[Avodah] Fresh Challah for Yom Tov (was is Lox kosher)

[Isaac Balbin]

> 
> From: Zev Sero <zev at sero.name>
> Assuming the baker is correct - would that now imply that baking Hallah
>> on YT is no longer permitted? Being that since we now can get just as
>> good Hallah by using frozen?
> 
> No.  There's nothing as good as *fresh* baked bread.  But frozen bread
> is just as good as yesterday-baked bread.  Time in the freezer doesn't
> count (or counts so little, over the course of a week, that it's de
> minimis).

It's as least as Shaveh L'chol Nefesh to have fresh food as the Ksav Sofer's hetter for smoking which people seem to use on Yom Tov because they still think it's Shaveh L'chol Nefesh (you know, it's healthy and calms the nerves)
In reality, smoking can be thought of as Shaveh L'Chol Nefesh for SMOKERS. 

Fresh Challah is the same for those with a discerning palate or decent Challah shops (in Melbourne, our Challas are wonderful)
Is it Assur for someone who hates using warm water to warm up water to wash their feet on yom tov?

If you can't taste the difference between frozen yoech that has been warmed up versus fresh, then maybe the yoech isn't up to par and I might need to invite you to have my wife's authentic poilishe yoech.

The bottom line is that (fresh tasty food) enhances simchas yom tov and anyway chodosh (sic) (freezers) are assur min hatorah :-)

Frozen warmed up meals are only muttar while you travel, and how often have you enjoyed one of those meals!
I admit, though, that after being in India for 2 weeks I get excited when they serve me a Hermolis meal on the plane :-)

Anyway, perhaps instead of Challah you can use two of those pre-packaged petrified big fish balls/logs. I think there is enough bread in them to render the Bracha Hamotzi :-) I'm just waiting for the heilige velt to start putting 

"Hemishe Fish grown in the mikvah, free of parasitic worms"

PS. What I really miss on Pesach is (decent) schmaltz herring (not the horrible pink israeli variety)

My father won't have it because the Goyim in his town used to throw the bread crumbs into the rivers and lakes before pesach.