Mr. Coffee Under Recall - 600k units

[Riverwind (imported)]

wonderful, thanks fhunter

River

[Riverwind (imported)]

Tea?

Been reading too much HPFF again?

Been drinking tea a lot longer then that, 40 plus years.

Hate Coffee, it smells bad and taste worse.

Now I think I will go steep a pot, (Earl Grey) where did I leave that tea cosy.

River

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Been drinking tea a lot longer then that, 40 plus years.

Hate Coffee, it smells bad and taste worse.

Now I think I will go steep a pot, (Earl Grey) where did I leave that tea cosy.

River

Like you I don't drink coffee, (though I love the smell, and the taste in ice cream or mochas) but I run on tea. I start the day with a quart pot of hot tea then switch to iced tea. Most of the day I have a glass of unsweetened ice tea or a cuppa hot at my side. I average about three quarts pots of tea a day. Between the tea and the spironolactone I do pee a lot.

Sometimes (particularly here in Seattle, home of Starbuck's) I feel a member of one of America's most oppressed minorities: not transsexuals, but tea drinkers. I can go to almost any corner and find world class coffee. (Even 7-11 sells stuff like Sumatran free-trade mountain grown aribica) but trying to find a decent cup of tea is an exercise in frustration. You order in a restaurant and they pour water from a pot that has sat on the other side of their coffee machine for three days getting stale, into a small metal pot leaving the tea bag (also usually stale) on the side, then leave it sitting there getting tepid while they get all the drinks together for five minutes before they deliver it to the table. At a friends once she made tea for a group by pouring hot water from the tap into six cups, then took one tea bag and dunked it successively into each cup for about ten seconds, then served them; yuck.

Then there is the problem of trying to find an electric tea maker. 25 years ago Costco sold a Krups tea maker that worked beautifully for about $25. You could set the brewing time, it would heat the water to the proper temp, drop it into the leaves to brew for the proper time, then filter it into a heated carafe. Unfortunately they lasted about a year to 18 months before they stopped working, and the local repairman said parts weren't available. I went through three of them before they became unavailable. Now any appliance store has coffee makers from the low teens to thousands of dollars, but there are very few tea makers. When Mr Coffee introduced a Mrs. Tea I bought one, and brewed a few pots but the tea was awful. I checked and it was brewing tea at 190 (the correct temp for coffee) rather than boiling which is correct for tea. The result was insipid tea. If you added more leaves you ended up w/ tea that was too strong, but still tasted flat. So I returned it. The sales clerk thought I was a nut. Breville has one now that I have been thinking about but it costs almost $250. Right now I use a Bodum vacuum coffee maker I bought on E Bay that does a pretty good job, almost as well as doing the tea kettle and tea pot route. I bought it used and had to run alternate bleach water and vinegar water and baking soda water batches through it for a week to get the coffee taste out.

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[The Plumber (imported)]

still like coffee,on a tea kick now use my 4 cup GE c maker w/ 6 bags works:-\

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still like coffee,on a tea kick now use my 4 cup GE c maker w/ 6 bags works:-\

Anything that has been used for coffee, I can taste the coffee until it has been washed at least a dozen times.

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[Riverwind (imported)]

That's for sure, nothing short of Lime away and a good soaking of vinegar for a day before it might be usable again.

I have a Brita water filter pitcher things, that water goes in the tea pot, the water I boil is clear filtered pure water.

River