Assuming the vegetables used to make a salad were washed prior, does eating such a salad require the washing of hands without a Bracha?
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2editing in why you think they would require washing would greatly improve this question. ( If I had a source for you I'd give it to you, but I don't have one off-hand )– MTLNov 25, 2014 at 1:07
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The veggies are dried first though...– Double AA ♦Nov 25, 2014 at 3:11
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@DoubleAA You dry your veggies before putting them in a salad?– msh210 ♦Nov 25, 2014 at 6:45
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@msh210 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_spinner– Double AA ♦Nov 25, 2014 at 6:48
1 Answer
Shulchan Aruch HaRav O.C. 158:3 paskens that any food normally eaten without using ones hands directly does not require washing of hands without a Bracha.
Salad, as far as I know, is eaten with cutlery, so it would not require washing according to that.
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I've seen some who are careful not to eat an entire washed vegetable, because of this concern. i.e. they will wash a carrot or cucumber, but then cut off a bit of the end. The idea is, as long as one doesn't consume a whole washed vegetable, the ruling of the shulchan aruch doesn't apply, and then the rest of the remaining vegetable could even be eaten by hand.– JakeNov 25, 2014 at 8:37
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