I just made coffee using a metal tea strainer. Kinda worked. What off label use do you make of

[applegrove]

gadgets?

(later) Okay...if you want to get really 'jumpy' use the metal tea strainer for finely ground coffee.

(later still) flat on my back because of a caffeine trip. Only try this at home where you are near a couch or other comfortable place to crash.

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. if you take a rubber-tipped (almost anything) and place it lightly on top of a stack...

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... of coffee filters and draw it towards you, it will dislodge one and only one filter.
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An invaluable gadget for early morning pre-caffeinated uber-fumblers like me.
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[cyberswede]

2. I use coffee filters to wash windows & mirrors

Lint- and streak-free - and they're cheap!

[RebelOne]

3. When I run out of coffee filters, I use paper towels. n/t

[one_voice]

5. paper towels is all my father in law ever used...

he would never buy coffee filters.

[GentryDixon]

4. Back when I was making biscuits

from scratch, I used an evaporated milk can for my biscuit cutter. Pop the bottom off, and it is the perfect size for biscuits. I still have it if I ever decide to get back into Betty Crocker mode.

[Chan790]

6. my mother uses a can of peas as a rolling pin. n/t

[Chan790]

7. The pizza restaurant I used to work in...

used power drills for many many things that I'm not sure are HC appropriate.

We used to make pizza sauce by the 5gal bucket with a paint-stirrer attachment. We also rigged some sort of dough-hook attachment but abandoned it fairly-quickly. I used to wonder what the health inspector would have said if he'd come in and seen me mixing pizza and pasta sauce with a 6HP Makita drill in a plastic bucket.

[applegrove]

8. Wrap an elastic band around the lid of a jar that is tight and you will have a super grip to open

it.

[applegrove]

9. Use used newspaper and windex to clean windows. Doesn't streak.

[NV Whino]

10. I used my drip coffee maker to make tea

Worked great.