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How do you make iced tea?
Besides Guinness, sweet tea is the one thing I have craved this pregnancy. I'm become even more sensitive to caffeine while pregnant (like up all night from one Peach Tea Snapple at lunch), so I have been making my own decaff. But it just tastes watered down most of the time. I can't decide if it is because it is decaff or I'm not letting it steep long enough or adding too much water or not using enough tea bags.
So tell me - what's your recipe/steps for the perfect iced tea?
How many bags? How long do you steep? What size container do you use? If you're a sweet tea girl, when do you add the sugar?
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Re: How do you make iced tea?
I have the iced tea maker. It's basically a coffeepot for tea. I use four bags of decaf tea. It's less than $20, and I use it almost every day.
When I worked at Cracker Barrel back in the day (I don't even want to think how long ago that was), sweet tea was one of the first things they taught you. They do four gallons of tea to a pitcher of sugar. Add hot water to the sugar (super hot, like out of the coffee maker hot), mix it up, dump it in.
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I have an Iced tea maker also. I buy the Lipton's Iced Tea bags and use 3 of those, I am sure it's the same with decaf bags. My MIL uses a regular old coffee maker to make hers. I don't drink iced tea but DH loves it, so I put Sweet Low in it for him just like his Momma makes it because that's the only way he will drink it.
ETA: I add my sweetner after it is done brewing. At work we use liquid sweetner called Sweet-N-ez, which is like a pint or so of sweetner to like 4 gallons of brewed tea.
I boil some water (maybe 3 cups...doesn't really matter at this point). When the water is boiling I remove it from the heat and put in 5 tea bags. I let that steep for 5 minutes.
While that is steeping I put about 3/4 cup of sugar into the 2 quart pitcher and add a little hot water to dissolve the sugar. After the 5 minutes are up I pour the tea into the pitcher, stir it up to get the sugar distributed good and make sure it's all dissolved, then I fill the pitcher the rest of the way up with cold water and stir again.
My Granny's sweet tea was probably sweeter than Chick-Fil-A's so super sweet. I don't think the sugar is the problem though.
I think I need to use more tea bags. I've been using 4 large tea bags for a 1 gallon pitcher. It sounds like everyone else uses more.
I like my tea sweet like CFA but I don't do measurements.
I put water in a pot, 6-7 teabags depending on my mood and I boil it for 10-20 minutes. I let it cool, pour it in a gallon pitcher and then add cold water to fill it up. I then dump sugar in it tasting as I go along.
I do almost exactly this. I think I use 6-8 small teabags though. I pour steeped tea over 2 cups sugar in a gallon pitcher and add cold water until filled.