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| Avent 3-in-1 Electric Sterilizer |
Most of us using baby
bottle sterilizers have faced the problem of deposits on the heating element.
The deposits may range from light cream in color to black spots. If left
uncleaned for long these deposits can cause sterilizer to emit a smell into the
bottles and may even make your baby reject the bottle. Also not much
information is available for this important part of using an electric
sterilizer. Let's take a look at reasons
for the deposits and how to clean them:
Poor water quality
Use only drinking water while sterilizing baby bottles. As regular tap water may be hard and thus leave calcium and magnesium deposits. These deposits are generally white in color and particularly hard to remove.
Insufficient quantity of water used
Put the exact measured quantity of water on the heating element. Less than required quantity would mean that water will evaporate prematurely during the sterilization cycle leaving the element burning. This would lead to deposits that are black in color and seem to be a nasty thing to have on equipment meant to sterilize the baby bottles.
One more thing to note is,
even if you are putting in the right quantity of water, if your sterilizer is
not leveled, it would lead to burning up of one side(higher side) of the
element as the water will go down towards the side at a lower level.
See for yourself:
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| Element Before Cleaning |
I realized the problem of improperly leveled table when I found the element burnt up from one side while the other
side just had hard water deposits.
Cleaning the sterilizer element
Now to clean the
sterilizers element put a mixture of vinegar and water 1:3 proportion in the
sterilizer and leave it for at least 15 minutes. This should loosen up the
deposits and then can be removed by rubbing with a rough cloth. It would take
some time as the deposits are stuck firm to the element but 30 minutes of
hardwork and you would have a clean sterilizer ready to take on the bottles of
the world:
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| Element After Cleaning |
Such cleaning needs to be
done every 4 weeks or whenever you find deposits on the element.
Happy Parenting :)
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