halachah regarding שההיה of מים שנתחממו ונצטנו? What about בדיעבד? Thank you Answer: Cooked water which cooled off should be treated like regular “raw” water with… Read more »
Heating Gravy on Shabbos
Heating up a congealed gravy on shabbat – is this permitted? Answer: Congealed gravy should not be heated up on Shabbos, since this involves changing the state from solid to… Read more »
Mishloach Manos with Food Cooked on Shabbos
If a person purposely cooked on Shabbos, he cannot benefit from that food ever. Question: Can he give that food to another for mishloach manos, since (1) the other person… Read more »
Crockpot on Shabbos
I have a question regarding the timing of cooking cholent in a normal crockpot where the heating elements are covered by the frame of the pot and heat from the… Read more »
Timer for Hot Plate
Is it permissible to place a cold solid food on a hot plate (controlled by timer) which is switched off, but is due to come on a later time? I… Read more »
Espresso on Shabbat
If I want an espresso on Shabbat, what would be the best way for me to get a non-Jewish person to make it for me? Answer: You cannot really have… Read more »
Using French Press on Shabbat
Can one use a french press coffee maker on shabbat? How about on chaggim? Answer: The use of a french press involves two questions: 1. Cooking the beans. 2. Separating… Read more »
Using Used Tea Bag on Shabbos
Can one use a used tea bag on shabbos? The tea leaves are cooked already. If yes, does the tea bag need to be dry? Should one pour the water… Read more »
Non-Jew Boiled Water on Shabbat
When I am at a Hotel and a non-Jew makes coffee or boils water for tea on Shabbat am I allowed to drink it being that a non-Jew boiled it…. Read more »
Heating Challah on Shabbat
Is it permissible to put challas on the blech on shabbat morning on top of another pot that’s turned upside down and then putting a small towel on top of… Read more »
Hot Water on Plata on Shabbat
If the kumkum turn off on Shabbat, and that the water is still yad soledet bo, can one transfer the content into another pot and place it on the plata…. Read more »
Returning Wet Lid on Shabbos
My wife asked me the following Sheala: If a pot of soup was taken off the stove on Shabbos and the lid (the underside of which was covered with steam… Read more »
Crockpot on Shabbos
Many of the newer crockpots now have a mode that turns it to “warm” after it has been on “high” or “low” for a specific amount of time (4,8,10 hours… Read more »
Mashing Food on Shabbos
1. Is it permissible to mash food on Shabbos? 2. If one left a pot with water on a Shabbos blech with the lid inverted, is it permissible to place… Read more »
Adding Cover on Cholent
If someone put a cholent on a blech or platta that wasn’t yet fully cooked. Is it ossur to put on top of it a towel (on shabbos in a… Read more »
Returning Pot after Food Taken Out
Cholent pot was taken off the stove by accident and put into a second kli. The owner of the pot then realized the situation and was upset about this and… Read more »