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Get one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Coffee-2-Quart-Iced-Maker/dp/B00005OTXI/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ice+tea+maker&qid=1644299615&sr=8-1
Add 1/2 cup (100 grams) of sugar to the steeping basket as it's brewing to better dissolve the sugar. Can be adjusted for taste of course. Cheers.
There's a version for tea!! I don't drink coffee because it makes me ricochet off the walls but now I was totally getting FOBO. Now I can "quench" it!
I visited a friend's house in the states, who had a ice tea maker, where you would load up tea leaves, water and ice into three seperate containers, plug it in, and have iced tea.
Looks kinda like this I think.
I bought this one from Amazon. Makes the cold brew, remove the grounds, store it in the same pitcher. The pitcher is airtight and easy to clean.
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0095ZBJVA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_c_nI1RFb6KGYBEE
>It would be nice if the North American tea culture, assuming there is a North American Tea culture, could come up with it's own unique vessel.
I believe you're looking for iced tea machines.
Get this or something like it for ease of use. Put in coffee grounds and water. Leave in the fridge for a day or so and shake a couple times.
For cheap coffee that you can find anywhere, Italian Roast comes our very smooth and chocolaty when cold brewed, which is plenty pleasant to drink black.
A French press is my preferred method for hot coffee as well.
The electric part pretty much is a kettle. You can control how long the tea steeps, and let it drop into the decanter, which is nice.
We personally have an electric kettle as well as a coffee machine.
I have personally also made tea using teabags and either a pot on the stove (for sweet tea) or a glass cup in the microwave.
We also have automatic teamakers for making iced tea. like this
Though generally, Americans won't drink hot tea.
Yea I've got some Lipton sitting at home so might start with that (or the bags of English/Irish breakfast I've got), but the loose leaf you linked earlier certainly seems like a fine option. Have you ever tried cold brewing overnight for this? I've got one of these and it's worked pretty well for the fruit-flavored loose leafs that I like.
I really want to get one, but it just doesn't brew enough for me. I brew 64oz every few days, so the size wouldn't cut it. I've messaged them multiple times suggesting a bigger one, who knows if they'll follow through.
Edit: For the record, here is one of my favorite devices for cold brew. Cheap, and brews 64oz easily!
I had the same problem. I HATE hot drinks. I also don't like coffee, so iced coffee was not an option. I have been trying to stay away from diet sodas, as they're just really not the best for you (although, yeah I still have Coke Zero, Diet Pepsi, and Diet Coke every few days or so). So then I found this.
It makes iced tea in 10 minutes! Super super handy!! I have saved a LOT of money at the grocery store as I am not buying soda so much anymore, plus, the tea is really good! I use Tazo tea because i think it is more flavorful. I bought the variety pack from Amazon, which seems a little steep at first, but you have to remember that each teabag fills that entire pitcher, and there are 36 bags altogether. I bought the variety pack 2-3 months ago and I still have a LOT of bags left. My favorite is the passion tea but I really like the black tea and the blushberry.
I've had iced tea made with this one and I really enjoyed the end product.
Another thing to consider is that you need to plan for the total amount of tea you'll end up with after icing it, not just the hot water you use to steep the leaves in.
I honestly really like the results I get from our Mr. Coffee iced tea maker for basic iced black tea.
We also have a Takeya "flash chill" iced tea brewer, which works better for brewing chilled oolongs and such. Since you control the water temp and steeping length, it's also good for brewing black tea that doesn't really match the "basic iced tea" profile.
But really you could just brew really strong tea in any old tea pot (or just a saucepan) and poor over a pitcher of ice.
Yup you can definitely do that. That's how I did my first few batches. I now use one of these. I know it says "Iced Tea Maker", but the one marketed towards cold brew is the same exact thing.
I've found that making cold brew is pretty forgiving. You can use less than ideal beans and come out with a decent product. And you can easily scale up the size of your brewing vessel so long as you have some method of filtering out the grounds.
I know that automatic brewers are heresy here, but this Iced Tea Maker works great with loose leaf tea. The pitcher it comes with is kind of meh but you can use any similiar-sized pitcher. It goes on on sale sometimes for $29
I even use it to brew hot tea directly into a 32oz thermos sometimes when I am in a hurry in the morning.
Pfft, just do it already. Get the BrewDemon: http://www.amazon.com/BrewDemon-80200-Signature-Beer-Kit/dp/B00DCB842U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421595591&sr=8-1&keywords=brewdemon+signature+beer+kit&pebp=1421595592946&peasin=B00DCB842U
Everything is stupid simple, just make sure you sanitize and what-not.
I have used the Mr Coffee Tea maker for nearly 15 years and it makes perfect tea every time.
http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Coffee-Iced-Tea-Maker/dp/B000M3BUVI
I tend to brew cut pieces of tea leaf, so having to use a paper filter keeps grit and dust out.
the temperature, fresh hot water exposure duration, and leaf agitation works just fine,
as long as you only work with 8-12 grams of tea leaf per one quart batch at a time.
best to use loose leaf tea or remove the tea from each bag and use a 8-12 cup coffee filter,
to allow the leaf to agitate - keep the hopper valved closed so only the overflow drips out.
keep in mind this works different from a coffee maker as the tea drips out the upper rim
of a full brew chamber, unlike a coffee machine where the liquid seeps out the bottom.
I buy bulk boxes of Decaf Lipton iced tea bags from Costco, and use a Hamilton Beach Iced Tea Maker to brew a couple of quarts at a time. This is not expensive. What I'm really asking is why I "need" to "ease into water," if what I'm doing is not any worse than drinking water? Why is water better than decaf unsweetened tea?
Basically it makes it comparable to a coffee maker. If you're out of iced tea and you want some, it takes so long to make that you're just going to drink something else. An iced tea maker will make it in 10 minutes. And it's very easy to use bagless tea.
http://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Beach-40911-2-Quart-Electric/dp/B00008VSCO
It's less difficult, if anything. I've never had any issues with strength or anything. Besides, you can always just toss in more ice to dilute it if it's too strong. The maker I have is actually from Salton but it isn't made any more. Based on product info and reviews the one I linked from Hamilton Beach is very similar.