Sabbath
Making Your Fridge Shomer Shabbos
Today, your average fridge is a major shabbos problem. Fridges come with cameras, alerts, lights and more. Luckily the OU is ready with the GE Shabbos Keeper fridge attachment. Learn more about making your fridge shomer Shabbos with Naomi Nachman on Table for Two! To Learn More: Not Your Grandmother’s Refrigerator! Navigating Kitchen […]
Hi-tech Kitchen Appliances: Navigating their use on Shabbos: OU Certifies Plug-in Device by Zman Technologies…
Technology has changed drastically over the last 30 years and with that, its application in home appliances, such as refrigerators. What was once merely a question of indirectly activating a compressor on Shabbos, which many leading poskim permitted, is now considerably more complex. Activating the automatic defrost system, which is controlled by microprocessors and door sensors, can involve […]
The Catered Affair On Shabbos
Taking Responsibility It goes without saying, but unfortunately needs repeating, that in preparing a catered kiddush, not only must someone be responsible to oversee the kashrus of the food, but someone must insure that the halachos of Shabbos are adhered to. Who will accept this responsibility? The baalei simcha are preoccupied with other things. The […]
Warming Food On Shabbos
In warming food on Shabbos, there are three issues to consider – the first is potentially d’oraita and the latter two are d’rabbanan – bishul, hatmana and chazara. Bishul/cooking includes, but is not limited to, finishing off the cooking/baking of a food (e.g. baking/warming a challah in a manner that removes the last vestiges of […]
Cooked Or Not? Spicing Foods On Shabbos And Related Issues
Many questions regarding bishul on Shabbos are dependent on how the food was produced and due to modern production methods, in many cases the people with the most technical information on the topic are the kashrus professionals. Thus, consumers who want to know if they can put salt, spices or ketchup into their cholent, croutons into their soup, and similar questions will from time to time call the hashgachah agency that supervises those products – and this week’s column will discuss a number of those questions.
Shabbos Shaylos: Placing Salt Into Hot Cholent Or Soup On Shabbos
May one place salt into hot food on Shabbos?
Shabbos Shaylos: Arranging Fruit On A Skewer On Shabbos
Can one arrange fruit on a skewer on Shabbos?
Shabbos Shaylos: Moving Cholent From The Top Of A Pot Onto The Blech
Can on move cholent from the top of a pot onto the blech on Shabbos?
Shabbos Shaylos: The Shabbos Light
Can one use a “Shabbos light” on Shabbos?
Shabbos Shaylos: Washing Dishes, Dishwashers, Slicers, & Mixers
What are the rules for asking non-Jews to do work on Shabbos at hotels and catering establishments?