Gluten-free(GF) bread does not contain wheat. It usually does not contain oats, spelt, rye or barley either. GF bread can be made from flours of the following: potato, corn, tapioca, millet, garbanzo bean, rice (white or brown), hemp, arrowroot, and buckwheat. Most of these are mezonos. How is one on a gluten-free diet able to say either hamotzi or amen to hamotzi? I would appreciate all responses.
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Posted 9 months ago #
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Only gluten-free oat would enable a hamotzi bracha. (There is a minority opinion that oat is not one of the 5 grains requiring hamotzi.)If O/j or a/j is added, that would be a mezonos. Rice is mezonos. Many you mention are haadomo, some shehakol. Not sure why you feel most of your list is mezonos.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Gluten free challah and matzos are made from oats
Posted 9 months ago # -
lesschumras,
I agree with you on the GF matzos. However, I am finding that most kosher GF challah is made from rice. Unless I make it myself, which is not possible at this time, the bakeries and companies with acceptable kosher certification that I have found online have only rice challah. If you are aware of some that offer oat challah, please post the URLs.
Posted 9 months ago # -
I forget the name. There was something called Heaven's Bakery or Heavenly Bakery that makes oat Challah. But a fair number of Poskim do hold that oats aren't Hamotzi as the cause of being Hamotzi is the fact that they have gluten.
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KATZ is a company that makes certified GF rolls and challahs. I believe they are made from oats and ARE hamotzi. Some GI docs believe oats are NOT GF, and some oats actually are not because of their proximity to the wheat fields and fear of cross contamination with wheat.
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IF you accept oats as one of the hameshet haminim, and you are kovea seudah, and you are eating a k'beitzah, they you may wash and recite hamotzi, as you would with any other mezonos. If it is taking the place of challa at the shabbos meal, requirements #s 2 and #3 are met. Rice, because it is definitely not of the 5 types, would not require washing hamotzi, despite the fact that SOME Jews treat it with the mezonos bracho.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Sam2, I took a sound beating for that stance (hametz dependent on gluten) in my oat matzo rant. Who are the major shittos you reference?
Posted 9 months ago # -
I'm making bread today with spent grain from beer making (the grain left after the sparge). I'll let y'all know how it turns out.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Twisted: R' Schachter and he has a whole list of those who agreed with him (I don't quite recall who, but I think he always started by quoting R' Shlomo Zalman, but I could be mistaken). It's the one Shittah of his that's bothered me for years. I think it's against a B'feirush Yerushalmi.
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