Are you allowed to add salt to your soup on Shabbat? If no, could you please explain why?
Thank you for your question. It is permitted to add salt to your soup on Shabbat it it is in the bowl that you are eating from, but not while it is in the pot on the fire.
Could you please explain to me why the salt can be added to the sit is in the bowl but not if it is in the pot?
Hi! Since the salt is cooked when it is being processed, there is no problem of cooking it on Shabbat. However, we may not put it in the pot in which the soup was cooked, because when placing something in the pot it gives the appearance as if you are cooking, which is Rabbinically prohibited. There is no such problem when it is being placed in the bowl.
Take care,
Rabbi Aaron Tendler