If you’ll excuse a somewhat random post, I was rather pleased with this little bit of creative recycling and thought I’d share it. Sooner or later, every coffee-drinking household ends up with one of these: a cafetiere with no glass.
Bizarrely, it’s cheaper to buy a whole new cafetiere than to buy a new glass part, so you end up with a metal frame either in the bin, or languishing in the shed or garage among all the bits and pieces you’ve kept ‘just in case’.
In all the unpacking of the new house, I came across the old broken cafetiere, and I stuck it on the mantel piece to remind me to do something with it. I was staring at it yesterday while I was on the phone, and a use for it occurred to me.
I took it apart, added a length of drainpipe scavenged from last week’s kitchen re-fit, and put it all back together with some rolls of tape. Just like that – a French press tape dispenser. The cafetiere is redeemed, and that old problem of finding the end of the sticky tape is solved.
The Earthbound Report 
After one son of mine nearly got seriously cut by a breaking glass cafetierre we switched to using one of all-metal construction (found cheap in a Charity Shop).
Now I only need to persuade my metal one to pour as well as the glass one used to…..
Yes, mine is all metal too – much more durable. Mine is of more dubious origins than the charity shop though. A friend’s mum decided to bring her back a present from her holiday in Spain, and stole it from the hotel. I think my friend felt somewhat slighted, having presents stolen for her rather than bought, and promptly gave it away herself…