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  • Cooking on Shabbat

Baking then frying or Vice Versa

Question: A gutten. Please clarify for me the halocha of  צליה אחר טיגוןand vice versa. If the differentiation in Bishul is between a process in which the food is submerged… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
25/11/2019
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Blech vs Hot plate

Question: Halacha Lemaseh: 1) Assuming all hot plates get to the level of yad soledes – Is there a difference between a fire with a blech and a hot plate?… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat blech cooking on Shabbos Hotplate
19/11/2019
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Power outage and raw chulent

Question: My shul has the practice of making the chulent right before shabbos. This week the power went out 10 minutes before shabbos and turned back on during bein hashmashos…. Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat Chazara cooking on Shabbos
12/11/2019
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Shabbos hot plate

Question: I inadvertently left a pot of soup on the electric hot plate on Friday night. The hot plate was still on, and I put the soup back right after… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat Chazara cooking on Shabbos
12/11/2019
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Soy Milk Ice Cubes in Coffee on Shabbos

Question: Hi, We decided to try to freeze our extra soy milk into ice cubes so that it wouldn’t spoil. Is there a problem to put the frozen soy milk… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat Bishul cooking on Shabbos
04/11/2019
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Making Tea on Shabbos

Question: Hello. Since there is a rule that Pouring (Iruy) from a Kli rishon, only cooks kedei klipah, why isn’t one allowed to pour from a kli rishon into a… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
18/09/2019
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Bishul

Question: In Siman שיח the mishne breruah, in Sif Koton לא after bringing פשט from the פרי מגדים, says that because it was nishreh in a Kli Rishon on erev… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat Bishul shabbos cooking
16/09/2019
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Ketchup on cholent on Shabbos

Question: If you put hot cholent on your plate.Can you add ketchup to the cholent on Shabbos. Answer: R’ Moshe Feinstein zt”l writes about this in Igros Moshe, and he… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
03/09/2019
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Raw fish on electric blech just before Shabbos

Question: Can one put raw fish in a tinpan with some water snd spices on a electric platter a few minutes before Shabbos to eat at the Friday night seudah???… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
15/08/2019
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instant coffee on shabbos

Question: Hi Some brands make an instant coffee containing mostly regular instant coffee but with a small percentage of roasted ground beans added . would you allow one to place… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat coffee shabbos cooking
12/03/2019
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Status of davar gush as a kli rishon with regard to bishul after baking

Question: Is one halachicaly required to remove every last crumb of challah that has fallen on their plate before placing hot (non-liquidy) cholent, or chicken on it on Shabbos. Although… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat Bishul shabbos cooking
22/01/2019
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Urn reheatingvwater

Question: In our city there are many power cuts. If you have an urn that has boiling water on shabbos and then there is a power cut and the water… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat Shabbos
21/12/2018
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Warming food on Shabbos

Question: Shalom. If I place a Stam Keli (e.g., a metal pan) (with no food in it) on top of a Blech or Hotplate on Erev Shabbos and on Shabbos… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat Bishul Shabbos
19/12/2018
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Sous vide on shabbos

Question: Does one need to toivel a sous vide machine? It does not touch the food, but rather just a means of cooking. and also, could one leave it on… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat Hatmana shabbos cooking toveling
26/11/2018
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Place a cooked chulent in a pan on top of an upside down pan before shabbos

Question: Can you before shabbos place a cooked chulent in a pan on top of an upside down pan Answer: My understanding of your question is that you want to… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
20/09/2018
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Setting water temp in house below Yad soledes to avoid shailos

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
14/09/2018
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
17/07/2018
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
08/07/2018
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
01/06/2018
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Hatmana Shabbos
26/05/2018
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
17/04/2018
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  • Work by gentile on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Work by gentile on Shabbat Gentile on Shabbos kashrus
14/12/2017
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
03/12/2017
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
30/11/2017
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
29/11/2017
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
22/11/2017
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  • Electricity on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Electricity on Shabbat shabbos cooking
22/11/2017
  • Cooking on Shabbat
  • Electricity on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Electricity on Shabbat shabbos clocks shabbos cooking
20/11/2017
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat shabbos cooking
10/09/2017
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Shabbos
14/08/2017
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Bishul Shabbos
14/08/2017
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Cooking electric urn Shabbos
09/03/2017
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Chazara hagasa Shabbos
24/01/2017
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Bishul electric urn
18/01/2017
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Cooking Shabbos tea
07/01/2017
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat coffee kli sheni
14/12/2016
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Bishul blech
06/12/2016
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Bishul lemon Shabbos
16/10/2016
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat
10/10/2016
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Cooking shabbat warming
19/09/2016
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat
18/09/2016
  • Cooking on Shabbat
  • Mixtures of meat and milk

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Mixtures of meat and milk
28/07/2016
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat
04/07/2016
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Bishul Cooking psik reisha shabbat
28/03/2016
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Bishul Cooking Hot Water shabbat
28/03/2016
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat coffee Cooking Shabbos
27/01/2016
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat baal tshuva Bishul ma'aseh shabbos non-kosher
19/07/2015
  • Cooking on Shabbat
  • Rabbinical laws of Shabbat

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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Rabbinical laws of Shabbat Bishul hachana preparation for weekdays (hachanah) Shabbos
06/07/2015
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat boneh Cooking shabbat sushi tofer
26/06/2015
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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 »

Cooking on Shabbat Cooking shabbat shehiya
23/06/2015
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