<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Elliott Shevin</b> <<a href="mailto:eshevin@hotmail.com">eshevin@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><span class="q"> <br></span>If anything, putting food in the refrigerator is more likely to be hachana, since you <br>want to preserve leftovers you won't be eating that day; you're much more likely to <br>be consuming what you've left in the oven on the same Shabbos.
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<div>See 39 Melochos p. 112:</div>
<div>"Simple, non-strenuous activities that are done <em>routinely and effortlessly by people as a matter of course</em> (without any conscious thought that the act is a beneficial act of preparation) are in fact not Hachono, even when intended for post-Shabbos needs."
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<div>[brings fridge as example]</div>
<div>"Hachono is forbidden only when the Hachono-activity by its very nature bespeaks preparation. Commonplace activities in which the concept of preparing for anything is remote from people's minds are not Hachono. In such situations, there is no preception of Tircha."
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<div>He brings Shmiras Shabbos K'hilchasa 28:81 as a makor.</div>
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<div>Michael</div><br> </div>