Important...Breaking off challah for Bracha

Zus

Fri, May 09 2008, 7:44 am

I make the dough and then take the challah. I burn it in my normal oven while I'm shaping the rest of the dough and letting it rise the 2nd time.
I put my oven on the hottest setting, spread some tin foil on the bottom and make the piece of challah as flat as I can, then I put it on the bottom of the oven on top of the tine foil. It usually burns black within minutes and then I throw it away.
Then there is still enough time to cool the oven to the wanted temperature before the shaped challes go in.
The disadvantage of doing it this way is that the whole house still smells of charcoal and smoke hours later Sad

↑ mummiedearest

Fri, May 09 2008, 9:37 am

TzenaRena wrote:

mummiedearest wrote:

just looked in the ksa... says nothing about not burning while baking.

two Rabbonim (and a third one during a Kashrus shiur) specifically told me that one can do it in the oven but must be careful NOT to burn it while baking any other food .

ok, so as promised we asked a rav.

the rav said I should not burn while baking, but that I can eat the challahs I already burned with anyway.
as to why, we will have a more in depth discussion with the rav over shabbos just to satisfy our own curiousity.