Homecraft Electric Iced Tea Maker for Sweet Tea and Cold Brew Coffee, Double Insulated Pitcher, Black, Small

Love, love, love this iced tea maker! I use it almost every day and it's exactly what I wanted! Works like a charm, it's quick, and super easy to use.

Not the highest quality, but it gets the job done. I have no qualms with this product, only that tea makers have gotten so crazy expensive for something that weighs a feather and has no special features and a toddler could operate it.

Homecraft Iced Tea Maker! Works great. Easy to use. Small area of space. Recommend!

This makes pretty good iced tea. I have been using loose leaf tea and a tea pot with infuser to brew the tea. I've done this for many years and easily adapted my method for this tea maker. I make sweet tea daily using these steps: * Add 2 heaping tablespoons of Twinnings English breakfast and spread over the bottom. * Add 1/2 cup of sugar in the filter (no coffee filters used). I don't spread it out, just pile it in the center. * Add water to the pitcher up to the water line and pour into the tea maker * Add 3 'scoops' of ice to the pitcher. Then add water to the water line. This should be just enough to float the ice. If the ice doesn't float, remove some of the ice until it floats and the water is at the water line. This ensures the same amount of water in the pitcher every time. You don't need the ice at all, but I prefer it so the tea is cool and I can put it directly into the refrigerator. Plus, we have an automatic ice maker and this helps keep the ice fresh. * Place the empty pitcher in the machine, set the strength to 4 and start. Play around with the strength, sugar, and tea as needed for your own taste. This isn't true southern sweet tea as it only uses about half the sugar my grandma used. I like this method because I don't have to deal with tea bags. I get loose leaf Twinnings tea on Amazon and use about one tin a month, which means it's about $6/month for the tea. Much cheaper than buying soda or flavored waters. And fewer additives. This makes enough for the pitcher we use in the refrigerator plus about another glass full. Adjustments are easily made to make less. Cleaning is easy. I take out the basket and turn upside down on a paper towel, then add it to the compost bin. Rinse out the basket after each use by running water backwards through the filter (i.e. from the bottom) until the basket doesn't have any tea left in it, being sure to tilt to get the sides. Every few uses, also rinse out the larger basket the filter sits in with hot water, depressing the mechanism so water drains through the hole in the bottom. The only caveat I've found is that the start button is not an on/off switch. If you press it while the machine is plugged in and is empty, it will start to smoke. There is no way to shut it off unless one unplugs the pitcher or adds water. The instructions are very clear about this, please read them. They specifically state to unplug the machine between uses, which I find to be a bit inconvenient. Still better than my old method, but it shouldn't be necessary. If they manufacturer provided a better mechanism for turning this on and off, I'd give it a 5.

Ok so I had to come and review this one! I am so glad I bought this. It’s nothing fancy but boy oh boy makes my black ice tea perfect for me. I love strong ice tea cause I love extra ice in my drink and this worked perfect ice tea in 15 minutes.you can just the strength of tea as well if you like less strong just just. I highly recommend I was skeptical but finally purchased it was a winner! thank you homecraft!

Works as advertised. Takes about twenty minutes to fill the pitcher. Good capacity in the pitcher. Be mindful of the difference between pitcher and reservoir when adding ice. Pitcher is plastic and could be a little more durable but it's expected to work with ice so no major issue there. Tastes like tea when its done. Enough to fill my 3 quart drinking mug.

Great tea maker. Easy to use and allows variable brewing strengths.

It makes real good tea. It's NOT stainless steel as it says. It's all plastic!! Easy to use. Fast. Much better than the 2 Mr Coffee tea makers I was using.

Entire product is plastic not stainless steel as described

Excellent product I love it Works really good

Firstly this was not stainless steel as advertised. Secondly, and most importantly, the item had been used and was not cleaned. Will add this seller to my no buy list.