25 Uses for Coffee Filters...Who would have thought! Home Stagers, forget the paper towels, grab the coffee filters instead. Something else to add to our toolboxes!! Great for putting in between dishes when being stored. Last minute touch-ups, I can think of several ways we could use these.
Thanks, Dorie Dillard with Coldwell Banker United, from Austin, TX.
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Coffee filters....who knew the wonderful uses! You can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing even the large ones and look at what you can do with them:
1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent filters.
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. Use as a disposable "snack bowl" for popcorn, chips, etc.
13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, french fries, chicken fingers, etc. n 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. 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 in 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. Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrow? Use strips of coffee filters.
OH YEAH....THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS, TOO!
Dorie in
Austin
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Great post...Maxwell House woulda never thunk it!!!! SANKA anyone lol... Don't let Starbucks read this... You might wind up paying alot more for designer filters!!!
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Cindy,
I've been known to use coffee filters for a few of these uses but no where near all of this!
I love it! I have a ton of them from Costco and every morning think how many years it will take to use them all. Not any more...the years just got cut in half! Thanks!
Cindy, What about itty-bitty lampshade?
John-Run to your nearest Sam's and buy now before prices go up! HA!
Judi-There are really some great ideas here, it's always the obvious we overlook.
Aja-I know, I almost threw mine out, I thought it's going to take years to use all of these, I even gave them to my parents to get rid of them. Now I'll be keeping!
John-I see your creative side working here, only if we didn't turn the light on! ha
WOW.....who would have guessed. I just use mine for coffee....now I'll look at them completely differently!! THANKS!
Cindy ~ My best friend (who knows I am a coffee lover) sent me this list. I have to say, I have used almost everyone of these suggestions!
Kathy-I know, me too, who comes up with this stuff?
Melinda-I can see using these tips except for #25 ouch!
Cindy -- thanks for passing this on. I don't drink "regular" coffee and have a box of filters -- now I know what to do with them!!
Maureen-I like a coffee press myself, no filters needed, but I keep some for guests.
I wasn't aware of most of these ideas for coffee filters. Great post to reblog...thanks for passing it on! I've been using paper plates to cover dishes in the microwave...this will save me money!
And just as I was wondering how I was going to sprout the Four-O'Clock seeds I brought home from Greece!! (yes, I know you can get them here but....)
A great share Cindy, thanks. Since you have to buy them in large quantities they should last awhile and certainly are less bulky than paper towels.
Great list, Ginger! I, too, have been using coffee filters for several of those purposes for some time now. Here are another couple of uses:
~ Lin