Question:
Hi,
I'm trying to improve my shmiras Shabbos and noticed some things that I do that are questionable:
1) When I take water out of our hot water urn on Shabbos, there are little droplets that splash onto the counter and not into the cup. Is it a problem if there is some sugar or coffee on the counter that gets hit by these water drops?
2) When I take my pot of chicken soup off of the electric hot plate, do I have to put it down onto a counter that is completely dry? Is it problematic if I put it onto a towel that is a little bit wet?
3) I don't have a lot of space on my kitchen counter. Is it problematic if a drop of chicken soup splashes back onto the hot plate when I dish it out into bowls?
4) Last Shabbos, some chicken gravy had spilled on top of foil that was covering a pan on top of my electric hot plate. When I took the pot of soup off the hot plate, it moved the gravy spill to a hotter area and it started to sizzle. Is this a problem?
5) Are Israeli soup nuts fried? Can I put them into a kli sheni?
6) If I want to put left-overs away, is it borer to take a container out from a mixture of containers? The food is only meant for later, but I have an immediate use for the container.
Answer:
Hello,
- You do not have to worry about any droplets, that might hit the counter exactly in the place that there is some sugar or coffee. The reason is because, you don’t mean to do it, and it would be considered dvar sheino miskaven (and for other reasons).
- The counter or towel where the hot pot is placed, should be dry.
- Any drops of hot chicken soup that splash back onto the stove are not an issue because the soup is already cooked and hot.
- Assuming that he oil still didn’t cool down yet, you don’t have to be concerned that it spilled back on to the hot plate. Similar to the hot chicken soup that spilled on the hot plate.
- There are different kinds of soup nuts. The kind that looks yellow, seems to be fried. Even the ones that look like small pieces of bread, if the package says that they are for soups and salads, it means that they were fried. 9 The company has to fry them in to ensure that the hot soup will not cause them to fall apart. If they are only for salads, then they might be only baked. If you dish out your soup with a ladle, then your bowls are now a kli shelishi, and would only be a kli sheini if you poured the soup from the pot directly into the bowls.
- It is not borer to take out a container from a mixture, because right now you are using the container to store your leftovers. The fact that you will only eat the food later, doesn’t take away from the fact that you are right now using the container to store the food.
Best wishes
