Do you wash bottles in the dishwasher?

...And if so, is it enough??

I argue with DH about this a little; I didn't grow up with a dishwasher and am always a little suspicious of how clean it gets things. He thinks the water is hotter than you'd use by hand, so more sanitary.

What do you think?

 

...And if so, is it enough??

I argue with DH about this a little; I didn't grow up with a dishwasher and am always a little suspicious of how clean it gets things. He thinks the water is hotter than you'd use by hand, so more sanitary.

What do you think?

 

I clean my bottles with the dishwasher. And your dh is right about the water. It is so hot that one day my 10 yo thought he could help out and opened the dishwasher after the clean light went on and he burned his fingers on a plate. The heat kills any and all germs.

 

I put them in every once in a while to really get them sterlized. My dishwasher isn't too great so hand washing is probably fine.

 

I agree with your DH on this one - our pedi recommended the dishwasher because the water gets very hot and does a better job of sanitizing the bottles. In my experience, a good dishwasher gets the bottles much cleaner than we can do by hand. If you read the attached child food safety website, they actually recommend boiling the bottles after hand washing to sanitize them or use a dishwasher.

http://www.childcarefoodsafety.com/faq.html

 

When my DD's first came home we hand washed them. But after a while we noticed a "film" developing on them so we then started putting them in the dishwasher. It gets so hot that it sterilizes them. We use the Dr Brown bottles and it was horrible having to handwash those!

 

I always use the dishwasher. I would think the water could get much hotter in the dishwasher, therefore doing a better job of sterilizing.

 

Yep, yep, yep!!!! Dishwasher all the way!!!! I can't imagine hand washing the bottles and I only use those bottles to store breast milk and Playtex disposables to feed. I HATE washing dishes!!! I would rather clean the toilet!

 

I never washed mine in the dishwasher. Always soaked them in hot water for an hour and then clean and rinsed.

 

Oh, yeah, the dishwasher is a lot hotter. I have to let the dishes cool before I unload them or they're too hot to touch. Ours also has a button to get it even hotter, if you want. I usually do, when I have the bottles in. Throughout the day, though I usually wash by hand & then do the dishwasher right before bed.

When I had Dr Brown's, though, they always went in the dishwasher. I didn't feel like I could get all those little parts clean enough by hand.

 

I always wash mine in the dishwasher with the settings on hot rinse and heated dry. They come out very clean and sanitized. I asked my pedi about it and she said it was best.

 

I was also told that the dishwasher gets so hot that it sterilizes. I put my bottles in the dishwasher when I can...if I had my choice I would always do them in the dishwasher. But, we don't want to run it 2x a day for bottles when it's not close to full. So, I wash with soap and hot water too. I put the bottles in a plastic bin in the sink with water/soap and kind of let them soak while I wash.

 

Yes, on the "sanitize" cycle.
The nipples did occasionally come out sort of orangeish if we'd eaten something with tomato sauce, but the girls didn't seem to notice.

 

We had the same discussion at our house. We use the dishwasher most of the time. When I don't have a full load and need the bottles I wash them by hand.

 

We use the Dishwasher all the time. I used it with all of my kids. It really gets them clean.

 

Yes, I dishwash my bottles, too! It gets them so much cleaner than when I wash them by hand...I have never been a good housekeeper

 

Yeah, same here. When we were using bottles with my guys and with my first DD, I always put the bottles in the diswasher!

 

You could not pay me enough to wash all those bottles by hand. My dishwasher died one day this summer when we were still doing 15-18 bottles per day (combined, and of course Dr. Brown's so all those damn parts!) and I seriously thought I would shoot myself in the 36 hours we went without it. I cannot fathom doing them by hand if I had a dishwasher available.

 

I must agree with your husband!!! BTW- don't forget to run it (I just read your other post about emptying a dirty dishwasher )

 

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Originally posted by cwinslow7:
I must agree with your husband!!! BTW- don't forget to run it (I just read your other post about emptying a dirty dishwasher )


Hahaha, I know,

I'm having lots of dishwasher problems today! I could write yet another post about how I ran out of detergent and had to ask my MIL to bring over some - a rant about how annoying she can be during one of her MANY visits! lol

 

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Originally posted by Mom2My3Angels:
I always wash mine in the dishwasher with the settings on hot rinse and heated dry. They come out very clean and sanitized. I asked my pedi about it and she said it was best.


be careful with heated dry it will melt Tupperware... so I assume bottles will melt too!! Yes I have melted several things!! I turn the auto dry on my dish washer off... but I dont know about the sanitary benefits of air drying (but air drying is better than towel drying for sanitation reasons)

 

I also put the bottles in the dishwasher and I agree that the water is so much hotter than you could stand washing them by hand.

 

Our Dr. Brown's go in the dishwasher about 2 times each week. I use the "sani-rinse" cycle that gets the water super hot and kills all the icky germs. Otherwise, I hand wash them. I love the smell of original Palmolive, so it's not so bad

 

I just switched to washing them in the dishwasher, and I could kick myself for not switching earlier! Those Dr. Brown bottles are MORE than a pain to hand wash!!! I rinse them out with hot water after use to make sure the chunks of formula and rice come off the all the "guts" of the bottles. We have enough bottles to get thru a day so every night before bed I load the dishwasher with the day's dishes and the bottles and like magic when I wake up the bottles are clean. I recommend the Sassy baskets (they sell them at target and walmart) for all the pieces to the bottles.

 

Just fyi, I use a high-temp heated dry and the bottles parts have not melted or been damaged.

 

I would go NUTS if I didn't use it. Sani-rinse here for our Dr Brown's!