Posted on 05/17/2005 12:34:50 PM PDT by FoxPro
Please be aware that there are restrictions in the use of ovens and stoves on the Sabbath and Holidays. If you are unfamiliar with the laws of keeping food warm on the Sabbath or cooking on the Holidays, please call your Rabbi. Please note that when the Holiday and Sabbath coincide, the Sabbath laws prevail. See your owner's manual for instructions on operating the Sabbath mode. Before first use of a new oven be sure to wash the racks and interior of the oven thoroughly with warm water and soap to remove any coating oil.
COOKTOPS:
On the Sabbath, a gas flame or electric heat may not be initiated, adjusted or turned off.
On the Sabbath, a "blech" should be used to cover the flame in addition to covering the controls of the cooktop. For the gas burners and coiled electric burners, use a standard "blech". The manufacturer does not recommend putting a "blech" on the glass electric cooktop surface. Instead, just the controls should be covered.
On the Holidays, a gas flame or electric heat may not be initiated or turned completely off. For gas cooktops, raise and lower the temperature as required for cooking. For electric cooktops adjusting the temperature is permitted at any time following the instructions in the owner's manual (because there is a delay between the request and implementation).
During a power failure, gas cooktops will remain on, whereas electric cooktops will shut off and remain off when the power returns.
The glass electric cooktops cannot be kashered for Passover. For the rest of the year, be sure to wipe the cooking surface clean between meat and dairy use.
OVENS:
The oven temperature may not be initiated, adjusted or turned off on the Sabbath.
On the Sabbath, in lieu of a "blech", the oven controls should be covered. (Be careful not to cover vent openings.)
All food should be placed in the oven before the Sabbath begins, since none may be placed in the oven during the Sabbath.
On the Sabbath, the oven door may only be opened once, all the food removed, and then closed. On the Holidays, the oven door may be opened/closed at any time as often as desired.
On the Holidays, the temperature may be adjusted (but not initiated or turned off) at any time following the instructions in the owner's manual (because there is a delay between the request and implementation).
These ovens have a timed bake feature in the Sabbath mode. This feature can only be initiated before the Sabbath/Holiday. Once timed bake goes off, the oven cannot be used again for that Sabbath/Holiday.
These ovens have a delay start feature in the Sabbath mode. For use on the Sabbath, all food must be in the oven before the Sabbath begins.
After recovery from a power failure, all these ovens will stay off. They will remain in the Sabbath mode, however, there will be no cooking capability.
WARMING DRAWERS:
The drawer temperature may not be initiated, adjusted or turned off on the Sabbath.
On the Sabbath, in lieu of a "blech", the drawer controls should be covered. (Be careful not to cover vent openings.)
Food should be placed in the warming drawer before the Sabbath begins, as in a regular oven, since none may be placed in the drawer during the Sabbath.
On the Sabbath, the drawer may only be opened once, all the food removed and then closed. On the Holidays, the drawer may be opened/closed at any time as often as desired.
On the Holidays, raising the temperature is not permitted because there is no indication when power is on to the heating elements. Lowering the temperature is permitted when necessary for food preparation.
If the power fails when the warming drawer is ON, when the power returns, the drawer will return to its previous ON setting.
BAKE-N-WARM™ OVENS:
The oven temperature may not be initiated, adjusted or turned off on the Sabbath.
On the Sabbath, in lieu of a "blech", the oven controls should be covered. (Be careful not to cover vent openings.)
Food should be placed in the Bake-n-Warm™ oven before the Sabbath begins, since none may be placed in the oven during the Sabbath.
On the Sabbath, the oven door may only be opened once, all the food removed and then closed. On the Holidays, the oven door may be opened/closed at any time as often as desired.
On the Holidays, the temperature may be adjusted (but not initiated or turned off) at any time following the instructions in the owner's manual (because there is a delay between the request and implementation).
After recovery from a power failure, these Bake & Warm™ ovens will stay off.
Do they have one that faces Mecca and blows you up if you don't pray to allah five times a day?
I'm going to have to bookmark this thread for the recipes. I'm not Jewish, but some of the stuff sounds pretty good. I had a Jewish cookbook when I was in college, but it must have gotten lost in one of my zillions of moves.
I'm also rather stunned at some of the posts on this thread. Why should anyone care about someone else's religious observances? My appliances (gas range, refrigerator) have Sabbath settings. I simply don't use them.
It's called the "Oven of Peace".
It's in the Jewish and Christian section under "Infidel Cookware".
Exactly.
Like the whole thing about 'proving' that Jesus is the Messiah, and then after those pretzels of logic ***voila!***, the jeezer becomes G-d Himself, and a god-on-a-stick no less!
I would assume there would be an exception to the rule about turning off a stove burner in case of fire or other such hazard? And that turning off a gas burner would be acceptable if something caused the burner to be extinguished?
Ouch!
I guess I've just gone through my life in some kind of fog of naivete when it comes to some issues.
I'm not Jewish, but I think it's referring to the requirement that meat and dairy products never be allowed to contact each other. Once a bowl or plate has been used to hold meat products, some form of cleansing is required before it can hold dairy products. During passover, the rules are stricter than during the rest of the year. My interpretation of the text from the manual would be that it's possible to clean the glass surface in a manner that satisfies the requirements for most of the year, but not during passover.
Perhaps someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but what I think that means in practice is that if you never use burner 1 for dairy products, and never use burner 2 for meat products, and burners 3-4 you would sometimes use for meat and sometimes for dairy, then during most of the year you can use burners 3-4 for meat or dairy provided they are properly cleaned when switching uses; during passover, however, you would be limited to using burner 1 for non-dairy products and burner 2 for non-meat products. Since burners 3-4 would potentially have trace amounts of both meat and dairy products, even though those amounts would be irrelevant most of the year, those burners could not be used at all during passover.
I may be misunderstanding the rules, however; it's possible that they would merely require that those burners be restricted to items that are parve (not meat nor dairy, e.g. vegetables) or require that once a burner is used for meat or dairy during passover it cannot be used for the other at any time during the season.
All very tricky.
What exactly does the verb "kindle" mean in the original Hebrew? Does it refer to any act of adding fuel to a fire, or only to the act of lighting fire "from scratch", or what? Would it be acceptable to take out of a fire a stick whose end was in the fire, and then carry it as a torch? Unless the the addition of any fuel to a fire is a violation, I don't really see any clear line which would be violated by turning on the burner of an old-style (pilot-based) stove since that merely extends the fuel supply of an already-existing fire.
They should just buy GE appliances. Chances are they'll break down every 7 days anyway.
Since you appear to be Jewish, I will not argue the point with you. However, I will say this: No matter how hard you try, you WILL break some Jewish law. You cannot be justified through the law only convicted by it. Even today our laws exist only to notify of accepetable and unacceptable behavior and to punish.
I’m not qualified to answer that, but I’ll give you my impressions, very much subject to correction. Kindling is essentially starting a fire. Collecting the necessities for a fire or extinguishing a fire is also forbidden. I believe it’s ok to add fuel which is already collected, but I’m not sure. A torch, would depend on the reason. Remember all these “violations” would be permissible if there was a threat to life.
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