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Default Separating coffee filters

On Sunday, August 9, 2020 at 7:45:07 PM UTC-5, Bryan Simmons wrote:
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> On Sunday, August 9, 2020 at 5:11:51 PM UTC-5, wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 10:10:15 PM UTC-6, Polly Esther wrote:

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> > > 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 use a sewing needle or straight pin and it' easy to pick off one at a time from the inside.

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> Or just pinch your tongue between your index finger and thumb. I understand folks being hesitant to do that in the time of Covid-19, but the heat of coffee brewing will destroy the virus.
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> --Bryan
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Nine-year-old thread.