[Avodah] Grape Juice

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:09:49PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 19/07/2013 1:12 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> It depends at what temperature it was pasteurised.  I'm I'm reading this
> http://tinyurl.com/nxkv75q correctly, the FDA recommended levels seem to be :
..
> 170 degrees F for 1.3 seconds,
> 175 degrees F for 0.6 seconds, or
> 180 degrees F for 0.3 seconds
>
> From what I can gather, RMF holds that 170F is enough for mevushal,
> while the Tzelemer (Kedem's original machshir) holds it's more like 190.
> Nobody seems to hold 160 is enough, but they usually do it at 180, which
> is enough for RMF.

That does answer my question of how it's halachically plausible, but
according to RMF, would this be enough -- less than 1/4 of a cheileq?
The wine won't be reduced in volume at all! (Which they take efforts to
catch anyway, but that's a different discussion.)

:-)BBii!
-Micha