Useful Tips For Coffee Filters

Coffee filters …. Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing even the large ones.

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

~ Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome… Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

~ 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.

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

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

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

~ Keep in the bathroom. They make great “razor nick fixers.”

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

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

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

~ In a pinch, use a coffee filter in place of a place or bowl for finger foods and snacks.

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

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

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

~ Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.

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