[Avodah] Microwaves, etc. (was Dishwashers 1)

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RRW:
>> Also it would preclude broiling by means of electicity EG for livers.

Isaac.Balbin at rmit.edu.au
> Pardon my ignorance. Why is that? Isn't the issue with kashering livers
> to facilitate the blood drainage in the best way so that in the end
> it no longer is deep brown internally etc If we had some laser shock
> machine which did a bombardment of liver to the extent that it achieved
> the same as regular broiling (or better) would that render the liver
> not yet koshered?


Ok I didn't mean "nuking" livers, just using an electric element

Background:
Some Fundamentalists see electricity as "not fire" and therefore not
bishul and therefore no "nura misha'v sha'iv" therefore incapable of
making livers kosher.

Since I'm not a fundamentalist I consider electric cooking bishul mamash
and kosher to kasher livers, too.


Disclaimer:
I do confess the following - when soup needed to be re-heated on shabbos
for a choleh by a non-jew - I preferred using microwave over a real
fire on the premise it might be only be derabbanan. And so I did use
the fundamentalist sheeta as a "snif lehakeil" in a sha'as had'chaq.

Gutn Hodesh-Hanukkah

RRW
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