Did You Know – Coffee Filters
You probably thought the only thing a coffee filter was good for was your morning coffee right? Well check out some of these other ways to use a clean coffee filter in the kitchen. There are many other uses for coffee filters but these are my favorite kitchen or food related uses.
- After you cook your bacon, strain the grease through a coffee filter and use the filtered grease for frying or sautéing your food instead of oil, butter etc.
- Use a filter to make your drinking glasses or stemware spotless right after washing and rinsing.
- Cover your food in the microwave with a filter to stop the splatter.
- If you hate doing dishes, like me, put your snacks like chips, pretzels or crackers in a filter since they are like a little bowl, then throw away the filter when you’re done. Plus they make for good portion control.
- When you drain your food into a colander that has larger drain slits than your food, spread a clean filter into the colander so the food doesn’t slip through the slits and into the sink.
- When you or your kids eat a frozen treat that drips on a hot day, cut a small slit in the middle of a filter and slip the stick through the hole so the drips land on the filter instead of your clothes.
- When making soup and a recipe calls for herbs that need to be removed after the cooking process is done, tie the herbs in a filter with a string and drop it into the soup or stew. Simply remove it and discard when the cooking process is done.
- Place a filter between your plates or bowls to stop them from scratching.
- Place a filter on top of a plate to let the excess grease soak in and off your fried food when you remove it from the pan.
- Clean and polish any of your stainless steel silverware, appliances, sink and faucet with a clean dry filter.
These are all tips for the kitchen I have picked up over the years. Do you have any other kitchen tips using a coffee filter?
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Thanks for sharing. I have used coffee filters for some of the uses you mentioned. Though we use natural colored filters, brown filters – as white coffee filters get their appearance by bleaching them with chlorine.
I never gave that a thought Randy! Looks like I will be switching to brown. Thank you my friend!
Your welcome.
I place four shovels of coffee from crusher into one cup .Pour water over and allow to settle . Now that is strong coffee for wake up each morning.When done just throw grains into tray ready to dry out and used in plant department . But best beans is the secret of good Blue Mountain coffee.Buy on line each month for freshest beens yet tasted
Whew now that is strong coffee!!!!! 🤣
excellent tips, all. and while these are not kitchen tips, I use coffee filters in my classroom for many, many kinds of art projects. they really lend themselves to using watercolors and watching the paint mix and spread
I did too when I was working with my developmentally challenged adults. My favorite was a large flower that they colored with marker and I think they sprayed with water. It’s been quite a few years now but they turned out beautiful. They make for cheap but fun art projects for your kids I’m sure!
sounds fun!
As I’m sure all of your crafts are too!!! You must be such a fun teacher. 🥰
love what I do
Great uses Diane
Thank you Sheree
Great ideas! Thank you!
You’re welcome Lisa!
All really good uses, especially the bacon fat draining tip!
Thank you! The bacon grease is the one I use the most. The filter doesn’t allow any bacon bits to go through and then cause the grease to go rancid. My refrigerated filtered bacon grease keeps for a long time.
All good to know!
Thank you GP!
Terrific ideas. Thanks Diane.
Thank you Bernadette!
Tops for using a coffee filter…
I loved the ones about using it in the microwave and as a strainer. But some sundry uses…
As a child’s helmet when he has to go after bad guys.
As a target.
Teach a child how to read a clock.
And finally…
Make coffee.
(Hope you got a laugh out of this.)
Oops! Needed to be for the kitchen or food, coffee counts. 🤣
Great ideas! Thanks Diane
You’re welcome and thank you for your comment.
These are great ideas. I will be trying them.😊
Thank you!
Lots of great suggestions here, Diane. Thanks so much.
You’re welcome Carla!
So many great ideas! The first one I try will be the bacon grease. I save mine, but it has always concerned me that bits and pieces were going into the jar too.
My grease has never gone rancid using a coffee filter.
You summed it up!
Thank you Alessandra!
You have the best tips and ideas!
You are so kind Mary, thank you my friend!
Good ideas all of them. I especially liked the idea of using one as a cover in the microwave. When I still had the microwave, I had a cover with a lid, but it would get splattered and have to be washed. Yes, better than having to clean the microwave, but still, the filters would be easier. When the pandemic first occurred and any masks being manufactured were going to medical personnel, experts suggested using a cone-shaped filter, cutting off the point and slipping it in between the bandana that people (including me) wore when going out of the house as an extra layer of protection.
I didn’t here about that one but it definitely didn’t hurt!
Later they had you use charcoal inserts instead, but that was in the beginning when masks could not be found, just to tuck into the bandana you put over your mouth.
Wow, who thought a coffee filter could be so versatile! I’m going to have to go buy an extra pack of coffee filters (and mark it with “not for use in coffee machine”) …
I like that idea!
So much can affect the flavor profile of coffee! Thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome!