 This is a great tea maker! |
| Review Date: July 12, 2010 |
| Reviewer: djm, los Angeles, CA |
I am so surprised at the negative reviews for this!
I bought it a year ago, and it is an incredible product. It has literally changed my coffee habit from all day to one cup in the AM, then I switch to tea....I feel better, I seem to lose weight drinking tea, it's great all around. I find it really easy to use and I actually save on tea by using it. I have zero problems cleaning it. I returned 2 other tea makers before getting this....they were flimsy and inferior.
Any time I've tried to make tea on my own, it's been bitter or too weak..always not quite right. Now for a year I've had perfect tea every single day. I hated spending the money....and I am so glad I did. I also make a ton of iced tea. I never write reivews, and decided to write this because I am just about to purchase a second one as a gift....trust me, if it wasn't great I would never spend the money...especially not twice!!
It does leave liquid in the steeping unit....I just tip it over the counter into the sink. It takes 3 seconds...of course, take out the glass carafe before you do this! |
I love this tea machine
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| Review Date: October 25, 2009 |
| Reviewer: L. Helm, |
I had a Zarafina tea maker. Scratch that. I had THREE Zarafina tea makers in 9 months--they kept breaking. It wasn't worth it. Plus it made not a lot of tea.
I have been thrilled with this machine. I am mostly a black tea drinker and occasional green tea and the settings suit me just fine. The interface is indeed tedious and if I were, perhaps, a more "gourmet" tea drinker, the setting issues might be a real problem. But I'm a person who cares enough to prefer loose tea and to want my water to boil (for black) and not quite boil (for green), and this machine has made me drink far far more tea than I ever have before. And that speaks for itself, I think.
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Best Tea Maker
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| Review Date: May 13, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Uri Vaisman, Appleton, WI USA |
I have been using a Mrs. Tea for several years, brewing high grade tea every couple of days. It took one brewing with the IQ Innovations 51552 machine to realize how good tea should taste!! I wish I knew about that products years ago.
Although cleaning is a bit time consuming, and the price relatively high, it is definitely worth the effort and cost. Any person appreciating a gourmet cup of fresh tea should own this machine. |
Great machine
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| Review Date: November 24, 2008 |
| Reviewer: James Siegrist, |
This is an amazing machine... the setting you have to get used; depending on who produces your tea and there recommendations... you may have to use the black leaf setting for a chai or something... not really a big deal.
Great time saver like coffee machines this is the same idea... just fill it up and put in the right amount of tea... 4 tsp's I prefer to add an additional tsp for a bit stronger tea... figure it out your own preferences.
Ice tea made the right way... Brew your tea's extra strength 8 Tsp. fill a pitcher with ice, pour the pot in said pitcher, wait a few hours and you got quality Ice tea at a fraction it costs at your supermarket.
This machine is great... not prefect i really wish there was the ability to set Temp and time manually but you can't always get what you want all the time.
Relax and brew some TEA! |
Great tea maker, not perfect.
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| Review Date: February 18, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Andrew Evans, South bend, IN |
The Fine T Tea maker from IQ innovations.
Good:
-Makes 4 cups
-Has a rinse feature for tea. Although I would like to tweak that a bit.
-Mostly stainless steal and glass.
-Mostly very well made.
-Self cleaning, handy.
-Infusion basket is full size, so the tea has room to expand. It also is removable, and easy to clean sense it is stainless steal. This was one major draw back of the Zarafina, it's infusion basket was only half the size of the amount you could brew.
-Timer, it can be set the night before to make you tea in the morning!
-Has an automatic function for a second brew.
-Keeps tea warm for up to 30 minutes.
Bad:
-Very little temperature control. I though this would be the best part of this machine, with the lcd display and menu interface I assumed I would have more temperature chooses then 205 and 160. This also is to cold for some Black teas, and a bit to hot for some white teas.
-It's huge! Well this really is not that bad, but it is almost twice the size of the Zarafina and does not really fit under my cupboards on the counter. Of course it does make 4 cups.
-Some oddly cheap plastic parts. For example the infusion lid is made of plastic and puts off a plastic smell when brewing black tea.
-An interface only a programmer would love. It is not terribly user friendly, yet it is not hard ether. It does end up being tedious to deal with.
-Bad viewing angle on the LCD, I am taller, and find myself leaning over to see it clear. If it had more features, I would be impressed, but when I can not even dial in a temperature I wonder why we need it for the basic settings. That is until you use the timer for tea in the morning, then you will like it.
Over all it has a feeling of a beta tea maker. A great first attempt for them, but obviously has a few bugs and corners that were cut un-neededly. You can tell they really understand what is important about brewing tea, with features including the pre rinse, but for some reason they fumble with only two temperature settings. Maybe they had internal pressure to cut costs or to rush its release? The tea comes out tasting great. Sure it is not as good as a gung fu method, but it is fairly close if you do not have time to make it by hand. So long as you don't need to brew at a temperature besides 160 or 205. If this tea maker was not so expensive, I would be more impressed, but at a retail price of $299 I would not recommend it unless you really needed 4 cups at a time, would like to wake up to fresh tea, or are independently wealthy. Now if you can pick one up on ebay for cheap, then thats a different story.
Ignoring price, it is better then the Zarafina. But considering retail price, the Zarafina is a much better buy.
I give it 4 out of 5 stars. |
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