Uses for coffee filters - just got this from a friend

[eleny]

We usually use the unbleached ones in the coffee maker. But the bleached ones are inexpensive at the dollar stores.

COFFEE FILTERS: Not just for making coffee....

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

2. Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll leave windows sparkling.

3. Protect China. Separate your good dishes by putting 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. Soaks out all the grease.

14. Keep in the bathroom. They make great "razor nick fixers."

[NMDemDist2]

1. great list!!

thanks! :hi:

[RebelOne]

2. Great tips. I don't drink coffee, but I just may buy some filters. n/t

[Grey]

3. All good ideas, thanks nt

[catgirl]

4. Use coffee filters instead of cheese cloth

I made yogurt cheese this way. Put the filters in a strainer, place over a bowl,
fill the filters with yogurt, place in fridge and let it drip away for a couple of
hours.

[eleny]

5. Thanks, I like farmer cheese made from cottage cheese

The yogurt cheese sounds like it would be spreadable.

[NMDemDist2]

6. I was packing up the 'good' china today

and remembered these tips

used em between the salad plates

:hi: