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On hag Pesach, if one finds rice in a cooking pot, the rice can be removed and the food eaten (as I understand the halacha).

Does that mean one can cook rice in a pesadik pot before Pesach? (Assume use of brown rice, to avoid enriched rice issue raised in a comment.)

If so, that would make eating easier in the days leading up to the first seder.

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  • even according to ashkenazim, kitniyot are not chametz
    – rikitikitembo
    Commented Apr 19 at 13:16
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    Note enriched rice with added vitamins (common nowadays) could pose a chametz issue, so even if you can cook rice you may have to find special rice.
    – Double AA ♦
    Commented Apr 19 at 13:21

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For the point mentioned, "On hag Pesach, if one finds rice in a cooking pot, the rice can be removed and the food eaten," Rav Ovadia in Yechaveh Daat 1:10 brings Achronim who say that the Rema in OC Siman 453:1 says that even for those who have the minhag to not eat rice on Pesach and rice falls in a pot of food it's not assur bedieved and the poskim say one can rely on batel bashishim and even more than 60 (the Chok Yaakov, Eliyah Rabah there, and Shu"t Zera Emet 3:48 also agree).

For the point, "Does that mean one can cook rice in a pesadik pot before Pesach?" In Shu"t Zera Emet 3:48 he says that an Ashkenazi can cook in a vessel in which rice or kitniyot was cooked in bedieved (the Kaf Hachaim OC 453 Seif Katan 27 agrees). This would apply to Pesach and all the more so before Pesach. According to the Piskei Teshuvot 453:9 and Ulehorot Natan 15:14, one should lechatchila not use a utensil on the same day (within 24 hours) that kitniyot was cooked (בן יומו), however if one does use that vessel to cook other food, one can eat that food bedieved. This applies to Pesach and all the more so before. In Chazon Ovadia Pesach Page 86 he writes the same thing.

Link used: https://www.yeshiva.org.il/ask/132083

Hope this makes sense

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  • I don't see the machloket. Pls clarify
    – Yehuda W
    Commented Apr 21 at 18:21
  • I originally thought it was a machloket lechatchilah vs bedieved between sefardim and ashkenazim but then I looked at the Kaf Hachaim again and it seems like both Sefardim and ashekenzaim say that lechatchila one should not cook in vessels where rice is cooked, I'll edit my answer, thank you
    – Avishai Tebeka
    Commented Apr 21 at 18:55
  • What sefardim say is basically irrelevant. This is a question only for ashkenazim
    – Double AA ♦
    Commented Apr 21 at 19:01
  • Yes I understand that, I was giving sources as to what Sefardim say about the Ashkenazi halacha, even though I know ashkenzaim probably don't care
    – Avishai Tebeka
    Commented Apr 21 at 19:03

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