Hotplate with Different Settings
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Question
Thank you very much for the answer, but I want to clarify one thing: it turns out that according to this, most hotplates or possibly all of them do not need to be covered even if they have buttons, since they do not increase the fire as we wrote above. This is difficult for me to understand because all the rabbis of our time and the previous generation have said that a hotplate with buttons needs to be covered, and no one has said that if it does not increase the fire, it does not need to be covered. It is possible to explain that they did not know about this reality, or perhaps in their time, this was not common, so they did not speak about it. But I want an answer to this, and if possible, to include this in the logic of our great teacher Rabbi Amram Fried, shlita. Thank you very much.
Answer
Hello
On a hotplate with different settings and heat levels, it is forbidden to use it without it being covered and sealed.
On the hotplate you described in the previous question, there is no addition of heat or increase of fire, unlike a cooking stove that has different levels.
Source
Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim, Siman 253