Chopping salad, mashing a banana for a baby, squeezing a lemon - all touch grinding and squeezing (mefarek). Understand the rules.
There is grinding only with things that grow from the ground. Many poskim permit chopping finely close to the meal; some are strict and chop a bit larger. Mashing a banana with a fork is permitted by most when it is edible as is, preferably with a slight change.
Squeezing olives and grapes is forbidden by Torah (Shabbat קמ״ה ע״א (145a)). Other fruits - rabbinically forbidden if commonly squeezed for drink. Squeezing onto food (lemon on salad) is permitted, since the liquid goes to food (SA OC 320:6).
A study framework only - for a practical question, ask a rabbi.
Write a list of kitchen prep to do before Shabbat.
Smart Friday prep - a calm Shabbat.
Test yourself before marking the lesson complete.
Squeezing lemon onto salad -
