When the boys were little, we fed the boys formula. We made these bottles in advance, about 24 at a time. The boys were eating 1 bottle every three hours. For a while we were using the single bottle warmer. You would put in some water, wait for it to warm up and then wait another 4 minutes for the formula to warm up enough to serve. The whole process for one bottle was about 6 minutes. When we had to warm up 3 bottles, it would take us about 15 minutes. This was way too long to wait with screaming babies. There had to be a better way.
One day, I was looking at the bottle warmer, which around here cost about $30, and realized that it looked like a mini crock pot. So off the the store I went and purchased a small crock pot for about $12 dollars. We filled it with warm water and left the setting on warm. We left the crock pot on all the time so that the water never had to warm up, it was always the perfect temperature. We would put all 3 bottles in at the same time for about 4 minutes. When the water level got lower in the crock pot, we just simple put more warm water in. We had to do this about once a day. We ran that crock pot in our house for at least a year which I'm sure is some kind of world record. If fact, we had to replace it once as it burned out after about 10 months.
The savings on time was totally worth burning through the crock pot. It always made the bottle the perfect temperature and was great on heating either one, two or all three bottles depending on who needed to eat.
I hope that you find this helpful. Happy Bottle feeding.
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