 "Great bottle warmer" | 2009-11-16 |
| - Reviewed By bargainbookie |
We bought this bottle warmer after the Avent warmer was not available. I must say I am pleasantly surprised!
1-It is compact, which takes up a lot less counter space than the other bottle warmers. During the day we use the bottle in the kitchen and at night we take it upstairs to our bathroom for easy feedings.
2-The price! It is half the price of the Avent warmer and has an auto shut-off mode.
3-Auto Shut-off! In most cases, you'd have to buy a more expensive bottle warmer just for auto shutoff feature.
4-Easy to clean and even easier to use. We use tap water with our warmer and no problem...but we do clean it out every day--quick wipe. I haven't seeen any residue from using tap water. Also, I've accidentally spilled milk in the warmer and it was a breeze to clean.
I would have given this warmer 5 stars except it can be hit or miss with the amount of water you have to add in order to warm the contents. I usually aim low (just to take the chill out of the milk) so it really doesn't bother me and baby doesn't mind either. We're also heating up about 3 ozs in an 8 oz bottle so that may have something to do with the varying temperature.
Overall, I highly recommend this bottle warmer. It beats standing in front of a running faucet or boiling water just to warm some milk. |
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 "First Years? Didn't even last 9 months..." | 2009-09-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2NLVJMOCY13U7 |
| We were generally happy with this product, until it stopped working. You have to use it with distilled water, not tap, otherwise you have to clean it daily with vinegar because of the mineral build-up. This morning, it just stopped working. After just 8 months of use, a few months before we would have otherwise retired it. We are frustrated as we are so close to weaning off the bottle that we don't want to buy another bottle warmer & certainly wouldn't buy this one again. It is very compact. |
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 "great great great" | 2009-09-12 |
| - Reviewed By User: AUQ3E9IDAOIRB |
EXCELLENT product - - VERY VERY useful while traveling (there are electric plug points in all restaurants, hotel rooms and at airport gates etc).
very useful at home too. |
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 "Good product idea, not very accurate heating" | 2009-08-31 |
| - Reviewed By User: A109JH6SL0SVL |
| Overall, this is a lifesaver. It is a great product, but the little measuring cup provided is difficult to fill up to the right line (which are really close together) and too little or too much water tends to over/underheat the bottle. But this saves time over boiling and is healthier/safer than microwaving. Gave it a 3 because it has it's ups, but it's downs become irritating when you use it 5-7 times daily! |
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| "A must have for a formula fed baby" | 2009-08-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2RTCTTNROH03O |
| I bought this 2 months ago when my son was born. This bottle warmer is a necessity in my opinion for a bottle fed baby. All you do is plug it in, add water with the measuring cup, stick the bottle in and press the button. The bottle is done within 2 to 3 minutes and is heated just right every time. I do like to shake the bottle to give it an even warmth before feeding the baby. The warmer can hold small skinny bottles or the wider bottles and angled bottles. It can also warm up baby food jars. You can stick the whole bottle in the warmer, even the bottle cover and it will be fine. At night, this is wonderful because you don't want to have to get a pan out and pour the formula and wait until it heats, then you have to test to see if it is the right temperature, pour it back into the bottle and close the bottle. This is too much trouble when you are half asleep and possibly holding a fussy baby who is hungry. With the warmer, all you do is grab a bottle out of the fridge and stick it in the warmer, and wait until the light goes off and you are done. It can be done with one hand. |
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 "Good concept, horrible instructions, inconsistent results" | 2009-08-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: AYML04H4R39RU |
My only criticism of this product stems from the need to measure a small amount of water in order to heat the bottle, and the process this measurement entails.
A small plastic vial for measuring the water is included. In order to determine the amount of water to use, you consult one of two tables included in the instructions. On these tables, you find the bottle size that you are using in the top row, the amount of milk you wish to heat in the left column, and then (in theory) the amount of water you must add in the intersecting cell of the table.
Unfortunately, it only gives entries for 4oz. and 9oz. "wide mouth" bottles, and for 4oz. and 8oz. "standard" bottles, and for 2,4,6 and 8oz. amounts of milk. It gives no indication what the dimensions of a "standard" or "wide mouth" bottle are, so unless you know this ahead of time, you're in trouble. The amounts of water you need for each vary considerably. But this is only the beginning: it gets worse.
If you need to warm - for example - 3oz. in a 5oz. bottle, you are likely to be frustrated. (Yes, I have a 5oz. bottle, which evidently the designers of this thing didn't think existed, or didn't think to include in the table of instructions.) If you think you can simply interpolate between the 2oz. and 4oz. amounts, you're wrong. The vial is NOT graduated in uniform units, so 5.5 is *not* halfway between 4 and 7 on the vial. To further complicate things, some of the values specify "fill this amount twice". Since the units are not uniform, two fillings of 4 are not equal to one filling of 8. The units are not uniform, exponential, or any other reasonable scale I can think of.
In addition, if you don't plan on heating identical amounts every time, you must keep the handy reference table nearby whenever you want to use the thing. How convenient! Perhaps I will tape it to the inside of the kitchen cabinet - convenient and aesthetically pleasing, all at once!
The whole process seems extremely awkward. A better solution would have been to just add a fill line inside the unit, fill to the same amount for every bottle, get rid of the stupid vial, and add a thermocouple to sense when the whole thing is warm enough and automatically shut off.
The end result is that you end up guessing, and through a process of trial and error, establishing how much water is "enough". If I wanted to guess, I wouldn't have bought a special freakin' machine to heat the bottle, I would have just used hot water in a pan like they did in the olden days. Trial and error defeats the entire purpose for purchasing the thing in the first place.
Whoever designed this thing should be smacked with a radiator hose. |
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