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==Soda on Shabbat==
==Soda on Shabbat==
# Many hold that it is permitted to make soda on [[Shabbat]] using a soda making machine that fills the water with carbon dioxide.<ref>Yabia Omer 3:21</ref>
# Many hold that it is permitted to make soda on [[Shabbat]] using a soda making machine that fills the water with carbon dioxide.<ref>Yabia Omer 3:21</ref>
==Ripening an Avocado==
#It is permitted to place an avocado that is too hard but possible to eat to the sunlight so that it softens if one's intention is to eat it on Shabbat.<Ref>Dor Hamelaktim (Asifat Yitzchak v. 6 p. 4016)</ref>
== Cutting Fruit into Shapes ==
# It is permitted to scoop melon into balls with a ball scooper.<ref>Orchot Shabbat 15:23, Eshmara Shabbat v. 2 p. 354</ref>
# It is permitted to cut a food or fruit into a simple shape such as a triangle or square, but it is forbidden to cut it into a specific design or shape.<ref>Mishna Brurah 510:17, Chut Shani (Yom Tov p. 139), Divrei Binayahu 10:49, Eshmara Shabbat v. 2 p. 354. Divrei Binayahu quotes Leviat Chen p. 210 who disagrees with Maharshag that there's no writing with food. Yalkut Yosef (Yom Tov p. 188-9) writes that cutting fruit into a circle, square, or hexagon is fine, but cutting it into a complex shape like a fish is forbidden. Shevut Yitzchak (v. 14 p. 320) writes that cutting into a triangle is fine but into a star is forbidden. See, however, Mayan Omer 14:76 who writes in the name of Rav Ovadia that it is permitted.</ref> See [[Kotev]].
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Revision as of 18:18, 10 December 2013

Preparing food on Shabbat is a general topic that potentially can involve several melachot on Shabbat. If one wants to learn details about a certain melacha, please visit that melacha specifically. The specific related melachot include: Borer (Separating), Tochen(Grinding), Merakaid (Sifting), Lash (Kneading), and Ofeh and Bishul (Baking and Cooking). B"H below will be the halachot of a number of practical cases of preparing food on Shabbat.

Soda on Shabbat

  1. Many hold that it is permitted to make soda on Shabbat using a soda making machine that fills the water with carbon dioxide.[1]

Sources

  1. Yabia Omer 3:21