Philips Avent SCF365 Premium Bottle Warmer

I use this feed our little one during the day and at night while the wife's asleep. I just had to top off the water when it's evaporated a bit, and cleaned it once in a while. There are 3 bottle temperature settings, supposedly corresponding to fresh breast milk temperature, a tad warner, and a tad cooler. I've never used the highest setting as the lowest seems warm enough to me. It seems to heat up 6 ounces fairly quickly, about 5 minutes (when taken from the fridge), nothing near the 10 minutes I was expecting. It will automatically turn off 20 minutes after bottle is heated. It fits our Munchkin Latch and Philips AVENT bottles just fine. Unless you have fat bottles, and you'll know if they're fat, then this will fit yours too. For proper and even heating, you'll want to make sure the water level reaches the same level as the milk in the bottle when placed inside. The warmer is a little short though: the top of the warmer only reaches about the 6oz level of my 8oz bottles. All the complaints on here are by people who are more interested in convenience than the quality of breast milk for their babies. Seriously, folks, if you want one that heats up in 3 minutes instead of 10, Philips has another version you can buy. 10 minutes may actually be more than enough to heat up every bottle we use (we just take the bottle out early sometimes), but 10 minutes ensures a safe heating speed, as heating too quickly (or too hot) will denature the nutrients in the milk, and your baby may as well drink water. Putting your bottle in a warm glass is not perfect because the water in the glass cools as heat is transferred, while the warmer continually heats to ensure that the water reaches the correct end temperature. With a warm glass, you might be tempted to overcompensate the cooling water by using water too warm, and that will denature the nutrients in the milk, or so says biology. And according to physics, if you want perfect temperature, the water level must be the same, so that's why. A little less or more is okay, the warmer will still work, I promise. No need to begrudgingly get it just right and give this a bad review, guys. I don't always refill the water to the right level and it's warm enough for our little one. And finally, the good reason why there's not a timer is because your milk will warm up at different speeds depending on how cold it is to begin with, and the volume of milk to be cooled. Don't take my word for it, ask physics. You want the milk to heat up to the temperature you set the warmer to, don't you? However, there is a visual indicator that lets you know the milk is warm, though our little one will accept it a little earlier than that, which is nice for us when he's waiting. The visual indicator lights up in 3 different phases, which I've noticed takes a different amount of time to light up with different bottles, so I'm guessing this is how the warmer knows how warm the milk is (assuming a mostly cylindrical bottle shape): if the water level is the same level as the milk, then it can measure over time the water temperature change, and therefore how much warmer it needs to heat up to reach the end temperature, and also how much longer to heat up. One special note: the warmer does not know how cold your milk is (ikr?), it can only deduce based on the temperature of the basin and the water in it, as I mentioned above. That means if you plan on heating multiple bottles in rapid succession, the warmer will seem to finish early and subsequent bottles will still be cold because the water in the basin is still warm, obviously, and the warmer will think the bottle is already warmed. You'll need to wait for the water and basin to cool down (just like using a toaster). It works great when used correctly. After just a few weeks, not expecting the water had been dumped out by my wife, who doesn't even use it, I turned it on one night without checking if there was still water in it, and the plastic base inside melted. Now it no longer heats up; we bought a second one because we like using it so much. I have a photo of what it should look like in the new one, and one of the melted base in the old one. I wish it protected itself better from idiot users like me who didn't always check the water level. I won't make that mistake again. Now at six months, my little one still won't take room temperature milk sometimes, so the warmer still comes in handy.

I have to say, I bought this product despite other people not like it all that much. It has been the perfect warmer for our household. Everyone gets upset that it takes 9 minutes to warm something, instead of like 5 minutes for "fast" warmers. It does not matter to my son. He is not an extremely fussy baby and as long as you are holding him, he doesn't mind waiting a couple extra minutes for the bottle to finish warming. Usually by the time we get the diaper changed, etc, the bottle is almost ready. What I do really like about this is that it holds the temperature for 20 minutes after warming, and you never have to worry about it getting too hot if you don't take it out right away. It holds big and wide bottles, but the downside to me is that it really tops out at about 6 ounces of warming. I wish it was more like 8-10 ounces that it could handle, but because you put the same amount of water in it as is in the bottle, then it can't do a full 8 ounce bottle. So far we have used this for 7 months with no issues. Only other small downside is that once you warm a bottle, it takes awhile to reset itself so you can warm another one. Sometimes even if you rinse it with cold water, unplug it, reset it, sometimes it takes 10-15 minutes to allow it to reset, otherwise it will turn on and be on the keep warm setting, rather than heating the bottle. But if you are looking for a bottle warmer to be fast, this is not what you are looking for.

Works pretty well however a huge pain is that if you need to reheat another bottle soon after the first it won't kick on the heater, even after changing out the water like the instructions say. So for warming up one bottle at a time every few hours 5/5 stars... but for heating up more than one bottle in succession 1/5 stars. Averaged to 3/5. All in all I'd probably end up going with another brand next time. UPDATE: Product ended up failing to heat at all despite the indicator saying it was. Called Philips support and they shipped out a new one. Even the new one refuses to heat up if you've used it any time in the last few hours, so this appears to be an intentionally designed behavior and not a bug. Terrible product, am purchasing a different brand to replace. Stay away!

One weekend my wife had to go out of town when the baby was like 3 months old, still nursing. So instead of the super convenient middle of the night mom-nurses-baby method, I had to warm up bottles. Simple enough. But how it worked in real life was, the little man woke up starving and screaming, and I had to be like, "Good morning, child. I understand you're quite hungry. I have milk for you, if you can just wait about 20 minutes for me to warm it up...what's that?" [Baby screams for 20 minutes.] This thing is moderately reliable but it takes forever (feels like forever anyway). I ended up just sitting a bottle in a bowl of hot water and that method was way way faster. Epilogue to the wife is out of town weekend: For the benefit of new dads reading this, I want you to know this. I was nervous about going solo for a weekend with a new baby. Very nervous. But I wanted to be the kind of dad who could do that like it was no problem. The only way you can become that kind of dad is to fake it 'til you make it. Just get in there. You don't have to be perfect, you just have to be there and keep trying. The goal is not perfection, the goal is not to quit and to try to get better. You can do it.

We love this bottle bottle warmer. The only reason that I’m not giving it a 5 Star is because it takes longer to warm up our bottles than advertised. It takes about 15 minutes, and when I have a fussy baby who is hungry, I don’t have 15 minutes. I only use it when he seems to have trouble falling asleep. Sometimes a warm bottle of milk does it. But other than that it just sits in our cabinet.

This is a great bottle warmer - better than any of the other units for sale on Amazon... This unit has a setting for frozen / heat 1 / heat 2 / heat 3 Frozen setting will simply bring the milk to a liquid state but still cold - you need to defrost the milk on this setting, then set it to the normal heat setting to warm the milk to body temp. It takes about 20 min to heat a frozen bottle to body temp. I've read a few reviews on this unit and i think a couple people need to go back to the manual and give it a read.... This unit DOES have an automatic shut off! The unit works like this. Heat 1 - slightly below body temp Heat 2 - body temp (98.6) Heat 3 - slightly above body temp You set the temp that you want, poor water in the unit - matching the milk level in the bottle, and turn the unit on. The unit will warm up, with the light on the front showing you the progress. Once the milk is at the temp you selected, the light indicator will be full (no flashing) and the unit will continue to run for 20 min - maintaining the current temp. It does NOT overheat the milk... It simply holds that temp for 20 min than shuts off. This unit has sensors in it and does not rely on timers - like every other bottle warmer on Amazon. Having a unit with sensors was very important for us since we can put the milk in the warmer and go do something else - without worrying about the milk getting too hot or if the milk will be too cold because the 'timer' ran out too soon etc... This is a great unit and well worth the money!

First of all, the thing works. Our baby only needs the cold edge taken off her milk, so even though the box says it takes ten minutes to warm, we often pull the bottle in half the time. Warm enough. I also like the simplicity of this warmer. It's literally a dial and a button. Pour in some water. No pieces that can break, nothing to wash or clean, no extra parts. This simplicity is much appreciated at 3am, when I can just roll over and punch the button without actually getting up. Part of its simplicity is its size. We only use one warmer, and it's small enough to easily carry from the kitchen to the bedroom nightstand, and it even fits in our baby diaper bag/backpack so we can bring it with us when visiting family. The one feature I wish it had is a measuring line inside the rim to make measuring the water easier. All things considered, this warmer has worked out perfectly for us.

It came with stains, seems like it was not new as advertised... Also, despite using recommended amount of water and their own brand of baby bottles, it was not capable of un-freezing milk, and the "safety" feature that prevented it from engaging the heater immediately after the previous cycle ended made it a show-stopper for a hungry baby crying in the morning wanting its milk. Ended up using a normal stove and a pot to heat water and then the milk. Maybe not at tech-savvy and nutrient saving as this product but baby's tummy was full and parent's sleep assured quickly and hassle free.