If you’re looking at reviews of a bottle warmer, you already have a good idea of what you’re looking for. So forgoing the intro and basic info, I’m going to go straight into the pros and cons of this unit, starting with the cons.Cons:The quick warm function is a nightmare to deal with, and functionally useless for a bottle. Quick warm uses steam from a small amount of boiling water to quickly heat a bottle. Right off the bat, it can’t be used for breast milk as it is too hot. It’s intended for use with formula or baby food, however there are several huge issues if you try. First, there is no knob or anything to open the lid. When you try to use the lip on the front of the lid, steam shoots out and instantly burns your hand. There should be something sticking out from the side so you arent hinging into the path of the steam. Lifting the bottle out with the basket is a second round of burns because the basket also has no handle, so you have to put your fingers inside the heater and in the path of the steam to grab the basket. Once you do slam this thing into a wall to get the bottle out, you now have a piping hot bottle. Not a terrible problem as a plastic bottle quickly cools as the heat transfers to the milk. Only problem the thick plastic ring of the bottle cap doesn’t cool down. So now you have a steaming hot ring of plastic pushed into your babies face as you feed them. Unless you wait several minutes for it to cool, which defeats its entire premise. So the quick warm function is utterly useless AND horribly designed.Problem 2: There is no temp sensor for the water. So there is no adjustment to the time based on the water temp. If you use the required room temp water, not a problem, everything works flawlessly. However, if you heat 1 bottle, feed, and go to heat a second, the water is now still warm, so the second bottle comes out overheated. So this is only good for making single bottles, or you have to dump the water between each one, which on this unit is a bit more of a pain than most other brands.Now onto the pros:The simplicity, yet adjustability for bottle size, of the interface is fantastic. Couldn’t ask for a better user interface, which was the main selling point for me. No guessing how long to keep the bottle in, or deal with a painfully slow warm up.If you input everything correctly – milk volume and room temp water, the bottle comes out the perfect temp both for quick warm and steady warm.This unit would be absolutely perfect with only a few changes. Make the steady warm function the “quick warm”, and make the quick warm function a slow warm for heating breast milk slower. Then just add a temp sensor so the time can be adjusted automatically based on the starting temp. Make those 2 changes, and this would be a home run product.
