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A round-up of our top uses for coffee filters that are worth sharing!
In This Post:
- Who Knew How Handy Coffee Filters Are?!
- Cooking & Eating with Coffee Filters
- 1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave.
- 2. Use as a disposable “snack bowl” for popcorn, chips, etc.
- 3. Weigh chopped foods.
- 4. Use to strain herbs and spices for soup stock.
- 5. Recycle frying oil.
- 6. Use to soak up oil on greasy foods.
- 7. Use as a holder for tacos.
- 8. Prevent a popsicle from dripping.
- 9. Spoon Rest for Cooking.
- 10. Hold dry ingredients.
- Cleaning with Coffee Filters
- General Household Uses for Coffee Filters
- 14. Protect your fine china.
- 15. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot.
- 16. Use them to sprout seeds.
- 17. As a sewing backing.
- 18. Use to soak up bad household odors.
- 19. Prevent oil spilling when filling car oil.
- 20. Wrap fragile glass and ball Christmas Ornaments
- 21. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers.
- Beauty Uses for Coffee Filters
Who Knew How Handy Coffee Filters Are?!
Better than paper towels and a lot less expensive… you can buy a big packages on Amazon for pennies per filter and use them for everything from cooking to crafts and home cleaning projects.
Cooking & Eating with Coffee Filters
1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave.
Coffee filters make excellent covers to prevent splashing and mess around the kitchen and on your stove and countertops.
2. Use as a disposable “snack bowl” for popcorn, chips, etc.
Great for movie nights and kids birthday parties. Coffee filters make a great lightweight bowl and take up less room in the trashcan than regular paper bowls. Also great for picnics and camping trips where you don't want to bring along heavy bowls.
3. Weigh chopped foods.
Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale and use while baking. Get the perfect weight for cakes, cookies and other detailed recipes.
4. Use to strain herbs and spices for soup stock.
Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews.
5. Recycle frying oil.
After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter. Store the oil in an air tight container and use again until it goes rancid.
6. Use to soak up oil on greasy foods.
Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, french fries, chicken fingers, etc. on them. It soaks out all the grease.
7. Use as a holder for tacos.
Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods like tacos!
8. Prevent a popsicle from dripping.
Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter and use as a drip catcher for messy popsicles!
9. Spoon Rest for Cooking.
Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills.
10. Hold dry ingredients.
When baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies. Saves on having extra bowls to wash.
Cleaning with Coffee Filters
11. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome.
Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll leave windows sparkling.
12. Protect a cast-iron skillet.
Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.
13. Polish your shoes
Ball up a lint-free coffee filter and use to polish your leather shoes. This is a great alternative to paper towels or rags.
General Household Uses for Coffee Filters
14. Protect your fine china.
Use a coffee filter as a separator between each of your fine china dishes and tea cups.
15. 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.
16. Use them to sprout seeds.
Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a plastic baggie until they sprout.
17. As a sewing backing.
Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliquéing soft fabrics.
18. Use to soak up bad household odors.
Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors.
19. Prevent oil spilling when filling car oil.
Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car.
20. Wrap fragile glass and ball Christmas Ornaments
Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.
21. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers.
Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters between phone book pages or other heavy weights.
Beauty Uses for Coffee Filters
22. Use as strips to wax your eyebrows
Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters.
23. Use instead of bandaids or tissue for razor nicks.
Keep in the bathroom. They make great “razor nick fixers.”
24. Use as a nail polish remover wipe
Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.
25. Oh yeah, coffee filters work great in coffee makers, too!
You can find Coffee Filters for the best price on Amazon.
