For ordinary supermarket brands of teabag tea or even loose leaf tea, hot to almost cooking will work fine for tea strong enough for iced tea. Simply use two bags or two teaspoons of tea for eight oz . of water, allow it to needlessly steep three to five minutes, then decant the leaves (or eliminate the teabags. ) Allow the tea to cool before refrigerating, covered, until ready to use.

Make extra tea any time you make iced black cube tea and put the additional amount in ice cube trays. This is very helpful in relaxing the tea without diluting it as iced water cubes can do. Fresh fruit juices like orange or orange are delicious in iced teas. If you want to pretty in the cubes, place one or two fresh berry like raspberries, blackberries, blueberries or a de-stemmed strawberry in each cube. Slices of stone fruit like nectarines or peaches are great, too. Mint leaves are delightful to add to the cubes in order to garnish a tall glass of your favorite iced tea.

For gourmet teas from Zarafina temperature is very important, for high quality, outstanding gourmet teas. A good few degrees of too hot a temperature or a minute too long in stepping time will establish the tea nasty. On the other hand, under steeping can make the tea tastes weak and flavorless. Too low a temperature is not an issue, but longer steeping times bring about both perfume and flavor.

To take the guesswork out of steeping your tea, consider an automatic system that does all the thinking for you. You can literally set the temperature and time by indicating the type of tea (white, green, oolong, black or herbal) and indicate the tea strength. The equipment will steep your tea according to your directions; need to watch a time. No thinking, just pleasurable tea drinking.

The Zarafina Hot Tea Maker Suite is an automatic tea making system that automatically tunes its the water temperature, steeping time, and tea strength for both loose leaf tea or tea bags. The Tea Maker Suite includes a 16-ounce ceramic teapot, two 8-ounce pens, and a serving tray. To make iced tea with the Tea Maker, steep as usual, allow the tea to cool slightly, add ice, and serve. Avoid watering down your tea by adding ice cubes made of tea or juice.

SUMMARY: The pleasure of drinking gourmet iced tea is enhanced when you match the correct water temperature and appropriate steeping time with the right tea. Whites and greens require under cooking water, from a hundred and eighty to 190°F; oolongs need hotter water, from 190 to 195°F; blacks need from 205 to 212°F, and herbals can be infused with cooking water, 212°F To take the guesswork out of determining the right water temperature and steeping time, consider an automatic system that does all the thinking for you and, best of all, results in a fabulous pot of tea served hot or cooled for iced tea pleasure. Consider the Zarafina Tea Maker Suite has an adjustable tea strength setting from mild to strong, steeps both loose leaf and bagged tea, and temperature and steeping time are adjustable.

Zarafina means mind-blowing, like a special friend who greets you with kindness and warmth, and a cup of the world’s finest teas: White Hook, Green Anji, Wuyi Oolong Rock, Golden Monkey, and Osmanthus, a caffeine-free herbal. Some of our teas is the finest example of its category: white, green, oolong, black, and herbal.

Steeping these fine gourmet teas deserves awareness of water temperature and time and we make this as simple as pressing a button with the Zarafina Hot Tea Maker Suite It steeps whites and greens with cooler water, oolongs, blacks and herbals with hotter water, automatically and takes either loose leaves or teabags. And, it can adjust the effectiveness of your tea in the cup from mild to strong. The result is 16 oz . of pure nectar, tea that the gods meant it to taste.