Accuracy is the key to a good cup of tea. Tea is delicate, and unfortunately, it’s way too easy to screw up any one of the three T’s –Tea, Time, and Temperature — if you don’t have an accurate method for getting them just right. Mess up any one of these, and you end up with weak, tasteless, or bitter tea.
Enter the Breville One Touch Tea Maker, which makes brewing tea just as easy as making a cup of drip coffee in a coffeemaker. Manual brewing just can’t compare. The tea infuser basket controls the first T, the amount of tea itself. You’ve gotta get this right to have a proper cup of tea.
As for the second and third T’s — time and temperature — the Breville Tea Maker does all the hard work for you with pre-programmed brewing times and temperatures for different types of tea.
How Does the Breville BTM800XL One Touch Tea Maker Work?
There are foolproof presets on the Breville electric tea brewer for Green Black, White, Oolong, and Herbal teas, which develop their best flavors and aromas at different temperatures and brewing times. (Who knew?)
There’s also a custom setting if you want to shun the recommendations and brew your tea at whatever time (in 30-second increments) and temperature (in 5-degree increments) you like. Just use the up and down buttons to make your adjustments.
When the water reaches the right temperature, the magnetic loose leaf tea basket automatically (and gently) lowers the tea into the water to start brewing.
You know how you repeatedly dunk your tea bag or tea ball into hot water to try to infuse it? The Breville Tea Maker’s tea basket automatically moves up and down to agitate and disperse flavor — which is waaay better than the dunking thing you’ve been doing. The hot water fully circulates through the individual tea leaves for maximum infusion, which means better flavor.
You can program the steeping timer for you desired tea strength: strong, medium, mild, or custom. The cool thing is that the Breville tea maker steeps at a constant temperature throughout the whole steeping time. That’s something that you can’t do manually. The tea leaf basket automatically lifts out of the water based on your selection to prevent over-steeping.
The pour spout has a filter to catch any bits of loose tea that might have escaped the tea basket.
The attractive Breville One Touch Tea Maker features a brushed stainless steel base, a BPA free lid, a stainless steel tea basket and a German-made, clear Schott glass kettle that allows you to see all the action. You can also monitor progress by viewing the LED display, which will show the current water temperate and a countdown of the steep time. The buttons for your selected brew settings will be lit as well.
More Cool Features of the Breville Tea Maker
You can use the “hot water” setting on this automatic tea maker to heat up water for hot chocolate, instant oatmeal, or whatever. Water fill lines on the pitcher indicate how much to fill it for tea vs. hot water.
While tea is not enough to get me going in the morning, if you do want to wake up to a cup, there’s a wake-up auto brew setting that will automatically brew a cup at whatever time you set. (Use it for your daily afternoon tea time, if you prefer.)
Hit the “Keep Warm” button to keep you tea warm up to an hour for tasty refills. The “Time Since Brew” display timers monitor the freshness of your tea. There’s also a “Basket” button to lower the tea basket on command, in case you feel the need to infuse your tea a bit more.
For tea lovers and daily tea drinkers, the Breville One Touch Tea Maker eliminates the guesswork, the thinking, and much of the actual work, too, for a perfect cup of tea every time.
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