Do babies steam sterilers use lots of electric?

Queenie

black-saturn wrote:

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A friend of mine used hers to cook fish though when she had finished using it to sterilise bottles.

Really? Wow, good tip!! :T

pinkparrott

Hi my baby is 7 1/2 months so am only using it now to sterilise his bottles and spouts and spoons. As you only put a very small amount of water in i think that it will be the smae as boiling this amount of water,
thanks for the suggestions, I will now only use it once a day max, as will fill it up to the max.
thanks again.

Sultana

My steam sterilizer is rated at 390W and takes 10 minutes per cycle.....Does sums....that's about 0.6p per cycle. The effect on your electricity bill is negligible.

It's been a while since I was sterilizing bottles but my recollection is that if you use sterilizing solution you are supposed to rinse the solution off the bottles with cooled boiled water which needs yet more electricity.....

BexTech

Sultana wrote:

My steam sterilizer is rated at 390W and takes 10 minutes per cycle.....Does sums....that's about 0.6p per cycle. The effect on your electricity bill is negligible.

It's been a while since I was sterilizing bottles but my recollection is that if you use sterilizing solution you are supposed to rinse the solution off the bottles with cooled boiled water which needs yet more electricity.....

Really, strange that, when I boil my kettle, it uses no electricity.

angeluk69_2

black-saturn wrote:

The good thing about cold sterilising is that as long as the items are left in the solution they are still sterile. With the steam steriliser they only stay sterile for a few hours.

A friend of mine used hers to cook fish though when she had finished using it to sterilise bottles.

Not actually correct, the bottles are sterile until the unit is opened.

For cold sterilising you would need 1 bucket, 1 pack of tabs (approx 60p for 30) and water. Make up solution according to instructions and it can be used for up to 24hrs and the bottles can be left in there till you need them and they are still sterile.

As for cooking fishing in a baby's steriliser, surely thats unhygienic in itself.

Zoe_2-2

angeluk69 wrote:

Not actually correct, the bottles are sterile until the unit is opened.

Black-saturn is right. With most steam sterilisers bottles remain sterile for 3 hours.

black-saturn

angeluk69 wrote:

As for cooking fishing in a baby's steriliser, surely thats unhygienic in itself.

I suppose it is but I meant that she didn't need it for the baby any more.

angeluk69_2

Zoe wrote:

Black-saturn is right. With most steam sterilisers bottles remain sterile for 3 hours.

Or until the unit is opened, whichever is sooner

Zoe_2-2

angeluk69 wrote:

Or until the unit is opened, whichever is sooner

It's actually 3 hours whether the unit has been opened or not. Not going to get in to an argument over it though

masonic

Zoe wrote:

It's actually 3 hours whether the unit has been opened or not. Not going to get in to an argument over it though

Not if you breathe in their general vicinity after you open the unit.