Warming up Food in a Public Microwave

Quiz

1 - When can uncooked food allowed to be placed on top of a pot already on the plata (blech)?

• Even if it will become boiling hot.
• Only if it will just warm up.
• This can never be done on Shabbat.

2 - Is warming up cooked food considered cooking (and therefore forbidden on Shabbat) to?

• If the schnitzels are cold, it’s cooking.
• No, as there is no “cooking after cooking”.
• Only if it is still hot.

3 - Do all poskim (decision-making rabbis) agree that food can’t be placed directly on a hot plate during Shabbat?

• All agree
• All disagree
• Some agree while others do not