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Can this PAREVE CHOLENT taste as good as the real thing?

19K views · Jul 29, 2026

Rabbi Shais Taub

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  1. 0:00This is traditional Shabbos [music] cholent, slow-cooked, crock-pot cooked overnight. And the surprising thing about it,…
  2. 1:01you're putting MSG in your cholent, it's going to be next level. >> Perfect. Paprika. >>…
  3. 2:04two separate. Parve is neither meat nor dairy. Now, you're going to say to me, "Why…
  4. 3:06And our spices are just salt and pepper, paprika, not even smoked, just regular paprika, little…
  5. 4:08The onions are basically creating coating on the bottom to keep the beans from burning even…
  6. 5:41my hand. Okay, yeah. See that? However many tablespoons that is. MSG A lot of controversy…
  7. 6:43The last real layer is the barley. And the reason that barley goes on top is…
  8. 7:44want a thick cholent. The last thing I'm going to do is I'm going to add…
  9. 8:47individual slices. Now, we're going to scoop this up. We're going to go from the bottom.…
  10. 9:47smells like a gishmaka cholent. >> And you wouldn't know that it's parve. You would assume…

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