I bought this steriliser from babies r us for £35. It looked like a real bargain as it claimed to sterilise in just 5 minutes and came with free Closer to Nature bottles so we thought we would buy this one and try it.
The steriliser overall is fairly decent- it holds 6 bottles although this is quite a tight squeeze so we just tended to do 4 at a time. Above the main body of the steriliser is a shelf for you to put small items on like the teets. The lid then would flip shut and you could lock it by pushing the plastic lock across.
To work the steriliser you had to put in 75ml of water (although this often wouldn't work and we found ourselves sometimes adding double this) and pressing the button. The steriliser works through it's system of heating up, sterilising, cooling down and ready.
The sterilising system is meant take 5 minutes but it took plenty more than that! More like 15 minutes so I think this lets the machine down as it was sold with a big sign on the front 'unique 5 minutes'... sadly it lied!
The steriliser once it has done it's job counts down from 3, 2, 1 depending on how many hours it was since the steriliser has been used. Once it reaches 0 then the bottles inside are no longer sterisle. Apparently there are sterilisers which will keep bottles sterisle for over 12 hours so maybe I should have done my research properly before hand and got one of these.
What I like about this product is that the instruction manual was easy to follow which i often find isn't teh case with electrical goods but this one was for once. It's a very easy machine to use.
What I don't like is the fact it is fairly flimsy- the lid sometimes doesn't fit properly and you have to jiggle it around to get it to clip down. Also there is no way of knowing how long ago since opening the lid which I think there should be as this effects teh cleanliness of the bottles inside.
I don't think I would recommend this one to you mainly because for £35 you could get a faster one and one which actually does what it is meant to do.
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steriliser like this is a true godsend. With room for up to 6 standard neck or 5 Closer To Nature bottles plus accessories, this device needs just a 5-minute cyc...
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Nov 5th, 2009
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