Dubious at first I finally did try making tea in my Keurig coffee maker – after some fine tuning I know make a cup of tea that is perfect.
I am an avid tea drinker and my biggest complaint is keep the tea hot enough while not burning it. My grandmother always had a pot of tea warmed on the stove growing up and I didn’t notice the burned taste the tea took on after several hours Maybe adding mountains of sugar killed the bitter burnt taste.

Fast forward many years and I now drink copious amounts of tea… My first cup always taste great and then its downhill from there.
I was actually very surprised- pleasantly so- that the Keurig could make such a great tasting cup of tea. The biggest plus for me is temperature- I like my tea hot and this makes a consistently hot cup of tea.

You can use My K-Cup Reusable Coffee Filter
to use you own coffee or tea in their machine. Their are other 3rd party adapters for the machine that you can buy- like EZ-Cup and Solofill Cup Refillable K-Cup For Keurig Brewers. I use the My K-Cup and happy with results and methods used here fine with other adapters.

First – You need tea. I prefer decaf and when I can find it I buy it loose. It is almost impossible for me to find decaf orange pekoe or decaf English Breakfast tea so I often resort to using bagged tea. I just open the bags. I know some people just pop a tea bag in the filter but I find that the taste just isn’t there.

The hot water comes out pretty fast and I don’t think it gives enough time for tea and water to mix. What I do is grind the loose tea up a little bit. ( You can use mini food processor,Magic Bullet
or clean coffee grinder)

After I grind the tea up a little- not TOO fine.. I put in filter basket of the My K-Cup. About a 1/2 teaspoon full. You can play with this amount.My Keurig has 2 cup sizes. I cycle it through 2 times on the smallest cup size. I find giving it two small passes make for more flavourful tea.

This method works well for almost any tea- herbal teas, loose tea and bagged tea. I also drink nettle tea for iron and this makes it perfectly!

Let me know if you have some other tips or suggestion for making perfect cup f tea in your Keurig Coffee maker.

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