Best bottle warmer?

[elk4baby]

I'm looking for a bottle/food warmer for my LO.

What's the best out there?

Do the bottle warmers work with food containers (when we move on from bottles to weaning foods)? I'd appreciate having the dual function, so it gets used for more than a couple of months.

I don't really want to spend a fortune, as it will only be used occasionally (to warm expressed breastmilk and baby food when we get to weaning).

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I wouldn't splash out on a bottle warmer - a microwave is just as good and so useful once they're on solids. In the early days I just stick the bottle in a jug of boiled water to warm it up.

We've got the Tommee Tippee one and it is great and does bottles and food containers. Only prob is there is no on off switch so you have to contantly plug and unplug it which might be fine, if you are using it on a kitchen worktop etc but we have ours in our bedroom for night feeds and it's a pain as the plug socket is under a dressing table.

Hope this helps.

We use an Avent bottle warmer - works fine for us, it takes about 1 minute per ounce to heat up - only thing is it doesn't have an on/off switch so you need to keep testing it and then switch it off at the wall.

As for heating baby food - do you mean jars? We've never used the bottle warmer to warm food - we use the microwave but we've not used jars so far, we just defrost her small portions of food in the microwave then heat it up.

We got the Avent warmer second hand - you could maybe get one second hand at an NCT sale, kids sale, on Ebay? Or keep an eye out for offers in Boots etc?

PS - we may have an Avent warmer but we use Tommee Tippee bottles. They still fit - you just remove the blue insert, so it takes standard and wide neck bottles.

Not having an on/off switch is rather a pain :(. I'm primarily looking for a warmer to use for nighttime feeds (trying to get DH more involved :)).

Aren't these things supposed to keep the food at the "exactly right" temperature for as long as you need? That'd be ideal really, as I could just leave the bottle warming and then turn the warmer off once the bottle is taken out.

Late to the party here, but the baby brezza bottle and breast milk warmer has been a great find for us. It’s gentle enough for pumped milk but still quick when you just need something warm in a hurry. I started using it for purees and snacks later on, and it’s held up really well. One of those small things that ends up being way more useful than you’d expect.