Sabbath Mode on my New Oven
 

I'm installing a new wall oven and I was reading the installation book - I noticed that this oven has "Sabbath Mode". What is that? Does anybody know and why?

Just wondering...

Wouldn't that be to power it down as per religious belief? I believe it would keep settings as opposed to turning off the breaker.

I'm pretty sure that there's something about Jewish folks not being able to use electricity on the weekends or something like that. Some refrigerators also have a Sabbath mode. They keep your stuff cold. Maybe the light doesn't come on inside too.

We bought a fridge probably 17-20 years ago that had a Sabbath mode. I thought it was interesting and looked it up.

Another thing that I learned about while watching a Real Estate reality show on HGTV years ago is that there are rules that have to be adhered to for a kitchen to be Kosher, which means that a lot of stuff needs to be duplicated.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4639764/jewish/What-Is-a-Kosher-Kitchen.htm

I never had much/any interaction with anyone Jewish growing up. I'm not sure if I ever met or knew anyone that was Jewish until starting the job that I'm at now, so that means that I would have been in my 40s. And even then, I never really hear anything about it. Most of my knowledge comes from TV or movies or stuff that I've read when curious about things.

Yep
https://www.whirlpool.com/blog/kitchen/what-is-sabbath-mode.html

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And submit their invoice.

I worked for a city that had a large Jewish population and there was an issue with them having to pick up a lobby phone to get police help. I did a little bit of research and my basic understanding is that it comes from an ancient idea of not “moving the flame” they can leave lights or appliances on during the sabbath, but can’t turn them on or off.

Motion sensing lights are a bit problematic for them.

We literally put a bell above the ceiling of the dispatch room with a pull cord out in the lobby for them to pull.

They did have reasonable exceptions like if it was an emergency, they could use their phone to call the police, fire or ambulance.

My best friend in college is Jewish. I went home with him to visit his family on school breaks on many occasions. They were reformed Jews. I don't know all the rules for the various levels of commitment to the original laws, but they loved their BBQ ribs and bacon. Mrs Sherman's parents escaped Stalin in Russia, and some old family recipes were, um, "interesting." We had tongue sandwiches for lunch one afternoon. It was actually pretty good after I stopped thinking about how I was chewing on a cow's tongue and paid attention to the flavor.

I'm guessing that folks that eat ribs and bacon are not terribly concerned with mixing milk and meat.

I had tongue a couple of times when on a boat in the Amazon. It was very tasty. It's the texture that gets me. I'll eat it if it's placed in front of me, but I wouldn't ever ask for it. Maybe in a sandwich the texture wouldn't bother me as much.

I just learned something new!

.... my appliances have always been heathens ;)

Is it Black?

My mother packed our lunches with beef tongue sandwiches at least twice a week...we loved them.
Sliced about 1/4 inch thick with mayo on white bread.

The only bad part was when she cooked the tongue the night before. The boiling water smelled bad.

I thought it would blast black Sabbath's first album as you cook your favorite meal. Haven't heard that or read that, interesting.

halitosis!

If you have seen where a cow's tongue has been....

After cooking (boiling), the outer skin was always peeled off in one or two pieces and thrown away. It's a very tender meat...and tasty.:)

That be sorta Paranoid...

Actually this is pretty accurate.. Me a Protestant (Episcopalian) have some very good friends of mine were raised Conservative Jews.. they strictly observed the sabbath .. It was funny because if I was at there place Friday after sundown, or on Saturday until Sundown.. they would not flip a light switch, answer the phone etc... but since I was Goy I could flip switches answer there phone.. Turn on the guitar amps (my friends are amazing musicians)

I was a Goy who turned the lights, A/C, stove on and off...

Even in the most conservative neighborhoods they have a workaround the, "Eruv"

Its basically an defined boundary agreed to by the community where certain Sabbath rules are waived

Wiki: Eruvim


I know this post was pure religion... but it is just information..

Yes, super tender and tasty. I would agree.

Cool, thanks for the info. Like I said, I have had minimal experience with Jews, so this sort of info is very interesting to me.

There’s always a workaround…

As a [strict] Jewish friend once observed - that’s why we have so many rabbis and lawyers, everyone’s looking for a loophole…

She was fully kosher - two fridges, two sets of dishes, no shrimpses, beef cooked to death…

My Viking has Sabbath mode. When set it will keep the temperature at whatever temp was set prior to turning on Sabbath mode. Also the oven light will not come on when the door is open and you cannot change the temperature without turning off the Sabbath mode.
Assume that it allows for cooking during Sabbath without operating controls and violating a Sabbath law.

In Israel some buildings/hotels have Sabbath mode for their elevators. They go up and down all day, stopping at every floor. Very annoying and slow, but no buttons have to be pushed.

I didn’t understand at the time, but we built a house years ago, and they requested two dishwashers.

Eating a tongue?
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Yup.

Was raised conservative but thankfully it didn't stick...

Separate dishes, etc. for meat and milk. A second set of them for Passover (no leavened products, etc).

Reform are the easy going non-strict

Conservatives are more strict and tend to try and keep kosher, etc. but do not take it to extremes, though some do

Orthodox are very strict


One of the more orthodox members of our local synagogue is a die hard Gator Football fan. He's had an arrangement since the 60s to show up Friday afternoon, show his ticket, etc. so on Saturday he can go to main office and bypass ticket gate, so he doesn't have to carry the ticket or cause the ticket-taker to work. Why yes, Howard is indeed a lawyer, how did you know? :D

We have a very large Jewish community near me. A good friend has a sweet gig going, she actually goes around to different households and turns stuff on and off for them
Makes nice coin doing it too.

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Never ceases to amaze me how people try to find get arounds and loopholes in their God’s orders. I have to imagine that isn’t going to go over good on judgement day!

My dinner cooked using the Black Sabbath mode on my oven.

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That's called 'lengua' here. Frickin awesome on tacos. I never give it a second thought and is actually one of my go to orders.

Good, but fictional, film about an Orthodox Community in London. Staring Mrs. James Bond.

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Im glad Im not the only one that had the first thought of : Hopefully it blasts Ozzy at 106dB