Losh (Kneading) 🍞 - Breaking Down the 39 Melachot

Are you allowed to make mashed potatoes on Shabbat  by pouring water into potato flakes? One of the   melachot of Shabbat, the melacha of losh, which  means kneading, which involves pouring a liquid   into a thicker substance to create a form of a  dough, and therefore making mashed potatoes on   Shabbat would not be allowed. However, there are  times when you add liquid to another substance   and it creates a thinner consistency, one you can  actually pour. In such a case when it's not thick   and clumpy but it's one that you can pour, you're  allowed to make it on Shabbat with two conditions.   Number one, you mix the ingredients in a different  order. So for example, if you were making baby   cereal, you'd put the milk in the bowl first and  then the cereal afterwards. And then when you're   mixing it, you wouldn't mix it in the normal way.  You would mix it in a strange way. For example,   by making crisscross. And this does not only  apply to babies. It applies to anytime you're   making a thinner mixture. It's allowed with  those two shinuyim, those two differences.