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I’m making a batch of donuts using more than 5lbs of flour. Do I need to take Hafrashat Challah?
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Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher recorder of psak and policy, breaks down the answer. Got kashrut questions? Drop them in the comments!
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I'm going to be making a large batch of donuts
with more than 5 lbs of flour. Do I do Hafrashat
Challah? Is that done with a bracha? How does that
work? Donuts are a special category because it's a
dough that's not baked. It's fried. It's boiled in
oil. When you make a dough to be boiled, according
to most poskim, it is not obligated in Hafrashat
Challah. However, there is an opinion that says
that it is obligated in Hafrashat Challah. So,
the Shach brings that in order to accommodate all
opinions, one should take Hafrashat Challah from
dough that's made for boiling. However, one does
not make a bracha. If one wants to be able to make
a bracha, there's a simple suggestion that's made,
that the Shulchan Aruch suggests, which is one
could take some of the dough and bake it. If
one takes off even a small piece of dough and
bakes that dough for eating, then that makes
the entire dough obligated now in challah and
then one could take off challah with a bracha.
But if one just is going to boil the entire batch,
then one takes off challah without a bracha.