Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is a great iced tea maker. I will give a few tips of how I use it to give it such a high rating. First off, don't follow their instructions. Everybody's taste is different so use as many or as few tea bags/loose tea as you require. Second, if you like sweet tea, don't fill the container up with ice before brewing, it's too hard to disolve the sugar in cold water. Third, I do use 12 tea bags to brew a 3 quart batch of tea but once the brewing cycle is over I dump the tea bags in the hot tea and let them steep for another 15-30 minutes to get the taste I desire without using more tea bags. I add one squeezed lemon to the warm tea after the sugar disolves and the tea bags are removed. I then add cold filtered water to the pitcher to reach the 3 quart line. It is so much better than the boiling water on the stove and steeping method, although you will get a stronger flavor with less tea bags. I always use filtered water, it just seems to work better. Bottom line, try brewing several batches until you get the taste that hits home with you. It took me about 5 pitchers until I said " dang, that's good"