AliceG said

Brewing for iced tea and reusing the leaves?

Do you have a good system for brewing iced tea that lets you reuse the tea leaves? I don’t have the freezer space for enough ice cubes to cool a whole pitcher of tea, so I am trying to figure out some way to brew the tea before I go to bed, then chill overnight. I’m not sure all the teas I want to use are safe to cold brew (I’ve heard some teas flavored with fruit pieces or flower petals aren’t) so I’m hesitant to do so.

I’ve thought of boiling a kettle full of water, then repeatedly infusing 2 cups at a time. But I’m also worried that if I do that and then pour each batch into a glass pitcher that it might break. I thought my Bormioli Rocco glass pitcher was safe to use with hot water, but when I looked online at a similar one it said it wasn’t.

I prefer iced green tea most of the time, and one of the ones I like is a jasmine that is too flowery on the first infusion, but would probably be about right averaged over several infusions.

I’ve got limited storage space and money to devote to buying new tea gadgets and/or pitchers, although there are some days I would drink a couple quarts of iced tea if I had it readily available.

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Kittenna said

Can you brew tea extra-strong and dilute it? E.g. pour boiling water over the tea, then pour everything, tea leaves and all, into a larger pitcher filled with cooler water, then pop into the fridge? I’m generally not too worried about cold brewing herbals, but a quick infusion in boiling water should take care of any issues, I’d think, and then you can basically switch to a cold brew routine.

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