QUESTION

Riverdale, NY

Can one rely on the ladle as a keli sheini in order to (on Shabbat) put cheese on top of pareve chili once that pareve chili has been ladled from the crock pot insert (removed from the heating element) into a bowl?

ANSWER

If I understand you correctly, the question is whether the bowl is a keli shelishi, since we would be machmir for Kalei HaBishul if it were only a keli sheini. I think definitely yes.

First, it is not clear that we have to be choshesh that everything might