Reply To: Waiter’s finger was in my my soup!

The soup was bubbling hot and Hatzola treated the waiter for 4th degree burns (there is no pain with fourth-degree burns because damage to the nerves prevents any feeling) – definitely yad soledes according to most machmir shita.

Besides, Reb Moshe holds that yad soledes is slightly higher than normal body temperature of 99 degrees – not very hot at all! See Igrot Moshe Orach Chaim 4:74 bishul 103 that a temperature of 110 °F (43 °C) must be considered yad soledet bo as a matter of practice, he noted that definitive yad soledet bo might be as high as 160 °F (71 °C), and we go lechumra on either temperature.

ubiquitin – water used to boil live lobster be kosher – Yes if it remained alive. please provide a source so I can check.

Would the water be ossur if the lobster dies while it’s claw is being boiled vs water muttar if lobster dies shortly after it was removed from the water after its claw was boiled? (In our case, if waiter dies while his limb is boiled in soup – then soup is ossur, but if waiter dies from severe burns shortly after he is hospitalized, then the soup is muttar?