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Old 02-28-2010, 02:01 PM   #1
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Default Coffee Filter Uses

Who knew there were so many uses for coffee filters? Elaine (Charmedp3) sent me an email with this in it. See if you find a few things in this list that you'd use them for.

Feel free to add any ideas you have.

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Better than paper towels and a lot less expensive...

1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.

2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome... Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll leave windows sparkling.

3. Protect China by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.

4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.

5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.

6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.

7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.

8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.

9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.

10. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.

11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.

12. Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters..

13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them.. It soaks out all the grease.

14. Keep in the bathroom... They make great "razor nick fixers."

15. As a sewing backing. Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliquéing soft fabrics.

16. Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors.

17. Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews.

18. Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car..

19. Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills.

20. Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies... Saves on having extra bowls to wash.

21. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.

22. Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.

23. Use them to sprout seeds. Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a plastic baggie until they sprout.

24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phone book..

25. Use as a disposable "snack bowl" for popcorn, chips, etc.

OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS TOO!

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I got that e-mail from my mom and have been using some of those recomendations since.

blotting pizza, windows, kids snacks (and sandwiches), and I used them to separate my china when we moved
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My kids made flowers out of them many, many years ago.....
I've strained many different things with coffee filters.
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I love the idea of blotting pizza. What causes that anyway? Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

Angela, the kids would have fun creating stuff with them. Maybe even fold them up and cut them to make snowflakes?

How about making little ghosts at Halloween, kind of like the Kleenex ghosts.

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I think I've seen coffee filter snowflakes displayed at the school, now that you mention it. They were rainbow coloured though. Coffee filters are cool to paint. Use diluted paint and just have the kids drip or blot it onto the filter. The colour spreads and the different colours run into each other. Always pretty. That's what we did with the flowers too. We used the cone type of filters, painted them and stuck them on a green pipe cleaner with a construction paper leaf on it. Very simple, yet always pretty. The kids loved them. I've done the flowers with a daycare group I helped out with, the class that I did my co-op with (behavioural kids) and my own children. All with success.

I use coffee filters in Hubby's coffee maker too
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