42 Unbelievable Coffee Filter Hacks with Video

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Coffee filters are for more than just making wonderful coffee. Here are several coffee filter hacks and unexpected uses for them in your home.

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Coffee Filter Hacks for the Kitchen

Use coffee filters as dish protectors

Keep your dishes and fine china safe from scuff marks by placing a disposable paper filter between each dish. Consider even using cone coffee filters, by cutting them in half along their seams.

Protect pots and pans

Place coffee. filters between your pots and pans to protect them from being scratched and compromising the surfaces.

Stop rust on cast iron pans

Wipe excess moisture off of your cast iron pans to prevent rusting. You can even leave a coffee filter on top of the pan to soak up anything that might be sitting on or in the pan that you missed, and protect the surface when stacking.

Grease a pan with a coffee filter

Place some oil or butter in a pan and smear it around with a coffee filter.

Strain liquids with a coffee filter

Some liquids can go right through a strainer or sieve, you can add a coffee filter to make sure to stop those fine particles and pulp from coming through. Place the coffee filter into the strainer or sieve, and pour the liquid into the center of a coffee filter. When it comes out on the other side, it’ll be free of the fine particles and pulp.

Make a seasoning pouch

Sometimes you don’t want the seasonings all over your food but you want the flavor. Add your seasonings to a coffee filter and close it up. (I use a staple) Place it in your soups, roasts and more to infuse the flavor.

Use a coffee filter like a paper towel for quick spill clean up

Use a coffee filter to quickly soak up spills.

Use coffee filters to soak up grease

Place a coffee filter under items that are greasy to soak up that grease. They are a great absorbent paper for these grease clean ups!

Prevent splatters in your microwave

Cover with another coffee filter to protect your microwave from splatters. You can also use it as an oil blotter to dab up extra grease off things like bacon, and hashbrowns or french fries.

Use a filter for Eco Friendly Lunch Wrap

Pack your sandwich in a couple coffee filters and close with a rubber band. This will prevent your bread from getting soggy. You can also pack other items in coffee filters and close with a rubber band. This is eco friendly and if you’re like my son… you won’t have to worry about losing your storage containers.

Use filters for Quick Snack Bowl

Place a variety of snacks in coffee filters for serving. Add things like chips, cheese, nuts, popcorn, fruit, and more to the basket.

Create a tea bag with a filter or Use it as a strainer

You can use a coffee filter as a strainer. For this one I placed loose tea into a coffee filter, stapled it closed, and steeped it in my hot water.

Stop drippy messes with a coffee filter

Keep messy foods at bay. Wrap a filter around the base of ice cream treats and popsicles to stop the mess when things start to melt and drip. This will help prevent sticky fingers and make for easy clean up.

Dry your produce, and keep it hydrated

Once you rinse your lettuce you can dry it quickly with a coffee filter before eating. This prevents the drippy mess or watering down the dressing.

When storing your produce, place it between two damp coffee filters and place in an air tight container. This will keep your produce hydrated and keep it crisp instead of getting dehydrated and wilty.

Use it as a hot dog or taco holder

You can keep your hands clean and stop losing those toppings by placing your food into a filter. This will keep all of those tacos toppings together. When you’re done, simply toss and there’s no clean up.

Use a coffee filter as a spoonrest

When doing your cooking, keep a coffee filter near by. It will help clean up quick spills, and it can serve as a spoon rest. This will contain your drips to one space, and you can throw it away when you’re finished.

Dry glassware

If you don’t like streaks on your glassware, try drying it with a coffee filter. Coffee filters are lint-free, and they help keep all of that stemware streak free.

Dry Herbs

When gardening is close to an end but you want to save all you have grown, place your herbs on some coffee filters to air dry. Once they are dry, you can close the filter up with a rubber band and then pull out the herbs and seasonings as needed.

Cleaning Coffee Filter Hacks

Shine your shoes

You can clean your shoes when their dirty with a damp coffee filter, simply wipe and then throw away. You can also use a little coconut oil and a filter to shine the shoes up as well.

Make an Odor Eater

Place some baking soda in a coffee filter, close it up with a rubber band and place it where you want to get rid of odors.

Deodorize your bathroom

Use that same sachet and place it in your trashcans or bathrooms behind the toilet to help deodorize your space.

DIY Dryer Sheets

Skip the fabric softeners. Place a few drops of essential oil onto a coffee filter and place in your dryer with the laundry to use as a makeshift dryer sheet.

Use a coffee filter as a disposable cleaning rag

Use a coffee filter with your favorite household cleaner and wipe down all of your surfaces like tables and counters. Once your finished throw it away.

Use coffee filters to clean your sinks, faucets, toilets, and more. What’s great is they are lint free.

Clean your windows and mirrors

Since the coffee filter is lint free, it does a great job of cleaning not only your glassware like mentioned earlier but also your windows and mirrors for a streak-free finish.

Clean your electronics

Use a coffee filter to clean your electronics like your TV, computers, etc. These are soft on screens and lint free.

Clean your stainless appliances

I use a coffee filter with a little coconut oil or olive oil to clean my stainless steel appliances (dishwasher, oven, refrigerator, etc) It moisturizes them and leaves them streak free.

Clean your blinds

Get your coffee filter damp with water and wipe the blinds back and forth. The coffee filters grab that dirt and then you can throw them away when you’re finished.

More Coffee Filter Hacks

DIY Bath Tea using a filter

Place Epsom salt, essential oil, and some lavender flowers (or flowers of your choice) in a coffee filter. Close with a rubber band and toss into your bubble bath. It’ll release the salts but keep the flowers inside for a no mess clean up.

DIY Fragrant Sachet with a filter

Place baking soda, essential oils, and flowers of your choice in a coffee filter. Close with a rubber band and place in your drawers and closets.

Use coffee filters in flower pots

Place a coffee filter in the bottom of your flower pot. Fill with dirt and place a plant of your choice in the flower pot. The filter will let the moisture out but keep the dirt in.

Save seeds and make a seed starter

You can dry and save your vegetable and flower garden seeds for next year by placing them in a coffee filter and closing them with a rubber band.

You can make a seed starter by getting a filter damp, placing seeds in it, and folding it up. Let it dry, and next year you plant the entire thing into the ground. It’s a great gift idea too.

Press and preserve flowers

Cut your flowers and place them between 2 coffee filters. Lay a heavy book on top and let it sit for about a week or until the flowers are dry. Once they are dry you can make a fun craft with pressed flowers

Coffee Filter Hacks for Your Car

I like to keep coffee filters in my car because they can help with so many things!

Use in your car for quick clean up

Use them to wipe up a quick mess on your seats and floors.

Clean your car

Use coffee filters to clean your car. I like to wipe my dash with them. I have also placed them in my cup holders to keep them cleaner.

Check Car Fluids

Use a coffee filter to check the fluids in your car. I like to use it when checking my oil. I can wipe the dip stick off easily, then check the oil level.

Craft Coffee Filter Hacks

Coffee Filter Wreath

You can make a wreath out of coffee filters by twisting them and gluing them onto a wreath form.

Coffee Filter Sign

I used the wreath from above in the center for this, and the other 2 letters I cut out of cardboard and then glued the filters to them.

Coffee Filter Snowman

I stapled 2 paper plates together and then glued a bunch of coffee filters to them to make this snowman. I added the embellishments for the final touches.

Coffee Filter Christmas Tree

I use a wine bottle with lights in the center for the base. I cut different sized holes in the center of the filters and glued them onto the wine bottle to create this fun tree.

Coffee Filter Topiary

I glued a bunch of coffee filters to a styrofoam ball, and then attached it to this candle holder for the base.

You can find all of these tutorials at 5 Beautiful Dollar Tree Christmas Crafts For Under $1

Coffee Filter Snowflake

I made a ton of snowflakes out of a variety of things, and make them out of coffee filters has to be one of my favorites. You can find the full tutorial at Creative DIY Snowflakes: Step-by-Step Tutorials with Video

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