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Better than paper towels and a lot less expensive...
Coffee filters.... Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at
the Dollar Tree for almost nothing even the large ones.
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
Sure saves washing
dishes too.
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