[Avodah] Ta'aroves of yayn mevushal

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:49:51PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
> : That one is easy.  1 part wine to 6 parts other liquid.  If you were
> : going to add that much mevushal to your non-mevushal, why bother?
> 
> The opening case was that RRW has a nachriah housekeeper. I don't know
> about you, but I know how to make a taaroves, but I do not know how
> to cook wine without ruining it. I would think you need equipment to
> insure the alcohol wouldn't get away. So lemaaseh in someone's home,
> this solution may be the more pragmatic one.

If you're diluting it 6:1 you're not adding mevushal to the non-mevushal,
you're adding a tiny bit of left-over non-mevushal to a nearly-full bottle
of mevushal.  Why bother?  For that little, why not just leave it, and
take the risk that you might have to throw it away *if* she happens to
move the bottle?  In such a situation I doubt RRW would be asking the
question in the first place.  If he is, he must have a substantial amount
of non-mevushal left in the bottle, and be asking about topping it up
with some mevushal, in a ratio of less than 1 to 1, in order to pasel it
from nisuch.  That sounds like a good question and I don't know the answer.

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