Cooking and keeping food warm on Yom Tov

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Layokee ↓

Fri, Sep 27 2024, 5:10 pm

I'm wondering how everyone cooks and warms up their food on Yom tov.
I think food tastes best fresh. But I don't want to have my stove top on the whole Yom tov.
A hot plate is great to warm up food that I prepared in advance, but a hot plate plus a stove top makes my kitchen so hot.
How do you work oyur the food on a Yom tov?

SuperWify

Fri, Sep 27 2024, 5:23 pm

Keep your oven on low 225’

NotInNJMommy

Fri, Sep 27 2024, 5:32 pm

Keep my oven on low for reheating, and I use a crock pot to cook or reheat soup.(I suggest crock pots with manual controls vs electronic)

You can also use the crock pot to reheat meat or smaller metal containers of sides.

Itsallfromhim

Fri, Sep 27 2024, 5:48 pm

Leaving the oven on isn't dangerous?

Golde

Yesterday at 4:34 pm

I prepare everything in advance and reheat it on the platta. It's not amazing but that's what I do.

Bnei Berak 10

Yesterday at 5:01 pm

If you have a laundry room closet to kitchen but your Shabbos platta in there and not in kitchen.
I use a blech for heating up food for YT and I have a special device which shuts off the gas just like a Shabbos timer.

imaima

Yesterday at 5:03 pm

Golde wrote:

I prepare everything in advance and reheat it on the platta. It's not amazing but that's what I do.

Yes
I dont want to cook on yom tov

ra_mom ↓

Yesterday at 8:03 pm

I use the hot plate and it is amazing. I make my menu according to what tastes good rewarmed. We make lots of fresh colorful salads on Y"T.

seeker ↓

Yesterday at 11:25 pm

I make food in advance as much as possible and aim for things that taste good reheated. Meatballs freeze and reheat great - I make a sweet recipe so it's yomtov-dig. So do roasts and corned beef. Chicken on the bone I serve the first night so it's very fresh. If you want to serve chicken the second day, cook it only just enough at first - if I'm eating chicken right away I like to cook it long enough to get really soft but if you do that to reheat then it will get overdone. Salmon I'll serve the first day, then it's gefilte which is fine a day late, by the third day I don't think anyone feels like fish anymore anyway.

↑ Layokee

Today at 12:56 am

Does anyone make fresh food on Yom tov?

ysydmom

Today at 1:22 am

I cook everything before and heat up as needed. I don't cook on yom tov as their is no time due to being in shul all day and at night the men come home around licht bentching time and it's very late. for night meals we do the simanim and fish and soup and then usually we are done with our meal. During the day I heat up a roast and some cutlets or deli roll while we are in shul. I make lot's of salads and that's all we need.

It doesn't make sense to cook on yom tov. The only thing I might make is more gefilta fish if we run out for Shabbos which I can make on Friday after the seudah.

↑ ra_mom

Today at 1:25 am

Layokee wrote:

Does anyone make fresh food on Yom tov?

When I make fresh food on YT, I'm working too hard.

↑ seeker

Today at 1:28 am

Layokee wrote:

Does anyone make fresh food on Yom tov?

For me it depends on the time yom tov comes out and what else is going on in my life. If I can get it all together before, great. If I can't, also great. I try to roll with the punches. I prefer not to have the stove on but if I need to it's not the end of the world. I think being able to deal as needed is more important than having the Perfect (tm) system.

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