On Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 11:10:15 PM UTC-5, 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

Just give a puff of air on the upper edge of the filters and they will usually come apart.