I am interested in buying this tea maker to steap and make ice tea. do you think it would work well for this?
247774
Yes, what I use it for. I have a pitcher that I can pour the hot tea into & add ice or just refrigerate.
247775
personally i dont like it .. it leave the satin and the quality of brewing is not what i was expecting
247776
Does a great job with making hot tea. I guess you could pout it over ice but it may dilute it some. I think it was designed for hot tea
176608
Yes although when I bought mine I was encouraged to use it for cold brew. I told the vendor I didn't have a lot of time to brew water & make tea so the solution was to fill pitcher with cool or room temp water, fill tea basket and let sit overnight in fridge. I LOVE THIS PRODUCT. The handle also allows you to hang horizontal on a shelf and it is leakproof. I'm not sure if the other reviewers have a defective product or are not using product correctly. It's great.
1567418
If you double-brew it (with twice the amount of tea), then you can just put ice in it when it's done steeping to make iced tea.
535885
Never had a problem with making good iced tea at high altitude, since I live in Colorado. This tea maker is great.
2141760
I don't know, but it's worth a try. My parents use one just like this to make apple cider. They put the mulling spices at the top and put apple cider in it instead of water, and it works well. I would guess it would work with tea.
326883
Yes, you may use this machine to make tea, however, without the coffee masking the taste of the water, the hot water that comes out always tasted like plastic to me, even after repeated cleaning and flushing of the machine. There are just too many platic parts that end up giving a plastic "flavor" the extremely hot water as it passes through. I returned the machine for that reason.
260823
Well, not really. The tea brews down hot over the ice which dilutes and cools to make the perfect strength iced tea. I use a whole tray of cubes plus a couple more, 10 tea bags, and water to the line they put on the inside of the brewer. Results are great, cooled tea. Doesn't come out icy cold - but then you can pour it over ice, or refrigerate until cold. Without ice in the pitcher - you may as well just use a tea kettle and tea pot method.
755615
Google, "instructions for take a ice tea maker". I am sure you will find the instructions there :D
539790
YES! I've had 2 now & they've both leaked after 6 months & rusted on the bottom. And my last one finally just shorted out...the button light will come on, but it won't make tea. Mine have only lasted about a year with heavy daily use, but i'm still ordering another one. This tea maker is my most used appliance. If they could fix the leaking & rusting issues, this tea maker would be perfect.
1711005
Absolutely. I have used both sizes of this pot for brewing hot tea. It has come in and out of the dishwasher countless times, looking like new. As with any glass tea pot you have to make sure you do not subject it to abrupt changes in temperature. Give it a swirl of hot tap water before putting tea in.
544418
That should work fine. However, the kettle is porcelain coated so be careful drilling/cutting it as it may emit high speed procelain chips as you cut/drill. Gloves and safety glasses are a must! Enjoy your temperature controller. Mine works great!
1328589
I'd strongly recommend you not put anything but clean, fresh, cold water into this appliance. It's a kettle, intended for heating or boiling water; not a tea pot, in which you brew tea.
778040
This works equally well as a tea pot, you just measure your fresh loose leaf tea and place it in the container, pour in the hot, not quite boiling water wait a minute or so and apply the press. Makes wonderful tea. Haven't used tea bags at this time but it would probably work well also.
512529
I'm not sure I normally put ice cubes in it before its done maybe sorry I'm not helpful I love the tea maker. the tea maker is great for loose leaf tea and bags too.
2219942
If you wanted to I guess you can, but I use it for making tea and it works perfectly for that!
260821
yes-we never use ice. we run the machine twice with extra loose tea which makes 1/2 gallon of strong tea. we add that to a 1 gallon pitcher and fill it with cold water to the top(after dissolving the sugar or sucralose in the hot just-made tea portion). then the gallon pitcher goes into the fridge. lasts about 2-3 days in our house. this has been the best way to make tea. only it cost about $35 NOT THE RIDICULOUS $119.99 they are asking here.must be a cheaper somewhere else or i would not get it again.....
1796940
I generally just run hot water through my Keurig and then use a traditional tea strainer. I haven't really tried it for tea. Don't think it would steep long enough.