FUN FILTER FACTS

Coffee filters

1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.
2. Clean windows, mirror, 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. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.
5. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
6. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.
7. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.
8. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make a convenient wrapper for messy foods.
9. 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.
10. Prevent a popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.
11. Pu a few in a plate and put your fried chicken, bacon, french fries etc on them. It soaks out all of the grease.
12. Keep in the bathroom. They make great "razor nick fixers".
13. As a sewing backing. Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or applying applique on soft fabrics.
14. Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors.
15. Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs to put in soups and stews.
16. Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car.
17. Use them as spoon rests while cooking and to clean up small counter spills.
18. Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies.
19. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storing.
20. Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.
21. Use them to sprout seeds. Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it in a plastic bag until they sprout
22. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in a phone book.
23. Use as a disposable "snack bowl" for popcorn, chips, etc.
24. Emergency Toilet paper usage......