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Judaica
~ Kosher Kitchenware ~ Blech |
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A blech (from the German by way of Yiddish
word for tin or sheet metal) is a metal sheet used by many
observant Jews to cover stovetop burners (and for some,
the knobs/dials too) on Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath), as
part of the precautions taken to avoid violating the
halachic prohibition against cooking on the Sabbath by
stirring the fire. |
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Common use
(Following excerpt
with permission of publisher of The
Blech Book, by Rabbi Fishel Jacobs.)
- The food
[including water] intended for
Shabbos use, should be completely
cooked.
- The stove’s gas
flames or electric coils are turned
on. The blech is placed over these.
Alternatively, the Shabbos hotplate,
which needs no blech (when it is the
type which has no knobs to adjust
the heat level,) is plugged in.
- The pot is placed
on the blech. Note: It is
permissible to place another pot on
this one.
- The pot on the
blech, or another pot which has been
placed on it, may be covered with a
blanket, clothing, towel, cloth etc.
to keep the heat from dissipating.
One side of the pot should be left
partially uncovered.
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Unblech An
unblech, or K'Deira Blech (water blech),
is also used to heat up pre-cooked
food on the Sabbath, but utilizes
different halakhic mechanisms than a
standard blech. An unblech consists of
a shallow metal pan filled with hot
water and covered by another metal
pan, and thus is akin to a pot of warm
food for halakhic purposes. As such it
may be more flexible than a standard
blech for halakhic purposes. However,
the temperature of an unblech is
limited by the boiling point of water
and is not as hot as a typical blech.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blech |
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| During Shabbos,
the pots are removed according to need. After
removal, it is permissible to return the pot
onto the blech, following these guidelines:
The pot should be removed from
the blech with the intention to replace it
afterwards and held at all times, not leaned
onto any surface. (A heavy or unwieldy pot may
be partially leaned on a surface, while being
held, if there is no alternative.)
- The food must be in the
same pot, completely cooked, and has retained
at least some of its original heat.
- The permisibility of blech
(and unblech, below) and the acceptable manner
of their use is questioned by several modern
Kashruth organizations [1], however, the use
of a Blech to re-heat food on the Sabbath
remains very popular among observant Jews. [2]
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