[Avodah] Ta'aroves of yayn mevushal

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> 
> 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? <<
Zev  Sero                      

 
 
>>>>>>
 
I'm not sure if this solves the problem you're asking about, but on the  rare 
occasions that we have an open bottle of non-mevushal wine in the fridge on  
the day the cleaning lady comes, my husband makes his own seal -- he signs his 
 own name on a piece of paper and scotchtapes it around the top and neck of 
the  bottle, so that no one could open it without tearing the seal.
 
PS But I have a related question -- given that my cleaning lady has a key  to 
my house -- even though she usually only comes on Thursday -- do I have to  
worry about my non-mevushal wine all the time?  For that matter, do I have  to 
worry about bishul akum or about her somehow treifing my dishes, on the  
extremely remote chance that she would ever cook anything in my home when I  am not 
here (she never cooks so that is extremely remote, but theoretically she  
could).  Is there anything else I should worry about, since she has a  key?  (I 
am not worried about her secretly baptizing my children,  they're too old for 
that and she's not a Catholic anyway -- although she is  a devout Christian who 
reads the Bible every day.)
 

--Toby Katz
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