Tommee Tippee Perfect Prep Machine, Black

Easy to use and a great time saver. Bottle made in 2 mins, so much easier than waiting for a kettle to boil put a bottle in and waiting for the milk to worm up then having to make sure its not still cold or to hot.

This has been one of the best investments! Having read some of the negative reviews especially around impact on the baby I was a bit worried however still decided to give it a go and it was the best decision. The milk is ready in 2 minutes. No more screaming hungry baby waiting for milk to be prepped and cooled down. Highly recommend it as it will save you time, hassle and baby tears!

So much easier making bottles fast. Not messing around 2 mins to make. Loud beep though no volume button. Very easy setup and clean. Can’t make under 4oz bottles sadly but lucky our little one is just getting to that amount per feed. Great product and less stress.

This product single-handedly saved my life.
Have you ever been so tired you’re unable to count to 5?? That’s life with a poor sleeping newborn…. its horrible. The only thing in the house which wasn’t an emotional wreck was this thing.
Spin the top dial, press go. It’s that easy.
Even as a sleep deprived father, I was able to successfully operate this piece of equipment without injuring or poisoning anyone on multiple occasions throughout both day and night.
It’s a bit of a pig to clean thoroughly but mainly due to it being quite slow to pull through a large volume of water. That being said, it was still easy enough and could be descaled and sterilised within an hour.
If you respect your sanity…. buy this.

This has changed mine and my husband’s lives in terms of feeding the baby. We feel like an F1 pit crew now when the baby is kicking off in the middle of the night. I can have a bottle ready before he’s even finished changing the nappy!

Spend the money on this and it will save you from getting a divorce!

Can’t begin to explain how great having a prep machine is.

When it’s 2 am and our little one is letting us know he is hungry this machine is a life saver as a bottle can be ready in no time and is so simple to use!

Once to the the required ounces the prep machine does the rest with a hot shot and cool water to the exact measurements needed.

The machine is very aware of what it needs in terms of it is overheating if it’s a hot day, when the water level is getting low or when the filters needs changing it has warning lights for all these things so never left guessing!

Couldn’t imagine not having one!

I love this machine. Easy to clean easy to use. But its soooo loud. Its just unnecessary. And also it starts at 4oz. Which is a shame because you can’t use it when your baby is tiny unless you’re happy to waste formula. Otherwise I love it and glad I purchased it. Makes a bottle in 1 minute at perfect temperature.

We moved our baby to a combination of bottle and breast feeding and found the process of boiling the kettle, making up formula, waiting for it to cool down enough to give just too long!
I know in reality, it was probably 5 minutes in total but at 2am with a screaming baby, every second counts.

After reading reviews on Amazon and generally online I came across the Perfect Prep machine and it looked like a revelation.

We live in a very hard water area so we were concerned about the water but the Perfect Prep machine has a built in water filter so that meant we can fill the reservoir from the tap rather than from the filtered water we keep in the fridge for us to drink.

It’s a complete doddle to set up – you have to soak the filter before inserting but the in box instructions take you through everything clearly and step by step. Once set up it tucks nicely into a corner of the kitchen and doesn’t look like an eyesore (we got the black as it fits with our decor and existing appliances)
You use the dial on top to select the ounces you require. Put the sterilised bottle underneath (We use both Tommee Tippee and Avent ones with no problems) Push the big button and the ring goes red. It will dispense a ‘hot shot’ of water into the bottle then beep to alert you. You then need to remove the bottle and add the required formula (we use Aptamil and it mixes fine).
It says to put a lid on and shake the bottle but I have found a quick circle one way then the other a few times mixes the formula just fine.
Then place the bottle back on the stand and press the button again. The light will go green and the bottle will then be filled up to the correct amount with cooler water to bring the whole bottle to the correct temperature.
Once filled it beeps to alert you it’s finished and you can add the sterilised top and teat and give to your baby straight away (I usually give it another swirl to make sure it’s all mixed (One for good luck and all that!)

The whole process takes just a couple of minutes which means you can quickly get back to your hungry baby.

As I said before, we use in combination with Aptimil Formula Aptamil First Infant Milk 1 From Birth, 900g
Tommee Tippee bottles Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Feeding Bottles – Pack of 6
Avent bottles Philips AVENT Natural Newborn Starter Set SCD290/01
and the Tommee Tipee Microwave Steriliser Tommee Tippee Essentials Microwave Steriliser (Just make sure your microwave is big enough to fit this in as it’s quite large)

We have yet to change the filter but have only been using it for 2 months so I will update the review when that needs changing.

Overall

Yes it’s 60 for something which you do not TECHNICALLY need but for speed, efficiency and dare I say my sanity, I think it’s the best 60 i’ve ever spent.

The days of messing about making the babies milk is well and truly over now, what a brilliant product this is. No one likes their baby screaming for it’s milk while your fumbling about trying to cool milk that’s too hot or warming one thats too cold, so this product at a touch of a button (Well two touches actually) is an absolute miracle of an invention! We can now get a perfect bottle of body temperature babies milk to baby in the fastest time possible, ensuring less stress on a tired family and less stress for baby.

The machine has a water filter internally which has to be changed every 3 months, it’s easy to change and even tells you that it needs changing by the way of a warning light on the machine itself. You then fill the tank with cold water and it holds a decent amount of water with a visible water level on the front so you know when to add more water. You then place your bottle under the spout, select the amount of milk required and press the button once. The machine then dispenses a small amount of hot/boiling water into the bottle, you then remove the bottle and have 2 minutes to add the milk formula then shake it to mix it into the small amount of water, you replace the bottle under the spout and press the button one more time and it dispenses the last of the water to take it up to your required amount, this ranges from 4oz all the way up to 11oz’s. So enough for most babies until they are in the weening stage. You then remove the bottle, screw on the cap and shake once more and there you have it, perfectly prepped milk for baby in a fraction of the time it takes to do it manually.

Our household would recommend this to any family as it takes away so much stress and worry that you’ve left the milk too hot or too cold etc, it’s a godsend of a product and one that we won’t ever be without as long as we have bottle feeding babies in the house.

We breastfeed our baby, she is 3 weeks old, but like most, we find she needs to be supplemented with formula because she cluster feeds and comfort feeds.
I brought this item per a work colleague’s recommendation, but knowing we were planning to breastfeed I didn’t expect to be using it.

Finally, two days ago, we started to use it.
Set up is slow. First you have to fill the reservoir, sans filter, with cold water and do a cleaning cycle, which can take up to ten minutes. It didn’t seem to take anywhere near that time but I was otherwise engaged with cleaning and sanitising bottles. Then you have to submerge the filter in water until it stops releasing bubbles, and then fit the filter. What took the longest time was once the filter was in place, filling the machine up with water, because it drips through the filter slowly. You fill the reservoir with ordinary, cold, tap water.

Once this was done and our “filter timer” was reset, it was ready for use, and I admit I was a little excited to do so, I love gadgets and this was a new gadget. It is really easy to use.
You place a bottle under the spout and having pre-selected what amount of formula you want to make up on the dial (you can choose 4fl.oz to 11fl.oz) you press the big power button and a red light starts flashing whilst a “hot shot” of hot water is dispensed. Once this is done, the flashing stops, the machine beeps and you have two minutes to complete the next step, that being adding and dissolving the formula powder. If you do not complete the next step within two minutes, the machine beeps to tell you to discard the formula solution you just made, I guess this is to ensure that the formula is completely sanitized by the hot water and the child is not exposed to any harmful bacteria.

You add your scoops, pop on a lid (one is included, along with a 150ml bottle), and shake the solution until the powder is dissolved. You then remove the lid and place the bottle under the spout again to be topped up with cold water. Essentially the same as the “hot shot” except this time the water is cold and the light is green. Voila! A perfect temperature bottle all ready in less than 2 minutes. Tommee Tippee recommend you always test the temperature of the liquid on a sensitive part of skin to make sure it is the perfect temperature, but I’ve yet to have one too hot or too cold.

The machine does seem to make a little over the specified amount. It seems that although the selection dial is in fluid ounces, the machine actually works in millilitres, as 1fl.oz = 30ml, and on the bottles, the fl.oz markers are just below the ml markers. So don’t worry. It does seem that the machine makes 4.5fl.oz when you ask for 4fl.oz, but this is because of the markings on the bottle, if you look closely you will see that, in this case, the fluid actually sits perfectly at the 120ml marker, so you are given 4fl.oz when you ask for 4fl.oz.

The drip tray is adjustable to four different positions, to fit any and all bottles, not just Tommee Tippee. They do recommend that you have the neck of the bottle as close to the spout as possible, so keep that in mind. The tray is held by hooks and is extremely easy to remove and reattach at an alternative height as and when needed.

The machine, itself, is fairly light and compact, so it won’t take up much room. It has a smaller footprint than our Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Electric Steriliser Kit , and is probably about as heavy, if not a few grams more. There are little rubber feet on the bottom to stop the machine slipping.

I would, by no means, recommend anyone pay the 119.99 RRP for this product, I got it for 60 back in August 2015, and that is the most I’d happily pay for it. It is a brilliant piece of kit, and what it does, it does brilliantly, even if it is just boil and measure water, but I don’t think that is worth 120.

The machine also tells you when it needs descaling, but I have yet to get to that point as it’s only two days since it was first taken out of the box.

Always make sure to top up the machine with cold water, as anything over 25C causes a “reservoir temperature” light to illuminate and the machine will not operate until the reservoir has cooled. I assume this is because the machine has no method of cooling water down, and it is the adding of cooler water that makes sure your bottle comes out at the perfect temperature. During the cleaning cycle you are asked to put a litre of boiling water in the machine and ensure the light illuminates.

I hesitated – would this be another useless gadget? I was wrong to do so – it is utterly brilliant. There is simply no justification for messing around with kettles and preparing milk in advance.

I bought this for about 65. It seems to be one of those products that is always the sale price *somewhere* so look around if Amazon put the price back up to 100, and snap it up now if the price is lower. To be honest it is overpriced at 100 and about right at 65 – but for the level of convenience it offers it is worth far more to me than either of those prices.

There is some confusion about the measurements this uses. I measured the output on mine and it uses UK fl oz – which is consistent with what TT have said. The ‘problem’ is that the scoops provided in e.g. Aptamil formula boxes are designed to be used with US measurements of water, so the “5” setting on this machine doesn’t correspond to the right amount of water for 5 scoops of most formulas. This is quite annoying and short of working out what the correct weight (not volume – the design of the scoops accounts for a certain amount of compression during scooping) of formula would be and measuring out that instead, there is no real way to fix it.

HOWEVER, when you actually look at the error due to the US/UK measurements then it is only about 4%. In the context of other errors in the process of preparing milk (e.g. errors when you measure out the scoop, the tolerance in the amount of water that the TT machine dispenses, etc.) this 4% is pretty insignificant. For example, I use one of those 3-chamber milk pots and always end up with a tiny bit of powder stuck in it that doesn’t go into the bottle – I figure that’s about equivalent to the extra formula that I’m adding due to the US/UK measurements issue so it works out in the end.

Conclusion: the measurements are slightly out of line with the scoop sizes on some/most formula boxes. However, the difference is so small it makes no difference in the end.

I have two older children, aged 10 and 8, so a fair gap between them and my new baby.
When we found out we were pregnant this time we visited Toys R Us and were given the sales pitch on this by a member of staff. It sounded brilliant, but we were wary that it was an unnecessary expense, given that it’s not absolutely essential, I managed twice already without it and I was planning to breast feed this time, so figured I wouldn;t really have much use for it.

But I couldn’t let it go and finally convinced the other half to invest in one. I breastfed my daughter for 6 weeks and was happy with that, she’s 7 weeks old now and we’ve been using the machine pretty much exclusively for her feeds for the last week.
I do love this machine, it’s so simple to use, so easy and convenient, it makes the night time feeds a whole lot less stressful; not having to listen to baby scream for 10 minutes whilst making up and then cooling a bottle etc.. At the moment we’re only on 4oz bottles and they take less than a minute to prepare. Larger bottles will of course take longer, but still nothing in comparison to ‘old style’ preparation!

I do have a couple of small issues with the machine, not enough to give me cause to stop using it, but little niggles that prevent me rating it 5*.
Firstly, the machine makes a horrible, horrible claxon sound that is just too loud. I don’t understand why it needs to be so loud. We originally placed the machine in our bedroom, so that I could make the night feeds without having to go downstairs, but the sound that it makes is just too loud. It wakes my partner and so we couldn’t keep it in the same room as anyone sleeping. Another small issue is the light on the machine. The large power button lights up red and flashes bright green during preparation, which is really distracting and annoying and again, a reason the machine can’t really be kept in a room with sleeping people.
These are, like I said, just small issues that I can live with, but I do think it’s fair to mention them.

Also, some have said the machine can be inaccurate regarding the amounts of water it dispenses, and the reviewer who has replied saying this is untrue and that they are mistakenly counting the increased volume due to powder, I suppose both could be right, but in my experience the machine DOES occasionally not give the correct amount of water. This is not to the degree of 2 oz extra or missing, and I don’t think the difference will cause any problems for baby (mine seems happy) but after reading the reviews I tested the machine myself by running a few water only bottles (so yes, water + powder = increased overall volume, but no, I’m not an idiot, water on it’s own gives me the right to leave this review and be confident it’s accurate). I found that running a 4oz just water bottle would more often than not come out at around 4.5oz, though, sometimes it hits bang on the oz mark and it can be anywhere inbetween.

When I take baby out of the house I take a bottle of boiled water in her bag, along with a sterilised tub of powder that I can just pour in and make up as and when needed, so I do not use the machine at all for this.

To make my night time feed prep quicker and easier for me, I also keep tubs of pre measured powder in sterilised tubs beside the machine, along with my little lineup of sterilised bottles.

I’ve had none of the issues that some other reviewers have mentioned with the machine not working, mine seems to operate fine. When we set it up we ran the clean cycle, which took a little while, at first we thought it was broken, as one of the lights took forever to go off! When it was ready we were very pleased with it. The machine has saved me a lot of time, it makes bottles at a temperature that my baby accepts with no issue or arguement, and despite it being noisy and annoying with alarms and flashing lights, I wouldn’t be without it now.
I would recommend this product, though I would advise you run a few water only bottles yourself to double check that it’s giving correct amounts. Despite one reviewer stating that it’s not an issue, it IS.

Bought this on a whim and I am trying hard to love it BUT it falls short. Firstly the beeping is incredibly loud. What deranged engineer thought it would be OK to have such loud beeping TWICE in the feed making cycle is beyond me. Obviously they do not understand that one of the fundamental principles of night feeding is that the baby does not really wake up. Let alone the neighbours in the flat upstairs. This is a glaring mistake.
Secondly the other thing that annoys me is that there is all of this blurb about supporting mothers who are combination feeding but this machine will only do luke warm bottles. What I want is the option to make it a little warmer so that I can take it to bed and know that it will not be stone cold by the time I am ready to top up with a bottle. Indeed there often times that I want the bottle a little hotter. For instance when we pop to bed for a little book reading before a last feed or when we are jumping in the car and I know that she will be hungry at the destination in 30 mins time. Please put a “make it hotter” button on the machine.
Finally on the negatives I thought that it would dispense the powder too. It doesn’t. I just make up little shot bottle of powder but it would be ideal if somehow it dispensed powder or someone came up with a clever way to dispense powder.
On the positives. The dial on the top of the machine is intuitive and easy to use. Easy to fill with water. It’s not too big on the worktop. It measures the water exactly which just takes the fuss out of the bottle making even in the dark. It looks nice.. I like the light which glows from red to green. The over flow tray which is height adjustable is a thoughtful addition. The filter is easy to change. The cleaning cycle is easy. Bottles are part of my life for sometime to come.. Tommee Tippee – fix the problems above and this is definitely something I could love.