The wonders of coffee filters
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Linda
The wonders of coffee filters
Better than paper towels and a lot less expensive...
Coffee filters .... Who knew!
And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Stores 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 acoffee filterbetween 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 appliqueing soft fabrics.
16. Putbaking 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 aspoon 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 aplastic baggieuntil they sprout.
24. Use coffee filters asblotting paper for pressed flowers.
Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phone book..
25. Use as a kiddie's disposable "snack bowl" for popcorn, chips, etc.
OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOURCOFFEE MAKERSTOO.
Have a nice day !!
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