Coffee Filters

Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing - even the large ones.  Better than paper towels and a lot less expensive.

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• 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 1 or 2 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 appliquéing 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between 2 coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phone book.
• Use as a disposable snack bowl for popcorn, chips, etc.

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