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  • Cooking on Shabbat

Thermos on SHABBOS

Question: Can a person use a thermos that was filled with a hot beverage before SHABBOS on Shabbos lchatchila? Is there a difference between SFARDIM and ASHKANAZIM in this regard?… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos Hatmana
14/02/2021
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TEA ESSENSE in THERMOS

Question: If someone before Shabbos filled a thermos with hot sweet tea, can that tea be used as TEA essence on Shabbos with hot water? The tea in the thermos… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
13/01/2021
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Shehiya in oven

Question: Hi, I am learning shehiya now and have a question about our ovens. If someone wants to follow the Biur Halacha’s opinion is there any heterim to leave food… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat
10/01/2021
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Plugging in urn right before Shabbos

Question: if someone forgot to plug the hot water urn before shabbos and they realize it about 10 minutes before shkiah can they then plug it in even though the… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
04/01/2021
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Coffee on Shabbos

Question: Hello thanks for taking my question did a little research about coffee and I saw that coffee is not cooked while processing only it is roasted if so this… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
30/12/2020
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Hatmana in silver foil

Question: Is there a problem of hatmana on Shabbos if I completely cover my kugel (taken from the fridge) or challah with tin foil on my blech or on top… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos Hatmana
20/12/2020
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Cholent on Pickle Juice

Question: Is it permitted on Shabbos to put cholent (from the cholent pot, using a ladle) onto a plate that is slightly wet (from having eat a wet food such… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
10/12/2020
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Aluminum lining for CROCK POT USED on SHABBOS

Question: If someone uses a CROCK POT for cHOLENT on Shabbos. Does he/she need to line the CROCK POT with ALUMINUM FOIL between the CERAMIC pot and the heating pot… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat blech cooking on Shabbos
06/12/2020
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Cholent on Shabbos

Question: If someone’s cholent was burning and fully cooked and they took the insert out of the crockpot and while leaning against the counter, they put in cold water and… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
17/11/2020
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Can I use this hotplate on Shabbos?

Question: Dear Rabbi: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H7VHVSS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It has no control knobs except for On & Off. “Turn up the temperature of the portable hot plate to 203F, keeping food warm, not burnt.”… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos Hotplate
04/11/2020
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Shabbos mode in oven

Question: Are you allowed to open and close an oven that is on numerous times on Shabbos with food in it? The oven is in a shabbos mode so there… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
29/10/2020
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Putting food on a hot try with a timer only going on a few hours into Shabbos

Question: I’m currently learning in a local Hilchos Shabbos chabura and a shailah regarding food and a hot tray has come up. Would there be any chashash of נתינה בתחלה… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos shabbos clocks
21/09/2020
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Can We Consider Rock Salt Already Cooked?

Question: Hi, I refer to a recent question that you answered and this link: https://dinonline.org/2020/09/15/ein-bishul-achar-bishul-can-a-solid-food-ever-lose-its-cooked-status/ An additional question has arisen based on this regarding rock salt. We learn that rock… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
16/09/2020
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Ein Bishul Achar Bishul – Can A Solid Food Ever Lose It’s Cooked Status

Question: Hi, In regards to Ein Bishul Achar Bishul … can a dry, solid, fully-cooked food every lose its cooked status. For example if I cook something and seal it… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
15/09/2020
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LADLE with CHOLLENT on Shabbos

Question: AFTER USING A LADLE for CHOLLENT or any other hot food (soup) needs to be cleaned before using it again either by another person or the person himself? Putting… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat Bishul cooking on Shabbos
25/08/2020
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Leaving cold soup on hot plate before shabbos

Question: Is it ok to leave cold soup on the hot plate (platter) before shabbos? I think it’s ok because there is no maiseh shabbos and there’s no issue of… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos shehiya
23/08/2020
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Warming solid food on top of an electric urn on Shabbos

Question: Can I warm up chalah on top of an electric urn filled with hot water? Can I do it if I wrap the chalah in foil or if I… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos Hatmana
14/08/2020
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Heating soup on top of crock pot on Shabbos.

Question: I have a crockpot that I use for my cholent. Is my wife allowed to put soup that consists of mostly solid into a piece of foil, and then… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
10/08/2020
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Adding spices to soup on Shabbos in a kli shieni

Question: I just listened to a class. The person asked what do you if your wife forgot to spice the soup before Shabbos. He said she pours it from the… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos kli sheni
06/08/2020
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Platta on Shabbos timer

Question: Shabbos morning we usually don’t eat cholent but rather some sort of meat dish and sides. When we go out to eat Friday night we don’t want to leave… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
02/08/2020
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Taking cholent or soup from a pot on the fire on Shabbos

Question: Is one allowed to take cholent from the pot while it is on the fire if it is fully cooked? Is soup any different? I know some people do… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos stirring food on fire
14/07/2020
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Adding oil to cholent on shabbos

Question: I like my cholent with lots of oil in it. By the time the seudah comes on Shabbos my cholent isn’t as oily as I would like it. My… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos
15/06/2020
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Halachoh of Hagasah( mixing)

Question: 1. may one remove soup from a pot that is on an electric hot plate on shabbos. 2. does the brand israheat have the kulos of a blech? Answer:… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat cooking on Shabbos stirring food on fire
30/04/2020
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What does mosif hevel mean?

Question: Regarding hatmana we know there are items that are mosif hevel. However it can’t be that these items actually give off heat, because simply placing them next to cold… Read more »

Cooking on Shabbat Hatmana Shabbos
13/01/2020
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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
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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
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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
  • Cooking on Shabbat

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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