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What’s the right time to put up your cholent on Friday?
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Rabbi Jack Abramowitz, Director of Torah Content at OU Torah, explains how timing the cooking of your cholent can help avoid halachic issues on Friday night. Want to deepen your understanding of Hilchot Shabbat? Visit outorah.org/shabbos to learn more! #torah #orthodoxunion #shabbat #cholent
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How far in advance do you have to put the meat in
the cholent? I can't give you a number of minutes
because everyone's cholent is a different size and
not everyone's cooking temperature is the same.
But I can tell you this, the concern is that one
might turn up the fire in order to finish cooking
the cholent so that they can eat some on Friday
night. Therefore, one has two options. First,
one can put the cholent up early enough so
that it would be ready to eat on Friday night.
This standard is called Maachel Ben Derusai,
which is either 1/3 or 1/2 cooked and that's
enough to be considered edible. The
alternative is to put the cholent up
so late that it won't be ready Friday night no
matter what you do. It's only in between these
two times that's a problem, but you'll have
to determine for yourself how long that is.