Reply To: Fresh Coffee on Shabbos

ROB, how can you make that distinction? Are you saying it is a gromo – or some other logic? What if I said in a similar vein that a coffeemaker is not doing any melocho in itself (just think of the case where I did not put any water in the coffeemaker) – it is the fact that water is in the reservoir that makes it an issue of bishul.

When I point the sprinkler at the grass, the sprinkler is set up to do melocho. If I had pointed it at the sidewalk, I agree it would be a different issue.