Tout ce qui est entré dans l'eau chaude [c'est-à-dire qui a été cuite] la veille du sabbat peut être trempé dans l'eau chaude le jour du shabbat. Et tout ce qui n'est pas entré dans l'eau chaude la veille du sabbat peut être rincé à l'eau chaude le jour du shabbat, [car son rinçage n'est pas sa cuisson; mais il peut ne pas être trempé]— sauf les vieux poissons salés, [un an après leur salage], les petits poissons salés et les colias espagnoles [un poisson à peau fine, dont le rinçage à l'eau chaude est l'achèvement de sa cuisson], car leur rinçage est l'achèvement de leur traitement.
Bartenura on Mishnah Shabbat
כל הבא בחמין – that was boiled.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Shabbat
Introduction
This mishnah deals with soaking food in hot water on Shabbat.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Shabbat
מדיחין – since rinsing it is not its cooking/preparation, but we don’t steep them.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Shabbat
Whatever was put into hot water before Shabbat, may be soaked in hot water on Shabbat; Things that are already cooked cannot be again “cooked”, since the definition of “cooking” is using heat to turn something raw into something not raw. Therefore, if something was already cooked before Shabbat, it can be put back in hot water on Shabbat without this being considered “cooking.” In other words, “there is no cooking something that has already been cooked.”
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Bartenura on Mishnah Shabbat
חוץ מן המליח הישן – a salty fish that passed a year since it had been salted.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Shabbat
But whatever was not put into hot water before Shabbat may [only] be rinsed with hot water on Shabbat, except old salted fish, small salted fish, and Spanish colius, because their rinsing completes their preparation. If it was not cooked in hot water before Shabbat, then it may not be soaked in hot water on Shabbat, because that would be cooking. However, it still may be rinsed in hot water because rinsing is generally not considered to be cooking. The mishnah lists a few exceptions to this rule. These are all small fish which have thin skins and can be cooked by merely rinsing them in hot water. Since “their rinsing completes their preparation” they may not even be rinsed in hot water.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Shabbat
וקוליס האספנין – a fish whose shell is thin and rinsing it in hot waters is the completion of its cooking.
