How to Make Iced Tea in a Microwave
Making tea in a microwave is a great alternative when your coffee pot is dirty or the iced tea maker breaks. Follow these steps for a quick and simple way to make tea in the microwave. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Gather your supplies. These include four small tea bags, or two large, and a large microwave safe cup or bowl.
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Pour 2 cups of water into the microwave safe cup or bowl.
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Tear off the paper tags on the tea bags, or plan to hang them over the side of the cup or bowl.
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Place the tea bags in the water. Hang the paper tags off the side of the container if you did not tear them off.
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Put the microwave safe container into the microwave and heat for 3 minutes.
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Fill a one gallon pitcher with ice. After the microwave turns off, carefully pour the hot tea into the pitcher.
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Add enough cold water to the pitcher to fill it to the top.
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Tips & Warnings
This recipe is for making a gallon of iced tea. Adjust the amount of water up or down for making more or less tea.
You can make hot tea by putting the tea from the microwave into a carafe or hot pot and then filling it with hot water.
To make sweet tea, add a cup of sugar to the hot tea from the microwave. Allow the sugar to dissolve before pouring the tea into the ice-filled pitcher.
The tea will be very hot from the microwave. Use extreme caution when handling it to avoid burns.
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Comments
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I grew up in the South and we drank a lot of iced tea. Using your formula you would not have iced tea, you would have colored water. You only use 4 small tea bags per gallon of water and you should use 1 tea bag for every 8 ounces. Therefore, you should use 16 tea bags. I did try your formula and, to be totally honest, it was the worst thing I have ever had. Most tea companies (i.e. Lipton, Tetley, etc) use the formula of 1 tea bag to 8 ounces of water. To make the tea even better, filtered water is best.
