This baby bottle steriliser and dryer is chemical-free and sterilises your bottles and baby feeding accessories using 100% natural steam and therefore leaves no nasty residue. This also means any condensation will drip back into the unit rather than making a mess for you to clear up. Once you’ve put the correct amount of water in the base, it’s simply a matter of putting on the lid and pressing the ‘play’ button – it could easily be done at night or one-handed with a baby on the hip. You can remove the teats with the teat tongs and then use the screw ring to re-assemble with the bottle. Maisie didn’t descale herself during the test, but for more information about how and when to descale, see our best sterilisers page.

You could use a specially designed descaling product which is suitable for an electric steam steriliser or you could use white vinegar (ideally not the stuff you use on your chips!Steam gets into all those hard-to-reach places, so you can rest assured that it sterilises every surface, killing viruses* and 99. This is important to do after each wash/ sterilising cycle, to avoid the risk of burning your little ones mouth.

Tommee Tippee have put a great deal of thought into the redesign of their bestselling electric steam steriliser and it really shows. If you notice a dark brown appearance, this is likely to be burnt on limescale which means you may need to descale the machine over a longer period e. of germs and harmful bacteria which may linger in bottles, teats, breast pumps and other accessories.The cycle takes only five minutes – shorter than any other electric steriliser we tested, such as the Dr Brown's Deluxe Bottle Steriliser, and plenty of microwave ones too. There’s a ‘stop’ button too, in case you need to stop the steriliser mid-cycle (though the instructions remind you that, if so, the contents aren’t properly sterilised). uk/browse/baby-and-nursery/feeding-and-weaning/bottle-sterilisers/c:29074/brands:tommee-tippee/" on this server.