Q. A non-Jewish caregiver who needed to cook the food for a patient, could not wait any longer for a family member to turn on the stove, so the caregiver took the hand of her client and pushed it to turn on the stove. Is this bishul akum? Can the food be used? Are the utensils still kosher?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that if the caregiver is trusted in general with other issues of kashrus including meat and milk separation (There may be a recording camera available), one can be lenient in regards to the food in case of need and more so after the fact on the utensils.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
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