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This problem gave me shabbos afternoon migrains for about a year until my wife figured it out. I was learning a 5am seder with a chavrusa, who would rig a machine to grind the beans and brew the coffee as we were finishing shacharit banetz. He would mix his beans the night before. It was great coffee, and even better seder. On shabbos, we would suffice with instant. This was because we, and I in particular lived by the psak of Rav Moshe z’tl, who was on record against an “automated shabbos” and that is was b’koshi that they were matir the shabbos clock for lighting. It turned out that I am very sensitive to caffeine, and the difference between the weekday brew and shabboss were enough to trigger a withdrawal headache. Eshes chayil mi yimtza….