They’re inexpensive and quite useful around the house. Some of the following suggestions are new and some have been used for years. We’ve even included one just for Valentine’s Day. Enjoy!
- Coffee filters make excellent covers for bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Use three together as an emergency spoon rest while cooking. (Keep a good distance from hot burners.)
- They make great disposable bowls for snacks like crackers, popcorn, chips, and pretzels.
- Filters are lint-free so they clean windows, TV and computer screens, and mirrors to a sparkling shine.
- Keep a few filters in your trunk to use when you are checking the fluids.
- Moving and want to protect your fine china? Or, storing your china in a cabinet for occasional use? Separate your dishes by putting a filter between each dish.
- Use them to clean your glasses. They won’t leave any lint.
- If you break the cork when opening a bottle of wine, filter the wine through a coffee filter to catch any small pieces of cork.
- Diffuse the brightness of your camera flash with a coffee filter.
- Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.
- Putting together a child’s toy? Separate the screws from other pieces by placing each in coffee filters – to avoid lost parts.
- Ball up a lint-free coffee filter to apply shoe polish.
- Filters are great for holding 1-2 tablespoons of baking soda (tied with twine or a twist-tie) to place in shoes, the refrigerator, garbage can, closets, etc., to prevent odors.
- On a diet and you weigh your foods? Place chopped or dry ingredients in a coffee filter to keep your kitchen scale clean.
- Use filters for home repair. Fold a filter to size (cut if necessary) and tuck it into the space between a loose table leg and the tabletop.
- Filters are convenient wrappers for holding messy foods, including tacos, hot dogs, or over-filled sandwiches.
- Use coffee filters to blot liquids off unholstered furniture or fabric car seats. They won’t leave lint behind like paper towels do.
- 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.
- Hold a filter up to your hairline to prevent hairspray getting in your eyes.
- Fresh herbs and spices are great in soups or stews, but many are removed after the flavor has been released through cooking. Wrap the herbs in the center of a coffee filter, and cut away the excess paper around the top. Tie it together with a piece of clean cotton twine, and toss it into the food you’re preparing. This is an ideal way to cook the flavor out of bay leaves, cloves, peppercorn, and many more herbs and spices that aren’t meant to be consumed.
- Bake a giant cupcake instead of the usual birthday cake. Everyone will be surprised and impressed by the size of the cupcake made to serve more than just a single person. Set into an oven-proof custard dish to maintain its shape.
- Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.
- Dip filters in tea and lay over sunburned skin.
- Use strips of coffee filters to wax eyebrows.
- Entertaining buffet style? Put each slice of dessert (cake, pie, muffin, brownie, etc.) on a coffee filter and arrange on trays. The dessert is easier to pick up and put on a plate or just eat as is without any mess. (If you have decorative-edge scissors, cut the tops down to create a pretty border.)
- Keep in the bathroom and tear off a little piece of the filter to cover a razor nick.
- Tear a filter in half and fold up (not roll). Place firmly between upper lip and upper teeth, firmly but comfortably pushed up against the soft gum tissue towards the nose, to slow down a nose bleed.
- Use for backing for embroidering soft fabrics; easy to tear away afterwards. Use for machine embroidering, also.
- Use coffee filters to hold dry ingredients when you are baking. You can get everything ready and it doesn’t take your entire countertop. There aren’t extra bowls to wash! (Then, just throw away the filters.)
- Experiment with flavored teas. Using your coffee maker and a coffee filter, set some tea bags (depending on amount of cups you’re making) into the caraffe with strings hanging outside, under the lid. Place a little cinnamon or other spices into filter and run water through. Drink hot or refrigerate for iced tea.
- Filters are great for all kinds of craft and science projects.
- Rubber stamp little hearts all over the “outside” of a white filter. Fill with Valentine candies. Gently gather at the top and add a pink or red ribbon. This idea can be used for other holidays or special occasions, too. Just use different stamps and different colors of ribbon. Tuck one into a child’s lunchbox, or into your hubby’s briefcase, or prepare one as a pillow treat for houseguests. Put one next to each place setting at the dinner table to help celebrate birthdays, graduation, good news, a good report card, or “just because”. Make some as a parting gift for wedding or baby showers. The list is endless. Have fun!
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