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China Mist is not extremely high-quality, just a nice every-day tea that tastes fine. I recommend letting the tea settle before serving. The sample pack gives you a chance to try some variety, and it lasts a while. Decent every-day loose-leaf tea. The China Mist brand is good, the only downside is some of the tea is pulverized too fine, so there is sediment in the tea.
It made me think what I'd been missing; this tasted like what the British must drink, the full-bodied teas they enjoy. In fairness, the Bamilton Beach Iced Tea make was $22.49; commercial models are $600 or more, but they brew their stronger teas in only 8 (versus 10) minutes. This is a dual review, as it has to be. Each of 24 packets contains four ounces of the world's choicest tea leaves, with stellar flavorings mixed in (dried, crushed mango; dried, crushed passion fruit; dried, crushed raspberry; pure, strong tea).My first experience with it was at a restaurant where our daughter works. Our Hamilton Beach unit made a weaker tea than I would have liked; we'll reduce the amount of water from now on and see what that does. I asked the manager if he could share the tea secret: Well, we use the industry's best, China Mist. Indeed.The flavor was, if you'll pardon me, complex and could be rated as you would a nice wine--action, hints of this or that, a new rush at the end of your taste cycle.
It may be the difference between a home-level heat limit, or maybe the fact that the water is not "pressured" over the tea as much as it might be in a commercial machine, or maybe the commercial machines are much better insulated around the steeping container. The tea is already ice cold.
It was fantastic, nearly the highlight of my meal, which itself was outstanding. We add the recommend water and ice cubes, and the brewing cycle indeed does take only 10 minutes.
The first part covers the delicious, needs-nothing-else China Mist iced tea varieties included in this box. Apparently Americans add as much extra water to our tea as we do to our coffee (What the French hear when we order a java over there: I'll have coffee, with a cup of water on top).The second part of the review concerns our Hamilton Beach iced tea machine.
A wildly expensive two minutes. She said, Order the iced tea, Dad, you won't need to put any sugar or lemon or anything into it (always looking out for my diabetes).
Everybody says it's the best they've had.
We have an iced tea maker and used a cone coffee filter which works just fine. It comes loose in little plastic baggies so if you want to use it you have to have some sort of filter. I did buy a 2 inch tea ball but the loose tea just falls right through it so I guess I didn't buy the right thing. I love this tea and have no complaints. I just want to comment on how the tea is packaged.
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