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| Tweet Topic Started: May 26 2009, 10:05 AM (802 Views) | |
| lilac7 | May 26 2009, 10:05 AM Post #1 |
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Does everyone leave the oven on for the holidays? For example this weekend, it would mean leaving it on for 2 days? Is it safe? Do those who don't leave it on - cook everything before? |
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| realeez | May 26 2009, 10:16 AM Post #2 |
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If my oven is safe enough to leave on through an entire day of marathon cooking, it's safe enough to leave on for 48 hours. That said, when I lived in a house with a gas oven, I did not leave the stovetop on since I was worried if the fire would blow out, that the gas would be dangerous to breathe in (although on YT, you can relight it with a flame that was lit before YT). |
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| zuncompany | May 26 2009, 10:17 AM Post #3 |
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I don't leave a burner on top cause I can't do it safely nor a blech for the same reason... makes me nervous with the kids but I leave the oven on. Yeppers. Never had an issue. I honestly am not going to not serve my family warmed food for that many days. I cook pretty much everything before and leave my oven at 215 to heat food. |
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| lilac7 | May 26 2009, 10:22 AM Post #4 |
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realeez - the difference is though (for me) is that even if you're cooking all day you're right there, but at night you're sleeping - i don't know, i'm very nervous to leave it on, what if fire will start in the middle of the night? |
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| zuncompany | May 26 2009, 10:28 AM Post #5 |
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If your to nervous nobody is telling you to leave it on. Its a personal choice. I personally am more worried about leaving a hot plate, a crock, or my stove top/blech on. I make sure twice a year (before Rosh Hashana and before pesach) that my oven is properly hooked up and the gas connection is all good. |
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| realeez | May 26 2009, 10:33 AM Post #6 |
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Do whatever you are most comfortable with then. For regular Shabbos, I actually don't keep it on (electricity and heat wise) - I turn it up to 500 before Shabbos, put the food in for 5 minutes and then close the temp and it keeps hot until we eat. |
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| Reverse Karma | May 26 2009, 10:41 AM Post #7 |
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When I had an older oven, I put it on a timer for each of the meals and i loved that. NOw mine is digital and I don't have that option. I never want the house that hot, though. I have a plata that's on a timer instead. Yes, everything is cooked beforehand. And no cholent. |
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| hallie_ari_mom | May 26 2009, 10:47 AM Post #8 |
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I spend Shabbos with my Rebbitzen every week. (granted we go home in between) but they have a hot meal Friday night, and for kiddush the next day we eat hot cholent from the crock pot, and every thing else is yummy and cold. All winter, all summer.. pasta salads, potato salads, veggie salads. We never do a warm meal other than the cholent. Breakfast there is either cholent or cakes/cereal, so nothing hot and then dinner is whatever is left over. Sometimes cold cuts. I know they have a blech, but I've never seen them use it. |
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| realeez | May 26 2009, 10:52 AM Post #9 |
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For Shabbos, I don't find it to be a big deal not to have an oven on as anyways I can't put cold stuff in but for 2-day YT, it's much harder! |
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| zuncompany | May 26 2009, 11:20 AM Post #10 |
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Yom Tov is very different than Shabbos. I don't even do a crock pot for Shabbos cause I actually DO find it to be a problem in my kitchen because when I take the pot out to serve the chollent under my cabinets get SUPER SUPER hot and it makes me very nervous. A hot plate is even worse cause not only does it heat up my cabinets but its there to be touched. Same with the blech (plus the issue with my kids being tall enough that they could touch it which makes me nervous). I don't like to have to police my kitchen honestly. I would not put food in a hot oven though on Shabbos in the first place because I hold its problematic for Shabbos anyway. Shabbos though its one meal cold and thats it. Very different than many mult. meals (even worse when its YT into Shabbos or Shabbos into YT so you have about 72 plus hours). But again, if your not comfortable you don't have to leave it on :) |
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| yaffasmom | May 26 2009, 01:01 PM Post #11 |
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lilac7, I NEVER leave my oven on. Yes I cook all my food beforehand. I will not leave my oven on for electricity reasons and saving energy for the earth kind of thing. for one day, 2 days or 3, I will not do it. I do not want anyone to feel alone. I know lots of people who do it. My Rabbi says that on Rosh Hashanna it is decided your income and anything spent on Shabbat is extra and not included in that. But somehow I cannot see wasting all that energy. So I do not. I have a plata on a timer and that is what I do. Still uses energy but just not as much. Amy |
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| Marion | May 27 2009, 03:32 AM Post #12 |
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I also won't leave the oven or stove on. Stove for safety reasons (gas), oven because it's remarkably expensive and not necessary. That's what a plata is for. My plata is on a timer so it's also not on 24/1 (or 2 or 3). I really need to get a 2nd timer for the crock pot but haven't gotten so organized to do that yet. Yes, of course everything is cooked ahead. For Shabbat it must be anyway. |
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| rikal | May 27 2009, 04:17 AM Post #13 |
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I will be leaving my blech on for 2 days but with a timer. For the gas I have the Chagaz that turns it off after 20 minutes or so. |
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| Reverse Karma | May 27 2009, 10:25 AM Post #14 |
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My plata is older and not that hot anymore. The Rov said to open the cabinets above it slightly so the heat can dissipate. Alternatively, you can pull the plata out towards the edge of the counter, if you don't have little kids, that is. |
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| zuncompany | May 27 2009, 11:11 AM Post #15 |
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The opening cabinets did not work for me. It still got to hot for my comfort and I got nervous. I personally do not use timers so I guess that complicated things. As for my stove, my bill increases less than a dollar for a full YT. I have watched my bill CAREFULLY over the years cause everyone always says its so expensive. |
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