Today's useless fact - Can you use a coffee maker to brew tea?

We do it all the time to make tea. Just drop the tea bags in the funnel in place of the coffee filter. I usually spread them out in a pattern that I think will give them maximum exposure to the water flow, and if they have tags, I leave them hanging over the side. Use the same number you normally would for the amount of tea you plan to make, and run a couple of pots of water through (assuming you're making that much or more, we never make less than a gallon at our house), transferring the tea to a pitcher in between. Stir the sugar into the hot tea, then finish filling the pitcher with water and/or ice. Check out the links in our Tea category for more.