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Arms on Sides, Hands Open
The body is placed lying on its back, with arms on the sides and hands open. 
 
Shabbat: Food in Turned-On Oven
Situation Food is in a turned-on oven.
What To DoEven if the heating element is not on at that moment, once you have opened the door, you must remove any food from the oven. You may not leave food in there to be eaten later.
How To Wash Hands the One-Time Method
To wash hands the One-Time Method:
  • Fill the washing cup with at least 3.3 fl. oz. (99 ml) of water.
  • Pour enough water (may be as little as 1.3 fl. oz.--39 ml, or 1/6 cup) from the washing cup to completely cover your entire first hand (either hand may be first but it is proper to wash your right hand first).
  • Pour enough water to completely cover the second hand.
Note You do not need to pour any more than that or to break up the revi'it into two pours.
Reheating in Hot, Turned-Off Oven
Dry food that has been fully cooked before Shabbat may be heated in an oven if the oven is off even if the oven is hot (120° F--49° C--or more).
Note If the oven is on, you may not heat the food.
Frozen Food in Non-Kosher Oven
Frozen food is considered to be wet food regarding cooking it in a non-kosher oven or regarding its being neutral for dairy and meat issues: If the oven is not kosher, the frozen food must be double wrapped, even if the oven is clean.
Kashrut: Dairy/Meat: Food of One Gender Falls into Opposite Food
Note If either food is spicy, see below.
Yahrzeit: Candle: How Many Candles: One per Household
For a deceased parent on a yahrzeit or yizkor day, only one candle needs to be lit in each home where any of a parent's children are at sunset of that evening.
Examples
  • If two siblings (or more) are in the same residence on the night of the yahrzeit, just light one yahrzeit candle.
  • If all siblings are in different homes, each sibling lights one yahrzeit candle.

How To Check If a Microwave Oven Will Get Hot during Cooking
To determine if the walls of a microwave oven will get hot during cooking:
  • Boil water for as long as food would typically be cooked in that microwave oven, and
  • Touch the inside walls, floor, door, and ceiling
    • If the walls are too hot to touch, the walls may acquire the gender of any food cooked in the oven. (If the walls are already the opposite gender when cooking a food, the oven may become non-kosher.)
    • If the walls are not too hot to touch, then no change of status occurs.
Cooking Airline Meals in Non-Kosher Oven
Airline meals are usually non-liquid, so even though they are single-wrapped, it is OK to heat them in a non-kosher oven as long as no non-kosher food contacts the kosher food container.
 
Kosher Food Spilling in Non-Kosher Oven
If kosher food spills inside a non-kosher oven in which you are cooking uncovered kosher food (whether liquid or non-liquid), consult a rabbi about whether the uncovered kosher food may still be eaten.
Note In this case, it makes no difference whether the oven is clean or dirty because the spilled food is wet and takes on the non-kosher status of the oven. When the spilled food vaporizes, it carries the non-kosher essence to the kosher food or utensil.
Note If the non-kosher oven had not been used for more than 24 hours, the food is probably still kosher b'di'avad.  
Note This applies to food spilled either from the same utensil in which you were cooking the kosher food or from a different utensil.
How To Determine If Non-Kosher Oven Is Clean
To determine whether a non-kosher oven with black or brown spots is clean, scratch them:
  • If the substance crumbles, the spots are OK and you may bake non-liquid food in that oven without covering the food.
  • If the spots do not crumble or they remain immovable or come off in flakes rather than crumbles, consider the oven not clean.
 
Kashering an Electric or Gas Regular Oven
To kasher an oven that is not self-cleaning, you must:
  • Remove any deposits on the walls, racks, and window.
    Note If there are stains or deposits, you must clean them off or burn them off. If the stains or deposits do not come off after two cycles of using strong oven cleaner such as Easy Off, the oven is considered sufficiently clean.
  • Turn the oven on to its maximum temperature for 40 minutes.
    Note Self-cleaning ovens attain a higher maximum temperature than do non-self-cleaning ovens.
Baking Uncovered Food in Clean Non-Kosher Oven: Racks Not Clean
Place two layers of foil under the baking utensil if the oven is clean but the racks are not.
 
Kashering an Electric or Gas Self-Cleaning Oven
To kasher a self-cleaning electric or gas oven, you do not need to clean it first. Just run the self-clean cycle.
Baking Uncovered Food in a Clean, Non-Kosher Oven
You may cook food uncovered in a non-kosher oven if:
  • The oven rack and walls are clean, and
  • The food is not “liquid.”
Note Non-liquid is defined as not being liquid before cooking OR not being liquid after cooking, but the food does not need to be non-liquid at both times.
Example Examples of “non-liquid” foods:
  • Apple cobbler
  • Lasagna
  • Meat (that will create gravy at the end)
  • Pudding
  • Raw fish.