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| marjean |
Posted - Dec 01 2011 : 2:57:35 PM
I posted under Keeping in touch and then saw this thread. But, these are such good tips I just had to share them twice! Enjoy!
What is your favoirte? Mine are #15 and #23!
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 appliquéing 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 TOO
I didn't know most of this stuff!
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| prayin granny |
Posted - Sep 02 2012 : 06:02:43 AM
Thanks Marsha! Awesome tips to use!
Hugs,
Linda
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| summer girl |
Posted - Sep 01 2012 : 12:18:09 PM
Wow! Now I have a list of uses for that stack of coffe fillters we don't use any more.
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| Sugar Girl |
Posted - Jun 13 2012 : 9:34:40 PM
Also use for filtering your fresh goat and cow milk.
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| Dumplin |
Posted - May 28 2012 : 09:21:43 AM
We like using them to wipe out greasy pots.
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| batznthebelfry |
Posted - May 04 2012 : 06:06:50 AM
I render my own fats for lye soaps & have been using these for years to filter the fats ...love how they work...also use them in my juice strainer for when I do grape juice instead of using cheese cloth.....:)...Michele'
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| Jeanna |
Posted - Mar 22 2012 : 11:12:56 AM
Opps! I meant out of the hole in the bottom. Keep it in the pot.
Jeanna
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| marjean |
Posted - Mar 22 2012 : 09:54:53 AM
Good tip Jeanna!
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| Jeanna |
Posted - Mar 22 2012 : 08:10:06 AM
Another use is put in the bottom of your planting pots to keep the soil in the hole in the bottom. If you are using smaller pots you can cut them into and only use 1/2.
Jeanna
Farmgirl Sister #41
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| dena beans |
Posted - Mar 17 2012 : 12:55:51 PM
This is great! There are uses here I have never even thought of! Thank you for sharing!
Dena |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Feb 01 2012 : 7:53:21 PM
Marsha: What great tips you have for those brown coffee filters. I can't wait to share with my friends. They'll love these ideas. Thanks.
Marly
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| blessedhomemaker |
Posted - Dec 15 2011 : 1:08:34 PM
Thanks for these tips! Neat!
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| acairnsmom |
Posted - Dec 11 2011 : 11:19:34 AM
I have used tips 10 & 25. I've also used them to strain things like loose tea or coffee grounds that escape the brew cycle or in my french press coffee maker (leaves too much grounds floating). Thanks for sharing the others.
Audrey
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| Penny Wise |
Posted - Dec 02 2011 : 07:57:01 AM
i havent bought filters for a very long time- use the permanent reusable kind--but these are great tips-not sure that i would have a fave!!! too many good ones to choose from!thanks for posting!
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| marjean |
Posted - Dec 02 2011 : 07:52:53 AM
When I find something that is really useful I just have to pass it on to my farm girl friends!
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| Wildcrafter |
Posted - Dec 02 2011 : 07:25:02 AM
Thanks for posting! Good tips!
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| ClaireSky |
Posted - Dec 02 2011 : 05:01:10 AM
Marsha, These are wonderful tips! I will definitely be using quite a few of these tips. Thanks for sharing.
Julie
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| jessabelluh |
Posted - Dec 01 2011 : 3:17:41 PM
Great tips! Thanks for posting this.
~jess |
