Great Idea about Coffee Filters

Better Than Paper Towels

COFFEE FILTERS Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree

for $1.00, 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

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 into a zip-lock plastic

bag 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