Raw or Roasted Grains: Difference between revisions

# Most authorities are of the opinion that puffed wheat is HaAdama (regarding [[Bracha Achrona]] [[#Bracha Achrona| see above]]).<ref> VeZot HaBracha (pg 103) quoteds [[Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach]], Rabbi Elyashiv, and Rabbi Sheinberg that the heating process isn’t considered [[cooking]] and so the Bracha is HaAdama just like raw wheat (S”A 208:4). VeZot HaBracha adds that Igrot Moshe would agree based on Sh”t 4:46 that heat alone isn’t considered [[cooking]]. Veten Bracha (Halachos of Brochos by Rabbi Bodner pg 527, Addendum five part A), Pitchei Halacha (Rabbi Binyamin Forst, pg 148 note 125), [[Rabbi Ovadyah Yosef]] in Chazon Ovadyah ([[Brachot]] pg 183), Chacham Ben Tzion Abba Shaul in Or Letzion (vol 2, 14:21), Birkat Hashem (vol 2 pg 129), and Halacha Brurah 208:16, and Piskei Teshuvot 208:8 all agree to the above conclusion. http://www.berachot.org/foods/cereals.htm goes by this opinion. </ref> However, some say that one could make [[Mezonot]]. <ref> Sh”t Igrot Moshe 4:44-46 writes that sugar crisps which are cooked and whole kernels have the Bracha of either [[Mezonot]] or HaAdama. Rabbi Dovid Heber of the Star-K writes that for Honey Smacks one may make a [[mezonot]] or HaAdama like the Igrot Moshe. (http://www.star-k.org/kashrus/kk-brochosforbreakfast-fall06.htm) The Kof-K holds similarly. ([http://www.kof-k.org/articles/040108110437W-25%20Breakfast%20Cereals.pdf Kof-K]) Similarly, Vayamod Pinchas (pg 160) quotes Rabbi Elyashiv as retracting from the earlier ruling (as quoted by Vezot HaBracha) that one makes a HaAdama on puffed wheat and after seeing the [[cooking]] process he held the Bracha was [[Mezonot]]. [Interestingly, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu (VeZot HaBracha pg 384) writes that the Bracha is HaAdama unless one crumbles it, puts it in milk or water (especially if the water is hot) in which case the Bracha is [[Mezonot]].] </ref>