Cooking on Yom Tov: Difference between revisions

# Food which wouldn’t have deteriorated by being cooked before [[Yom Tov]] should be cooked before [[Yom Tov]]. However, if one forgot, one may cook on [[Yom Tov]] but should do so with a variation from the regular method. <Ref>Rama 495:1, Mishna Brurah 495:8 and 10 </ref> Additionally, if it was physically impossible to cook before [[Yom Tov]], or guests came on [[Yom Tov]] one may cook without a variation. <Ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 2:2 </ref> Nonetheless, water may be heated up on [[Yom Tov]] even without a variation. <ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kehilchata (chap 2 note 6) </ref>

# One may cook a whole pot of meat even if one only needs one piece because the extra meat improves the taste of the whole dish <Ref>S"A 503:1, Mishna Brurah 503:5 </ref> as long as one doesn't say that one is doing for after [[Shabbat]]. <ref> Mishna Brurah 503:6 </ref>

==Lighting a fire on [[Yom Tov]]==

# It’s permissible to cook on [[Yom Tov]] as long as the flame was lit before [[Yom Tov]] or the timer was set for it to begin operating on [[Yom Tov]]. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 1:27 </ref>

# One may not raise or lower the temperature of an electric stove. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 1:27 because in doing so you'll usually be extinguishing one coil and heating up another in its place.

* How do electric stoves work? This writeup is only a beginning and needs more research:

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# On [[Yom Tov]], an oven which is thermostatically controlled, is permitted to be opened and closed in order to put in, check, or remove food. <Ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 1:30 </ref>

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