Bambinoz Bonus pack bottle warmer

I really want to love this product. It's exactly what I'm looking for, as we are often on the go at places like the zoo or ballpark where finding a good heating source for a bottle is very tough. I also found it more convenient when visiting instead of asking the host for a bowl of hot water. Complaints like it takes too long to heat a bottle or having to boil to reset it don't bother me, as my daughter has a routine where I know approximately when she will be hungry, so I just plan ahead when to activate heat. Also, I am pretty organized at home, so boiling to reset the warmer is no problem - I already am boiling water to sanitize bottles and pump parts.I did have problems with it activating for no reason. Sometimes I could explain it to jostling in the soft sided carrying case, but coming in the kitchen in the morning to find it had activated overnight leaves me at a loss. Still not a huge problem as I had bought 2 warmers.However, both of these warmers have sprung a leak. The one appears to have been punctured by the metal disk somehow. The other one I don't know what happened, as the leak is just on the bottom edge.I was pretty careful with these, so it's frustrating to find such a good concept was used only a dozen times or so in the month since I purchased and now is useless. I did temporarily continue to use the one leaking at the bottom and just wrapped some paper towel around it to prevent a big mess and protect the bottle - supposedly the contents are nontoxic, but I'm not taking their word for it when it involves my child.If the warmers had not broken, I would've rated 4 stars. If they also had not randomly activated, I would've given 5 stars.I still love the concept, so I am trying a different brand hoping for more durability.UPDATE: I've downgraded to 2 stars since the handle of the insulator came undone right after I reviewed the product, and the insulator is now inconvenient to use even for other purposes. Obviously this is a low quality product overall. I ordered the Prince Lionheart On-The-Go Bottle Warmer as a replacement and it seems to be better quality.

I ordered this because we were taking our baby on long hikes during winter in the SF Bay Area, and her milk was often too cold by the end of our walks. She would not take it, or the cream would have risen to the top, making it hard to drink from a bottle. The Bambinoz do a nice job of warming milk to a palatable temperature. It'd be nice if they were a little warmer, but they do the job ok. I think that the packs can't really heat milk too well if milk is in any kind of insulated (plastic) bottle. Glass bottles may heat better. The other thing about these packs is that reactivating them is kind of a pain. You have to boil a big pot of water and put a washcloth in the bottom so that the packs don't burn. It takes about 10 minutes for the crystals to melt. I guess that's not too hard but we live in an instant-gratification world so it seems burdensome. Overall, though, they're a neat product and worth it under the right circumstances.

I wanted something that required no wires and helped to keep food warm for 1-2 hours. This seems to do it. I like the backup heating pack but the downside is that the packs spontaneously active without any strenuous efforts. It has a tiny thin coin size metal piece for activating the crystals for heating so that can easily activate during travel. To deactive the crystals, you have to place the packet ontop of a cloth and submurge this in boiling water for 5-7 minutes. If you pull out the packet before the crystals are completely dissolved, it all crystalizes again and you have to repeat the process. It is a bit annoying to have to decrystalize and make sure it comes back to its liquid state for the next usage. I accidentally burned a piece of the plastic near the velcro when using a saute pan. I recommend using a deep sauce pan and a kitchen towel so that it doesn't burn the plastic.

This would be a five star review if only this warmer could heat a cold bottle well. I LOVE the fact that all you do is click a disk and the warmer is activated. No plugging in, etc. You just heat the warmers in boiling water for 10 minutes to get the gel back to a liquid state and it keeps that way until you are ready to use again. It does a great job of warming freshly pumped milk that may cool down. My baby likes her milk warm :) Milk that I pump and refrigerate will get warm, but you have to wrap the bottle in the warmer much earlier to give it time to warm up. 15 minutes for cold milk straight from the fridge won't do.I do have to say that one of the disks broke as I attempted to use the second warmer. I contacted the company and they were so nice and professional. They promptly sent me a replacement warmer. I would recommend this product. Just don't expect it to work like an electric bottle warmer.

I bought this item for my daughter because she is breastfed and refuses to drink cold/room temp milk. This product is really cool how it works It is portable and the inserts heat up very hot. Even though the inserts are hot it takes a good 15 minutes for a 4 oz bottle to be warm. It was incredibly hard to wait that long with a screaming baby. You also have a little metal tab in the inserts you have to bend to start the reaction that keeps the heat. The metal piece in one of my inserts was very hard to bend. In fact, I had to have my husband to bend it. You can use these over and over, you simply boil them for a few minutes and then let them cool. I would recommend this product to a friend if they needed heating ability with no power. This product was not great for me