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Iced Tea
| Thu, 05-03-2007 - 4:10am |
Iced tea is my new favorite thing, but so far have only bought the bottled kind and want to make it at home. I'm completely clueless as to how to make it or what is the best kind of tea to make it with. Help! My kitchen and I are just starting to get to know each other.

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My personal recommendation is to start with tea that you would be willing to drink hot. For example, you wouldn't cook with wine you wouldn't drink, so why make iced tea with tea you wouldn't drink hot?
I'm partial to Tazo teas, which are readily available in Whole Foods, or your local Starbucks. I know the stores stick with the Awake, Passion or Zen teas for brewing. It really shouldn't be too difficult to do. I recommend brewing 4 bags at a time in a small amount of boiling water...maybe 2 cups...for 5 minutes. Then fill the rest of your pitcher with cold water. Voila! Sweeten as desired.
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You came to the right spot...I am a Southern gal and I drink about a gallon and half of iced tea a day.
You can also make sun tea, now that the weather is improving (hopefully). Get a one gallon glass jar, fill it with cold water, add 4-5 tea bags, put on the lid and set it on the front porch in the sunshine for several hours. No boiling water, no stove, no heat in the kitchen - which is a bonus in the summer. Sun tea always comes out nice and clear. I agree, the no name tea bags work fine in iced tea. I have also found some nice teas at the discount, closeout type stores - sometimes name brands, sometimes brands I haven't heard of. Anways start with cold water to brew tea, hot tap water tends to make it cloudy. I'm not sure why, maybe because it has been sitting in the tank. Anyways, enjoy your tea. It is much cheaper to brew it yourself than to buy the bottles.
Deanna - another iced tea guzzler
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I'm a tea lover too!! Hot, cold, luke warm, just give me the tea! No sugar or cream please.
My favorite way to brew tea is to take 2 tea bags (I don't like it too strong *blush*), boil water in my water boiler, (they are very very common here in Finland) about 1 liter and then pour the entire pot of water onto my tea bags, let cool and poor into fridge container.
Experiment with different "flavors" of tea to find the one(s) you like best.
Curious Chef
That is the only kind of tea I use.
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Hey, K-roni & Everyone,
Iced tea is our drink-of-choice at home -- all year round! When dh stopped working and went on disability, we decided that the Crystal Light & Lipton mixes had to stop. We both grew up drinking home-brewed, so we went back to that. We must go through almost 500 teabags a week!
K, I like the method of 8 bags to a qt. of water in the m/w, but since dh is home all day, he's the one making it, & it might be hard to convince him to give up his little pot. Plus, we must like strong tea, or something, because when it's not right, it's usually because he miscounted the tea bags lol.
We use artificial sweetener, tho, to cut back on calories. And unless we have the one in the yellow pack, it doesn't always dissolve well. So I bring about a 1/4 cup of water to boil, add the pink stuff to the hot water, ice that down, then add it to the concentrated brewed tea already in the fridge. A shot of lemon or orange juice, or True Lemon or True Lime is nice, and we're ready to go.
Along with dessert last month on Passover, I set up a tea bar. I made an urn of boiling water and put out the tea chest with assorted flavors of tea, some regular, some decaf. Next to that I had sugar, sweet & low, honey and rock-candy sticks, and dishes of orange, lemon and lime slices. I had two filled ice buckets, mugs & teaspoons, and glasses & iced-tea spoons.
In peace,
Max
In peace,
Max
Iced tea is easy and fun to make in lots of different ways. I personally love Sun Tea. The basic recipe would be to take a tea jar of some type and put in 3 tea bags, set out in the sun until it's the color you like your tea.
Personally for plain iced sun tea I like to use Luzianne tea bags, supposedly specially made for iced tea.
However you can use any type of tea bags for sun tea.
Recently I started making Ginger Peach iced tea using the Republic of Teas Ginger Peach bags. yum! Their Safari Sunset red tea is yummy iced as well.
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