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Can one use a year-round warming tray for Pesach? How?
Year-round, pans of food and foil-wrapped food are placed on an electric warming tray; the foods within are not kosher for Passover. What's the easiest way to permissibly use the tray for Passover? ...
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How does one keep a kosher sink?
How does one keep a sink kosher when using two separate sets of plates and dishes?
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Can an 'AGA' oven be koshered?
Can an 'AGA' oven be koshered?
Here are encyclopedia and video explanations of what an AGA oven is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGA_cooker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxRp9b1yFGA
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G-d's Name in Fridge Magnets (Erasing)
If one were to arrange fridge magnets of letters to spell G-d's name, what are the halachic ramifications of rearranging them (erasing)?
If the magnets were small dots, rather than letters, but were ...
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Boiling over a pot to extinguish burners on Yom Tov?
Generally, on Yom Tov one is allowed to light a gas burner (using a pre-existing flame), but is not allowed to turn off the gas burner. This is because one may light a fire on Yom Tov, but not ...
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Microwave on Pesach
A friend told me that his family will kasher his microwave in general (ie if non-kosher food was heated up in it) but will not kasher it for Pesach, letting it lie dormant instead. Does anyone have a ...
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Using a non-kosher toaster oven
What is the permissible way to use a non-kosher toaster oven? My thought process was that, when cooking milk in a meat oven, the covering of the dish and the rack makes it acceptable.
Would covering ...
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Issues with cooking meat and milk at the same time
What issues are there (either potential or inherent) in cooking meat dishes and milk dishes at the same time on the same stovetop (not in the same pot)?
Please also compare benefits and problems ...
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Using an oven timer on Shabbas
This is my first post here.
I'm fairly familiar with cooking on Shabbat, but I have a few specific questions.
I know there are issues with using the warming setting on an oven to keep food warm. ...
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What do you do if you forgot to turn off the refrigerator light before Shabbat?
The first time you open a fridge on Shabbat, you notice the light is on. Your intention is to take out food, not turn on the light. Is closing the fridge a problem? Can I open it again? Is it better ...
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Is there some way to turn the electric stove on and off on Yomtov?
We use an electric stove to cook in our house, not fire or gas (aside from the occasional barbecue). To cook on first day Yomtov and more so on second day we would have to leave the stove on from the ...
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Cooking meat and milk in the microwave
Would cooking meat and milk in the microwave be prohibited on the biblical level or just a rabbinical level prohibition?
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is it ok to pour milk directly into a fleshig sink?
Is it permitted or forbidden to pour milk directly into a fleshig (meat-use) sink?
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Does anyone permit Shehiya to a gas oven/stove without a blech?
Anyone who has made a fire in their fireplace, especially Erev Shabbos for Leil Shabbos, can appreciate the issue of shema yechate b'gechalim as the fuel dies down (and their supper was not yet ...
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Bishul Akum Technology
Is there Bishul Akum when Using a Microwave being that it is not Cooking as it was in the times of CHAZAL?
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Electric Appliances and Mikva
Do electric appliances need to be dunked (toveled) in a mikva?
Obviously, if the parts that touch the food are removable (e.g. an electric mixer's bowl and blade, or a blender's carafe, or the ...
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Why does one need to kasher burners on a stove for passover?
I don't use separate burners for milk and meat during the year, nor do I think there's any reason to do that. So why the need to kasher burners before passover?
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Turning off a stove on Shabbat
Can one turn off a stove on Shabbat? I recently heard that Rav Tendler does in fact hold this and it was followed in the home of Rav Feinstein.
The reasoning had something to do with gas being made ...
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