How can I make a good tasting pitcher of iced green tea in my ice tea maker? Can it taste like Arizona?

First off, I love Arizona diet green tea. I would drink it non-stop if I could afford to. I bought a hamilton beach iced tea maker with the hopes of making something that comes close... I have not.

I tried using green tea bags, splenda, and honey.... it is decent but not really that good. Does anyone have an iced tea maker and have had success making something they can actually stand drinking? Asked by newbie181173 55 months ago Similar questions: make tasting pitcher iced green tea ice maker taste Arizona Food & Drink > Food.

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Corn syrup If you want it to taste like Arizona, you have to put in what they use: From arizonabev.com/csr/prodtypeitem.asp?item... "Ingredients: premium brewed green tea using filtered water, high fructose corn syrup, honey, citric acid, natural flavors, ginseng extract, ascorbic acid. " You can count on the honey being less important than the corn syrup - that's the sweetener that you aren't replicating in your kitchen. Sugar just doesn't taste the same.

The citric acid provides some tartness and preservative qualities. No telling what the natural flavors are. The ginseng is for flavor, and if you believe the hype it's good for you too, and the ascorbic acid also provides some tartness and preservative qualities.

The truth is, they're marketing a beverage which is remarkably like most others on the market. That is, this product is really not much about the tea at all, but about a corn syrup and water base (which must be like 95% of all the drinks on the market) to which some flavors have been added. One of them is the tea, of course, and the others are almost certainly there to balance the tea's taste.

That doesn't mean you can't brew a good pot of green tea, but first make sure you actually LIKE green tea! Sounds funny, but I'm serious. Have you ever had a well-made pot of good green tea?

Go find a good Japanese (or sometimes Chinese) restaurant in your area, and ask them to make you one. Do you like it? If not, what you probably like is a HINT of green tea plus all the other stuff Arizona puts in.

If you do like it, then make it the same way at home but balance the bitterness with a light sweetener and some flavoring. Honey is a good start, but don't use too much - it's actually not great as a sweetener on its own because it has sweetness AND flavor, and too much can overwhelm a pot of tea. So, use sugar and honey, or if you have it, corn syrup and honey.(Yeah, yeah, but corn syrup is actually a remarkably good sweetener, and cheap, which is precisely why the industry uses it in the first place.) Then add some lemon juice for tartness and flavor.

If you want ginseng, you can brew it in with the tea. No idea what those other "natural flavors" are, but by this point you're probably pretty close..

Need hotter water for good tea I don't know the exact model of Hamilton Ice tea maker you have, but I checked a lot of home automatic coffee and tea makers with a thermometer and I found that with most, the temperature of the water used for brewing was always about 50 degrees centigrade - this is too low - some of the more subtle flavors in the tea leaves won't come out at that temperature - the best temperature for brewing is 90 centigrade, or if you want to do it the traditional Japanese way, let the water heat until it's starting to boil with small bubbles forming in it, before it gets to have really big bubbles, and take it off the heat - that will be about 90 degrees. You can put the desired amount of tea bags or leaves into a cup of hot water as you want, let them stand for up to three minutes (depending on how strong you like it ), then mix in the honey first and then the splenda, then pour over ice. Unfortunately, I haven't found any ice tea makers that have the right brewing temperature.

There are some coffee/tea makers that do - I use the Bodum vacuum coffee maker - it also makes good tea! -amazon.com/Bodum-K1208-01-Santos-Vacuum-... Hope this helps, Mark Sources: Own opinion .

I don't know what Arizona tastes like The only teas that I have tasted are Lipton ice tea and Nestea Rasberry Ice Tea. I've come up for you a list of ice tea recipes: drinksmixer.com/drink6298.html whatscookingamerica.net/Beverage/IceTeaA... fatfree.com/recipes/drinks/indian-ice-tea" rel="nofollow">fatfree.com/recipes/drinks/indian-ice-tea fatfree.com/recipes/drinks/ recipezaar.com/9499 .

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