14 New Uses For Coffee Filters

[Toni-Lynn]

I received this in an email this morning and thought I would share! Coffee filters… who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the dollar store!

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

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

• Protect China . Separate your good dishes by putting 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 one or two 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. Soaks out all the grease.

• Keep in the bathroom. They make great “razor nick fixers.”