On 3/8/2011 11:21 PM, Sky wrote:
> On 3/8/2011 10:10 PM, Polly Esther wrote:
>> Teach me how to separate coffee filters. DH makes the morning coffee but
>> I try to get everything ready to go for him. Just now I had quite a
>> battle with getting a 'single' filter apart. I could feel that there
>> were two stuck together but it took quite a bit of ruffling, slipping,
>> sliding and growling to get just one loose from its tenacious partner.
>> Is there a neat trick that Moma didn't tell me? Polly
>
> Try 'inverting' a small stack of the filters a few times in a row, as if
> turning a sweater or T-shirt inside-out then back right-side again. That
> might work, but I think it may depend on the the type of filter.
>
> Sky
>
I don't usually find it difficult to separate out one filter with my
fingers but, what is the problem if you pull out two? Apart from
wastefulness, of course, two seem to work as well as one.

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