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Pouring Hot Water onto Milk

Question

Is it permissible to add more hot water from an urn or kettle to a cup of coffee with milk? Is this permissible lechatchilah, and if one needs to be careful about steam rising, how can this be done technically?

Answer

Shalom u’vrachah 

It is permitted to pour, provided that the kettle is far from the liquid and hot steam from the cup will not reach the kettle.

Answered 12 November 2026 How answers are reviewed
Rabbi Israel Cohen
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Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
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