Mr. Coffee TM3 Iced Tea Maker
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Mr. Coffee TM3 Iced Tea Maker
Customer Review: very frustrated with this new design
Summary: 2 Stars
i had the old version of the mr coffee iced tea maker, the one with the orangey basket that sat atop the pitcher for brewing and the two pitchers and i loved that one. i drink a lot of tea and it was so nice to be able to have an extra pitcher so that i never ran out. unfortunately, after five years of constant use, it finally gave out. i'd broken one of the pitchers when i accidentally dropped it and decided to just buy whole new replacement.
this design is not an improvement. i hate the spout thing that you must move to the side to fill the chamber with water and then insert the basket that holds the tea bags and then move it back. seems to me that this will break easily. i've made probably thirty pitchers of tea so far and the pitcher is already starting to stain from where the brewed tea trickles down from the spout and into the pitcher. the person who posted about the spilling with nearly every glass poured was correct. but the absolute worst thing i hate about this is how much tea ends up on the counter and not in the pitcher. i put the pitcher up against the machine as tightly as i can, trying to align the spout just perfectly, but almost every time, i've got tea all over my counter when i come back to check on it. grrrr!
Customer Review: Couldn't Live Without My Mr. Coffee Tea Maker
Summary: 5 Stars
When my old Mr. Coffee Tea Maker started acting up, I panicked. I drink iced tea 24/7/365 so not having a tea maker just wasn't an option. I immediately went online to find a replacement and was thrilled to find that Mr. Coffee still makes the same model that I have used and loved for many, many years. Unlike some of the other reviews that I've read, my 3-quart tea maker has worked like a charm and I have had no problems whatsoever with the pitchers cracking (but I wash them by hand so that may well be the difference). The tea maker is fast and efficient and, in my opinion, very easy to use. I do find that I need to soak the basket in dishwasher detergent after brewing to get the tea stains out but that is a simple fix. Also I use filtered water bc our hard water would probably clog up the lines in a nanosecond so that would be another recommendation I would make for all users. Otherwise, I expect that my new tea maker and I are going to be quite happy together for the next 10 or 20 years! (...and FYI, after reading the Use and Care booklet that came with my new tea maker, I ran a bottle of vinegar thru that old one that I thought was on the fritz and, Voila, it is now working again just perfectly!)Customer Review: One item I cannot live without!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am an iced tea junkie. I drink it instead of coffee. I refuse to drink "tea" from a soda fountain because it is not real tea. Although I rarely eat fast food, when I do I only will eat at a location with good tea. My first drink in the morning? Tea of course.
I bought this item first about 8 years ago and kept it at my office. I brew three batches a week. The little unit kept working. After all this time, the lip finally cracked on the pitcher so it leaked a little when I brewed. Looking at the stained brewing basket and figuring I got more than my $20 worth out of the unit, I bought a new one.
I am just as happy as ever with my new unit. They call this a 3-quart maker, though the pitcher is 6 quarts. You use twice as many tea bags to make 3 quarts and when finished, you top it off with water. Then you have 6 quarts of tea. The secret to this machines effectiveness is that it get the water VERY hot. That is the secret to good tea. At home, my wife boils water and turns it off and then adds tea bags to make tea. That tea is not nearly as good as that made with my Mr. Coffee Iced Tea Maker. I would be lost without this.
Customer Review: great! -- if you love the taste of burnt plastic
Summary: 1 Stars
I had the 2 quart mr. coffee iced tea maker for years, loved it until the pitcher broke when i dropped it on the hardwood floor :-(
I'm planning ahead for the summer, and since sun tea is not a healthy option because of bacteria, I bought this machine. I cleaned it according to instructions, ran it for a batch of tea, and served it at dinnertime. We all took one sip and spit it out. Plastic.
Hmmm, I thought. Maybe it needs another cleaning? I ran it through another cleaning. Made another batch of iced tea, served it at dinner. Blechhh, plastic taste.
This story continues on thru four more cleanings and a run-through with vinegar. Still plastic. Even the water coming thru the last cleaning with vinegar wreaked of plastic smell. That's some powerful plastic....
In the end, after one call to a clueless Mr. Coffee consumer helper, 32 wasted tea bags and four huge batches of ice, I have to return it.
I googled "my Mr. Coffee iced tea maker tastes like plastic" to see if I am alone, and alas, I am not the only one. Apparently, some of these are okay, and some are not.
So disappointed.
Customer Review: Not worth it...
Summary: 1 Stars
I used to use the old style tea maker years ago (I was happy with that one). I wanted to try a tea maker again, so I bought this one. The first round of tea was very weak. I put in an additional filter to see if that would help the water brew longer, but it was still weak. I returned it to the store, and this is how I am currently making tea:
I use my regular coffee pot (12 cup capacity) with 6-9 bags of tea (depending on how strong I want it). I have a 1 gallon pitcher, and I fill that up with ice. When the tea has finished brewing, I add sugar if I want, then I pour the hot liquid over the ice. It makes the tea cold and ready to drink, plus I have a lot more than just 2-3 quarts.
This works just fine for me--I don't have to worry about a cracking pitcher because the glass coffee pot can handle the heat. I also do not have to store an extra base housing unit that really only serves one function. I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but it is essentially the exact same thing that is being done with the tea maker, except you don't have to buy any additional equipment.