May one wrap in tin foil a Kugel which is inside a tin and place it on the Blech before Shabbos?[1]
No, due to the prohibition of Hatmana Shemosif Hevel. [One should be stringent even if his intent is not at all to insulate the food as a result.[2]] What one may do instead is simply cover the top of the Kugel with a sheet of tinfoil and make sure that the tinfoil does not cover maturity of the sides of the tin.
[1] See even regarding actual food wrapped in tinfoil and all the more so would this apply here where the actual tin is wrapped in tinfoil: Igros Moshe 4:74 Hatmana 3; Rav Shlomo Zalman Aurbach brought in Shabbos Kehalacha ibid; See Mahdurah Basra 259; Pnei Shabbos 12; Maor Hashabbos 1:9; Koveitz Mibeis Levi 6:36; Shabbos Kehalacha Vol. 2 page 41; Piskeiy Teshuvos 258:4
[2] See Igros Moshe ibid from which it can be learned that even in this situation it is prohibited by actual food, and certainly by an actual pot
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