[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Holiday Treats and something extra

[Valerie Alcaraz]

As promised, here is the text of the second attachment.
Things You Can Do With Coffee filters
Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing even the large ones.
1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.
2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome... Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll leave windows sparkling.
3. Protect China by separating your good dishes with 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. Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters..
13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them. It soaks out all the grease.
14. Keep in the bathroom. They make great "razor nick fixers."
15. As a sewing backing. Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliqueing soft fabrics.
16. Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors.
17. Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews.
18. Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car.
19. Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills.
20. Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies.. Saves on having extra bowls to wash.
21. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.
22. Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.
23. 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.
24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phone book..
25. Use as a disposable "snack bowl" for popcorn, chips, etc.
Not just for coffee
Best,
Valerie


> On Dec 16, 2020, at 10:46 PM, Linda via NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Valorie, I do not see an attachment.
> 
> Linda
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Valerie Alcaraz via NFB-Krafters-Korner
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 10:41 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Valerie Alcaraz <snowflake9587 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] Holiday Treats and something extra
> 
> I’m sorry I missed the chat today. I have a recipe you all might like, but it isn’t my own. An instructor from Braille Institute made it public on their official page, and I forgot about it until now. I have now put it into a text file, and hopefully can share it with you all.
> As an added interesting thing, I saw another post on the many things you can do with coffee filters. Maybe you all have many ideas about that, but I learned a few new tricks from this post too, and some of them are either crafting or food related. So, here you go.
> Best,
> Valerie
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