#429 Can I Taste Food on a Taanis Erev Shabbos?
(On Asarah Beteveth on Friday this year) Can one preparing the food for Shabbat on Friday, taste it without swallowing, to see if it is well prepared? Do you then make a bracha?
Remoh (O.H. 567: 1) rules that on a communal fasting one should not taste the food without swallowing. Mishna Berura (ibid. 6) however permits when someone is preparing a mitzvah banquet, to taste a tiny bit, without swallowing any, to ascertain that it is salted and flavored properly. (See also Pri Megodim 250: 1 and Piskey Teshuvos ibid.)
Horav Shlomo Millers’s Shlit’a opinion is that if it is necessary to taste the food l’kvod Shabbos as above, you don’t make a brocho.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a
Answered by: Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
Published: December 11, 2013