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 »
Category: Cooking on Shabbat
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »