Permissible ways to heat up food on Shabbat: Difference between revisions

===Clarification of the first requirement===

# One may not return the inset of a crockpot to the base unless it was covered with aluminum foil (or the like) and it's preferable to cover the knob as well. <ref> [[Shabbos]] Kitchen (Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, p. 60)</ref>

# According to Ashkenazim, in cases of need one may return food if it was placed on a table or bench as long as one had intent to return it a covered fire. <Ref> Beiur Halacha 253:2 s.v. VeDato writes in cases where one had intent to return the pot to the fire, and left it on the ground, in a case of need there’s room to be lenient. Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 1:19, Orchot [[Shabbat]] (vol 1 pg 85) agree. (It seems, however, that the Orchot [[Shabbat]] quotes Beiur Halacha even in cases where there’s no need). </ref>

# Some say that marble countertops are considered like a table or bench and if placed down there without intent, one may return it if there’s a need for the food. However, others say that marble countertops are considered like the ground and one shouldn’t return it to the fire unless there’s no other hot food. <Ref> Regarding placing a pot on a marble countertop there’s a dispute in the poskim. Petach Dvir 253:2, Sh”t Yitzchak Yiranen 2:42, and Menuchat Ahava 3:2, 3:8(3) write that anything attached to the ground is considered like the ground. Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 1 pg 193 note 9) says that one has what to rely on if it was left on marble and not on the ground itself. Orchot [[Shabbat]] 2:46 brings a dispute between Rav Elyashiv, Rav Shlomo Zalman, and Rav Nassim Karlitz who are lenient regarding marble counters while, Rav Wosner is strict on this issue. </ref>