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The provided material is a casual social media post and its comments about pre-coffee brain fog, not news coverage.
What to know
- This is a casual social media post, not news coverage—a Bluesky user humorously described attempting to refrigerate boiling water while making coffee.
- The thread became a community sharing circle for absent-minded kitchen mistakes, with dozens of users describing similar pre-caffeine errors.
- Common themes include misplaced items (milk in pantry, cereal in fridge, glasses in fridge), wrong appliances (water in coffee grinder, coffee in mug instead of press), and burns from confusion while sleepy.
These are relatable, funny universal experiences that happen to everyone before caffeine.
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“It's the eternal Catch-22. Sometimes you need a post-coffee brain in order to make coffee, but you can't get a post-coffee brain until you make the coffee.”
onviewlesswings.bsky.social · Bluesky ↗
People describe serious errors or injuries alongside the humor, suggesting these lapses can have real consequences.
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“I held the door of the oven by the handle with a hot pad once and grabbed the rack with my bare hand. Yes it hurt.”
winstonsmythe.bsky.social · Bluesky ↗
lizbethmyles.bsky.social Bluesky user
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Users share similar pre-coffee mistakes in comments
The post generated a wave of comments from other Bluesky users describing their own absent-minded kitchen errors while making coffee or before consuming caffeine, ranging from pouring water into coffee grinders to putting milk in the pantry.
“I held the door of the oven by the handle with a hot pad once and grabbed the rack with my bare hand. Yes it hurt.”
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It's the eternal Catch-22. Sometimes you need a post-coffee brain in order to make coffee, but you can't get a post-coffee brain until you make the coffee.
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I am not saying anything. I once looked in the freezer for a new tea cup.
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I held the door of the oven by the handle with a hot pad once and grabbed the rack with my bare hand. Yes it hurt .
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User posts about boiling water refrigerator mishap
Liz Bethany Myles posted on Bluesky describing an attempt to put a kettle of freshly boiled water in the fridge while making coffee, attributing the error to her brain not yet having caffeine.
“In attempting to make coffee, I just tried to put a kettle of freshly boiled water in the fridge. Thank you, brain, very reassuring.”
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In attempting to make coffee, I just tried to put a kettle of freshly boiled water in the fridge. Thank you, brain, very reassuring.
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In fairness, isn’t it preferable for the water to be just below boiling for coffee? In which case this is not a bad thing to do.
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I've put weirder things in the fridge. Tell yourself you secretly want a slushie for breakfast.
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What people are saying 19 voices from 1 site · best of 82 · verbatim
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When life hands you a lemon, make iced coffee.
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Once I looked all over for my house keys. Eventually I found them in the freezer. No one played a prank, I lived alone, I put them in there myself.
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I once made cupless coffee, or started to. I don't recommend it.
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I grabbed the hot iron burner after I removed an over boiled teakettle to wipe up the spilled water. 2d degree burns. I not have an induction cooktop.
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I'm almost positive this is why they invented the scheduled coffee maker system. That way, after the first cup of coffee, all subsequent cups should be easier to obtain.
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Thank you, everyone, for the giggles! As a senior, I find myself doing strange things and wondering if this is "it" for my brain. You guys give me hope! It's "just" the stress and life. So relieved!!
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I came to these comments to say this. For a decade now I have kept an "Alzheimer's List" to track such things. So distracted events are not so age related. Comforting. Our mistakes make us "Normal." 😀
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Last evening I put the container of cheese in the cupboard instead of the fridge. I discovered this when I tried to put the box of plastic wrap in the cupboard.
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It is if you have glass shelving in your fridge… Yikes.
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I put the lid of my coffee maker on top of my coffee cup, before the coffee was even made. #mondayistsaturdayever
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Wait until you start finding your glasses, phone, or wrist watch in the fridge. That's how you know it's time to stop putting candles in your birthday cakes.
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Well, my ADHD brain wanted to make drip coffee yesterday l, filled the pot with water and instead of pouring it into the coffee maker, opened the microwave and almost put the pot in it, before realising what I was doing. 🙄
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Reminds me of the morning I poured the boiling water of my cornflakes...
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dear. you've made me feel so much better. in light of my somewhat advanced years, i've been a bit concerned about my mental health decline. it's comforting to know that sort of thing happens to even some younger folks. (haven't put sneakers in the freezer... yet.)
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Not knowing how coffee pods work, I buggered up two hotel coffee machines by forcing the pods open and pouring the contents directly into the machine.
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That sounds fine. I put the milk in the pantry and the cereal in the fridge
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i took my partner’s phone to work instead of mine. mine napped in the pocket of my robe all day. my partner was unable to use the smartboard and is a teacher. that’s pretty bad too. we all do it
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Or switched it on, went to do something else, and when I return the water is luke warm already.
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I almost put a tube of Pringles in the fridge last week.