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See Shabbos Kehalacha (vol. 2 12:39-42). Borer is not a problem if you don't want either thing but just want to separate them in order to dispose of them properly. (For example separating recycling from other garbage, papers for geniza from papers for garbage, Shemita fruit peels from other fruit peels to throw out). Similarly here were you don't want either ...
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The Sink: Separate sinks for washing dishes and preparing foods are
recommended. If the two sinks are adjoining, there should be an
effective separation between them so that no water or food splashes
from one sink to the other.
If there is only one sink, it may be used after it has been completely
...
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From investigating AGA ovens, in theory there is no problem in kashering them.
In practice it's gonna be quite complex. They have a ton of areas, and they are massive with a lot of thermal mass.
In order to kasher them, you have to heat them up quite hot, but because of the thermal mass it's going to take a huge amount of energy and a very large flame. It ...
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I don't have a source for this, but I have heard that in such a situation, it would be permissible to ask a child to hold the refrigerator door open so that the light would not be turned off on Shabbos. Naturally, it is expected that the child will eventually run away and the door will close. You still wouldn't be able to open the refrigerator again that ...
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(I know this answer is late.)
According to http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/english/journal/broyde_1.htm the reason the Star K allows Yom Tov mode is that Rabbi Auerbach holds that electricity is permitted on Shabbos, as long as no light or heat are produced.
And on Yom Tov heating is allowed, so the oven is permitted as long as you don't change the display ...
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