Electric Tea Maker

Comment posted Oster BVSTTM23 21/2Quart IcedTea Maker Black by Lloyd S. Ashby.

Broke after 3 Months
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
It made a excellent pitcher of tea when it worked. I really wanted a Mr. Tea product and could not find it anywhere so I bought the Oster. The design makes tea drip onto the counter after you take the pitcher away. It stopped working after only 3 months and I was not able to return it. I would warn anyone that this is a poor design and poorly constructed. Do not waste your money.

Lloyd S. Ashby also commented

• Loved it when it would WORK!
  Rating:1 out of 5 stars
  I was looking for an ice tea maker with a glass pitcher. Liked the way this one looked. Bought one, worked fine for a few days, then it wouldn’t turn on any more. The on button would fail to ‘click’ and light up, as it had before. Nothing. Thinking maybe I had gotten a lemon, chose to try a replacement since as I mentioned in the title, I really liked it, when it WORKED.

  Got the second one, very quickly. I’ve had it for a few days now. Made about 4 or 5 batches of tea with it. I went to make another one just now and…nothing. It won’t turn on just like the first one. I don’t know for sure, but I suspect it may have something to do with the automatic shutoff feature. I’ve tried unplugging and replugging it, but it made no difference, with either one. There is nothing in the instructions to address this. I’m going to call the help center, to see if there’s ANYTHING I could be doing different, seeing how it’s two of these now that have done this, but at this point, it looks like I’ll be requesting a return mark for this one as well and sending it back along with the first one I got, only for a refund this time, which is too terrible, as I really wanted this to work.

  If this can be corrected in any way after I speak with the service department, as to possibly make it work, then I may change my review, but for now, I can only give it the one star for breaking so quickly and failing to function.

• More Expensive than the others, but well worth the money
  Rating:5 out of 5 stars
  This is the 4th Ice Tea Maker I have bought in the last 5 years. The others were 3 different models made by Mr. Coffee. I was not pleased with any of them. They did not last as I reckon they should have. After being used for a year or so, do to the poor quality of plastic the pitchers were made from, all of the pitchers started leaking and were terribly stained; plus each maker had other problems. The Oster unit costs more, but the quality seems to be well worth it. The way it is designed, it is possible to place a 1 gallon pitcher under the basket and make the iced tea directly into a 1 gallon pitcher or other containers. I have used it to make a large quantity of perfect hot tea also. Remove the filter that comes with it, use bouillon cubes and a disposable coffee filter, it is simple to make perfect, filtered bouillon directly into a measuring cup.
• two ordered none worked
  Rating:1 out of 5 stars
  I ordered two of these tea makers. They looked excellent and cycled through the cleaning cycle. That was the last time either of them would power on.
• I wish I had bought it earlier
  Rating:5 out of 5 stars
  This is a fantastic ice tea maker. There are no water leaks on the counter and the hot water is delivered in the middle of the tea leaves/bags. This is a fantastic improvement over my last MR. you know who, iced tea maker. I would definately suggest it to everyone.
• excellent iced tea maker but glass pitcher is very cheap
  Rating:2 out of 5 stars
  The iced tea maker itself is fine. It works fantastic with bagged tea and losse leaf tea. But, and this is huge, the glass pitcher is very cheap and thin. I’m a very careful person and mine cracked in the first month. I’m going back to the plastic iced tea makers.

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