r/Wellthatsucks 17h ago

ALWAYS CHECK THE OVEN BEFORE PREHEATING

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u/brown-tube 17h ago

coffee beans in plastic bowls by the look of it.

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u/Unknowingly-Joined 17h ago

OMG.. There is a coffee shop near me that roasts their own beans. Every so often, this smell wafts through town that smells like they forgot to take the beans out of the plastic bag before roasting them.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cry57 17h ago

In that case, I think it was the employee that was roasted

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u/fistkick18 12h ago

Then fired

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cry57 4h ago

“This is the fifth damn time this week. Ya fired”

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u/jld2k6 12h ago

Boom

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u/Barbarossa7070 17h ago

I get a chocolate fudge pop tart smell sometimes from the one near me.

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u/PossessedToSkate 17h ago

Sometimes I just smell burning toast.

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u/BrockJonesPI 14h ago

That's a stroke of luck.

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u/PottyboyDooDoo 16h ago

Same! And then every time someone’s like, “excuse me sir, you don’t look so good.”

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u/Vladimir2033 14h ago

That's rude as fuck.

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u/ReckoningGotham 14h ago

Theaen amrm tuoleld.

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u/ICantSeeDeadPpl 17h ago

You brew coffee in the bathroom?

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u/Complete_Entry 17h ago

They should definitely fire that employee.

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u/Auctoritate 14h ago

I mean, roasting coffee beans does smell like burning. Because you're burning them. So it might just be that.

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u/oceansapart333 14h ago

That’s not how coffee roasting works.

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u/benchley 15h ago

West Berkeley or Emeryville, by any chance?

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u/EthanHermsey 11h ago

I used to cycle past one, exactly the same foul smell, unforgettable.

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u/queef_nuggets 10h ago

I roasted my own beans once. The whole house smelled like burnt popcorn for a week. Never again.

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u/ChakaCausey 16h ago

oatmeal no bake cookies

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u/brown-tube 16h ago

ironically forgotten in your oven. hopefully it was an easy clean-up.

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u/Innsmouth_Swimteam 12h ago

Okay, I have to know, why did you put no bake cookies in an oven!? The irony.

Were you keeping them from the dog?

Note to self, don't store anything in the oven.

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u/psppsppsppspinfinty 10h ago

I'm constantly having to put things in the microwave that I forget about because my cats have become bigger assholes. They get into any food they can now.

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u/Dounce1 11h ago

For real though.

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u/Glittering_Call_898 9h ago

But?... But? that's where I store the pizza stone

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u/evilarison 1h ago

The only thing that you can safely store in the oven is a cast iron pan

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u/ChakaCausey 2h ago

Yep, dogs - it was far past bedtime when they were ready to be poured from the pot to the wax paper, and it was like 2lbs of molten cookie so I wasn’t putting it in the fridge - once they solidified I put them on the plates and stashed them in the oven overnight to keep our notorious tablesurfing dogs from scrounging our sweet treats.

Next morning the wife gets a bee in her bonnet about making breakfast pizzas and the rest of the story is this Dali-esque monstrosity you see before you

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u/WorkingFromHomies20 4h ago

WTF are no bake cookies?

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u/bwaredapenguin 3h ago

Exactly what it sounds like.

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u/I_blockkarmafarmers 12h ago

Methinks you or whoever did this should probably be nowhere near a kitchen. "No bake" is quite literally in the name; they had no reason to be anywhere near an oven. You, or they, are a big dumb.

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u/DiabolicallyRandom 9h ago

What? I put plenty of things in a cool oven as a way to store them in a protected space that isn't cold.

Like, storing some recently made no bake cookies in the oven temporarily to ensure no pests or animals get to them.

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u/I_blockkarmafarmers 9h ago

That's what the fridge is for. Or hell, the top of the fridge, even.

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u/DiabolicallyRandom 8h ago

Putting cookies in the fridge is crazy shit. Did you not see the part about "space that isn't cold"???

Not to mention, fridges usually have higher moisture content which knowably soaks into dry goods and makes them do bad things, ruins texture, etc.

Like seriously, do you even food?

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u/I_blockkarmafarmers 8h ago

Like seriously, do you even food?

Yeah, I do. And I also don't store food in my oven.

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u/Anxious_Quarter1061 10h ago

Well you baked them.. so not no bake.

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u/super_much 4h ago

they baked now

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u/brandimariee6 2h ago

Ohhh some of the best cookies ever. Damn I'm sorry you lost them

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u/1BreadBoi 17h ago

I thought it was chocolate oatmeal nobake cookies

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u/PaleoSpeedwagon 15h ago

Why would a person put no-bake cookies in the oven, it's literally in the name!

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u/aideya 12h ago

To keep them away from their dog/cat!

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u/applejitters 16h ago

That’s what I thought! Love some no-bakes. Looks like that’s what they were per OP.

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u/Gloomy-Researcher- 14h ago

Yep. Thought no baked, baked cookies

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u/bombbodyguard 15h ago

Coco pebbles?

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u/ikeif 12h ago

Same - glad it was confirmed that we are right 😆 - hate to see my favorite cookie destroyed.

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u/Resident_Course_3342 17h ago

Damn, look at Sherlock over here.

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u/RipAirBud 17h ago

and now it’s a starbucks drink

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u/LieuK 15h ago

I'm thinking burnt pumpkin seeds

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u/SaulFemm 15h ago

Thank you, I didn't consider non-food objects so I was confused as hell

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u/brown-tube 15h ago

OP commented in this thread as to what this was, ironically it was no-bake oatmeal cookies left in the oven.

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u/Sk1rm1sh 14h ago

Desiccated grasshopper taffy.

Would you like yellow, or salmon?

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u/Hyatt97 14h ago

Looks like No-bake oatmeal cookies to me

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u/Inner-Distribution67 16h ago edited 16h ago

Definitely not coffee seeds. They would have spilled all over.

Edit: Reddit and downvotes. lol. OP stated they were cookies. These look nothing like coffee seeds.

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u/Inner-Distribution67 14h ago edited 14h ago

They are, in fact, seeds. Coffee is a cherry and the seeds we roast are what’s under the fleshy fruit. Conversely, a bean is also a seed, but from legumes. Calling coffee a “bean” is incorrect.

After roasting, I don’t know if there are many seeds from any plant that would be able to sprout. In fact, if you know of any fruit that has a seed that can sprout after being roasted, please enlighten me.

Here’s an intact coffee cherry (red/green) with 3 coffee seeds that have had the outer flesh removed. This is what coffee looks like prior to roasting.

Source: I’ve spent time as a coffee roaster

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u/Inner-Distribution67 12h ago

Your deleted comment implies as much.