[Avodah] West Hartford Doctor Challenges GE On `Sabbath Mode' Oven

[T613K at aol.com]

From: "Prof. Levine" <llevine at stevens.edu>

>>  Harris also cannot cook food on the Sabbath. He is allowed only to
reheat  previously cooked food without starting or stopping an
electrical circuit. An  oven with a Sabbath mode bypasses the
automatic 12-hour shut-off circuitry  built into modern ovens for
safety. He also assumed the Sabbath-compliant  oven he bought had a
time-bake feature that could be set before the weekend  Sabbath to
turn on automatically to reheat the pre-cooked food.

"That  assumption," he says, "ultimately proved wrong."

As Harris understood it,  this was not a proper Sabbath mode. <<
 

 
>>>>>
 
It seems to me that Harris is wrong about the halacha.  You can't turn  an 
oven on on Shabbos (even by setting a timer to do it) in order to heat up  
food.  You can put cold food on a blech but IIANM you can't put cold food  in 
a hot oven on Shabbos.  
 
He thought the oven could be set to turn itself on on Shabbos, because he  
was misinformed about what he could do on Shabbos.  Neither GE nor the  
Star-K misled him.
 
The main advantage of a Sabbath mode is that it will stay on for two  or 
three days over a long yom tov.  It lets you override the automatic  12-hour 
cutoff that all the new-fangled ovens have.  In the good old days  /all/ 
ovens were "Sabbath mode" in this respect:  they stayed on until you  turned 
them off.
 

--Toby Katz
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