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Are you allowed to cook in the sukkah?
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Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher Recorder of Psak and Policy, breaks down the answer.
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One should not cook in their sukkah. A sukkah,
aside from it being a place where you live for
the week of Sukkot, it also has kedusha, it's a
holy place. There are certain activities that one
should not do in their sukkah. Included in that
is cooking. Not only that, but after you cook,
there's a question of can you bring a pot of food
to the sukkah? Some poskim say if it's normal way
during the year, you bring a pot of soup to your
dining room table, and then you could do that in
a sukkah as well. But most people who would bring
out bowls of soup, they don't bring their pot to
the table. Then they should not bring the pots
into the sukkah either. One shouldn't even have
dirty dishes in their sukkah. As soon as you
finish eating, you should clear away the dishes.
One shouldn't have a garbage can in their
sukkah because of the kedusha of the sukkah.