Adding Water to a Pot of Food to Prevent it From Drying Out.

Adding Water to a Pot of Food to Prevent it From Drying Out. Day: Sunday Date: August 24, 2014 Parshat: Shoftim Yalkut Yosef: 318 One may not add hot water on Shabbat directly to a pot of food that is still on the fire in order to prevent the food from drying out. One who sees others doing so should respectfully protest. One may add water however to a kli sheni. Ashkenazim may add water that is still hot to a kli rishon as long as the kli rishon is not directly on the fire anymore. Once the pot has been placed on a plata or a blech it is permissible. Sephardim may not add hot water to the kli rishon even once it has been removed from the fire until it cools down. A Sephardic student in an Ashkenazi yeshiva, or a Sephardic guest in an Ashkenazi home may partake of the food even if he knows that hot water was added. However, as we have said previously (see DSH from July 4, 2014) he may not tell the Ashkenazi to add water. The DSH is brought to you in memory of Rabbi Mordechai ben Daniel. Please visit us online at sephardichalacha.org