Q. Crackers or wafers made from wheat and advertised as bagel crisps or slices of authentically toasted bagels, that indeed taste accordingly and look like rings cut from a bagel, is their brocho mezonos or hamotzi?
A.
It is unlikely that actual bagels were used for making these sliced
round toasted wafers and they were probably baked in long tubes of
bagel dough and then sliced
or using a similar mass industrial process.
Vessein
Brocho (p. 466) maintains that toasted bagels and pita chips when
specially manufactured
for
the production of
toasted chips, will require a Mezonos brocho. However, if they were
made
from
left over bagels or parts thereof, the brocho should be Hamotzi.
Horav
Shlomo Miller's Shlit'a opinion is that since even
the first kind,
do look like slices from bagels (Tzuras Hapa'as) and they taste
accordingly, one must wash
Netilas Yodaim
and recite Hamotzi on them. The Rov added that they should also
be Pas
Yisroel.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as advised by Horav Shlomo Miller and Horav Aharon Miller Shlit'a
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