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Sanitizing bottles in dishwasher...help me think of something

katea81katea81 member
in February 2012 Moms

A few months ago, like a moron, I gave away our dishwasher baskets that I could wash bottle parts in. I always wash by hand so I never thought I'd use it and it was just taking up space. Stupid me. 

Now that Mikey has been sick I really need to run all his spoons, bottles, bowls, etc in the dishwasher on the sanitize setting and I don't know where to put all the bottle parts so they don't get lost or eaten by the dishwasher. Any advice? 

I was thinking of using the metal colander on the top shelf and keeping all the parts in there? What do you think?

 

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Re: Sanitizing bottles in dishwasher...help me think of something

  • ssimon621ssimon621 member

    You can just boil everything, it's the same concept.  Also, Medela makes steam bags for sanitizing. 

    I've never washed any of DD's things in the dishwasher so I can't help with that.

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  • lancyjolancyjo member
    imagessimon621:

    You can just boil everything, it's the same concept.  Also, Medela makes steam bags for sanitizing. 

    I've never washed any of DD's things in the dishwasher so I can't help with that.

    This is what I'd do.

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  • megahofmegahof member
    imagelancyjo:
    imagessimon621:

    You can just boil everything, it's the same concept.  Also, Medela makes steam bags for sanitizing. 


    I've never washed any of DD's things in the dishwasher so I can't help with that.



    This is what I'd do.


    Agreed. We don't have a dishwasher so I just boil everything.
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  • jmccall79jmccall79 member
    If my dishwasher basket gets full, I just put all the little parts in the silverware basket. We've not had any issues with things coming out. And I just put the bottles on the top rack like I do other cups.  I only use the basket for bottle parts...I always put his spoons in the silverware basket.

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  • naturegal79naturegal79

    Something I read before... we don't sanitize any of Reece's bottles, only when he was a newborn. We just use soap and water.

    https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/should-you-sterilize-your-babys-bottles

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  • nattyknattyk member

    We put everything in the dishwasher and run it every night.  This has saved my sanity, because all I need to wash by hand now are my pump parts.  We put the bottles, nipples and clear caps that go over the nipples on the top rack just like we do for the glasses.  They go onto the little "pegs".  They usually all stay on through the whole cycle. Every once in a while a nipple or cap will fall of the peg, but they always stay on the top rack and dont fall through to the bottom.  The yellow caps (medela bottles) go in the silverware basket on the bottom. 

     I handwash his spoons.  We had one fall out of the top rack and melt on the heating element, so they dont go in anymore.

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