Thread: Just slightly OT: Coffee filters

On Sat 10 Jan 2009 06:39:57p, Gloria P told us...

>
> COFFEE FILTERS: Not just for making coffee....
>
> 1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters
> make excellent covers.
>
> 2. Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll
> leave windows sparkling.
>
> 3. Protect China . Separate your good dishes by putting a coffee filter
> between each dish.
>
> 4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a
> wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
>
> 5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to
> absorb moisture and prevent rust.
>
> 6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
>
> 7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined
> with a coffee filter.
>
> 8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on
> a kitchen scale.
>
> 9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
>
> 10. 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.
>
> 11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in
> a coffee filter.
>
> 12. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken
> fingers, etc on them. Soaks out all the grease.


Good tips, Gloria. Saved and filed.

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On Jan 10, 8:39�pm, Gloria P <gpues...@comcast.net> wrote:
> COFFEE FILTERS: Not just for making coffee....
>
> 1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters
> make excellent covers.
>
> 2. Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll
> leave windows sparkling.
>
> 3. Protect China . Separate your good dishes by putting a coffee filter
> between each dish.
>
> 4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a
> wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
>
> 5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to
> absorb moisture and prevent rust.
>
> 6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
>
> 7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined
> with a coffee filter.
>
> 8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on
> a kitchen scale.
>
> 9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
>
> 10. 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..
>
> 11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in
> a coffee filter.
>
> 12. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken
> fingers, etc on them. Soaks out all the grease.

13. a coffee filter in your bra will increase your bust one full cup
size.

"Sheldon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On Jan 10, 8:39�pm, Gloria P <gpues...@comcast.net> wrote:
> COFFEE FILTERS: Not just for making coffee....

<SNIp>

13. a coffee filter in your bra will increase your bust one full cup
size.


LOL

Dimitri

On Sat 10 Jan 2009 07:25:36p, Dimitri told us...

>
> "Sheldon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
> On Jan 10, 8:39�pm, Gloria P <gpues...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> COFFEE FILTERS: Not just for making coffee....
>
> <SNIp>
>
> 13. a coffee filter in your bra will increase your bust one full cup
> size.
>
>
> LOL
>
> Dimitri
>
>

Would that be the cone shaped one or the basket shaped one? I guess that
depends on one's goal. :-)


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On Jan 10, 8:39*pm, Gloria P <gpues...@comcast.net> wrote:

14. Line your sieve with a coffee filter when rinsing quinoa.

maxine in ri

Gloria P <[email protected]> wrote:

> 4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a
> wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.

Wine opener? Heck, I just smash the neck of the bottle against a
low brick wall and proceed with the coffee filter. Why risk busting
up the cork?

-sw

I was a bit puzzled with some of the items on this list at first. Then
I realized. "Oh, she's talking about the BASKET kind of filter!"

:-)

Best -- Terry
....been using a Braun cone-filter coffeemaker for at least 25 years...
forgot that there was another kind of filter...

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:39:57 -0700, Gloria P <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>COFFEE FILTERS: Not just for making coffee....
[good tips snipped]

On Jan 10, 8:39*pm, Gloria P <gpues...@comcast.net> wrote:
> COFFEE FILTERS: Not just for making coffee....
>
> 1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters
> make excellent covers.
>
> 2. Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll
> leave windows sparkling.
>
> 3. Protect China . Separate your good dishes by putting a coffee filter
> between each dish.
>
> 4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a
> wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
>
> 5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to
> absorb moisture and prevent rust.
>
> 6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
>
> 7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined
> with a coffee filter.
>
> 8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on
> a kitchen scale.
>
> 9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
>
> 10. 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..
>
> 11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in
> a coffee filter.
>
> 12. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken
> fingers, etc on them. Soaks out all the grease.

(WOw - great tips. Now I can use those old Melittas I can't bear to
throw out.)

Make yogurt cheese.

maxine in ri wrote:
> On Jan 10, 8:39 pm, Gloria P <gpues...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 14. Line your sieve with a coffee filter when rinsing quinoa.
>
> maxine in ri

You can line your colander with coffee filters when you drain the liquid
from ricotta or cottage cheese.

Becca

On 10-Jan-2009, Sqwertz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Gloria P <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a
> > wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
>
> Wine opener? Heck, I just smash the neck of the bottle against a
> low brick wall and proceed with the coffee filter. Why risk busting
> up the cork?
>
> -sw

You're just foolin' with us, right? You do know those MD 20/20 bottles have
a screw-cap, not a cork, don't you?
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"l, not -l" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10-Jan-2009, Sqwertz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Wine opener? Heck, I just smash the neck of the bottle against a
>> low brick wall and proceed with the coffee filter. Why risk busting
>> up the cork?
>
> You're just foolin' with us, right? You do know those MD 20/20 bottles have
> a screw-cap, not a cork, don't you?

You just can't resist reading my posts can you?

-sw

On Jan 10, 7:39�pm, Gloria P <gpues...@comcast.net> wrote:
> COFFEE FILTERS: Not just for making coffee....
>
> 1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters
> make excellent covers.
>
> 2. Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll
> leave windows sparkling.
>
> 3. Protect China . Separate your good dishes by putting a coffee filter
> between each dish.
>
> 4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a
> wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
>
> 5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to
> absorb moisture and prevent rust.
>
> 6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
>
> 7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined
> with a coffee filter.
>
> 8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on
> a kitchen scale.
>
> 9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
>
> 10. 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..
>
> 11. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in
> a coffee filter.
>
> 12. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken
> fingers, etc on them. Soaks out all the grease.

I can add a good onoe !

Use the coffee filter to drain yogurt to make yogurt cheese.

Rosie

On 11-Jan-2009, Sqwertz <[email protected]> wrote:

> "l, not -l" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 10-Jan-2009, Sqwertz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Wine opener? Heck, I just smash the neck of the bottle against a
> >> low brick wall and proceed with the coffee filter. Why risk busting
> >> up the cork?
> >
> > You're just foolin' with us, right? You do know those MD 20/20 bottles
> > have
> > a screw-cap, not a cork, don't you?
>
> You just can't resist reading my posts can you?
>
> -sw

Of course I read your posts; you're not always a putz, sometimes they are
informative, sometimes they are jocular as was the one and I responded in
kind.

Peter Lucas is the only regular poster whose messages I try to completely
avoid.
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"l, not -l" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Of course I read your posts; you're not always a putz, sometimes they are
> informative, sometimes they are jocular as was the one and I responded in
> kind.

Thank you.

[Beating chest and making Tarzan noises]

-sw