The Many Uses for Coffee Filters
Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a Coffee Filter.
Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee Filters are lint-free so they'll leave your windows sparkling.
Protect china. Separate your good dishes by putting a Coffee Filter between each dish.
Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee Filters make excellent covers.
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 leaking through the drainage holes.
Another “green” suggestion is to buy a re-useable (washable) coffee filter (we have one!), so you don’t even have to buy the paper kind at all.
I recently bought a smaller coffee pot, so I have a package of larger filters that I'm not using. I found these great ideas for coffee filters--may-be one or two will work for you:
And what do you do with your left-over coffee grounds? Check here for my suggestions!
