Step by step guide to descale your steriliser!!

I'm going to be doing a step by step guide how to descale a tommee Tippee electric steam steriliser.

Your advised to descale your steriliser every 4 weeks to ensure it is sterilising your baby's bottles properly! 

This is the descaler I'm going to be using!  They are the boots own brand and come with 6 sachets. You can pick them up for under 3 pound! Bargain! I will do a full review after I have used them a few times! :)

1. Take out any bottles, teats, dummy's etc.. And also, take out the compartments so the Steriliser is empty!

2. Pour 200ml of water into the steriliser. I used a bottle for measuring!

3. Run a 5 minute cycle. Just with the water in. 

I would stop the steriliser before the steriliser stops itself, as a normal 5 minute cycle using 80ml of water takes 5 minutes, so the more water you put in the longer the cycle will take. So, just time 5 minutes and then unplug the steriliser.

While waiting for the 5 minutes you could throughly clean and rinse the compartments from the steriliser!

(After 5 minutes your steriliser should look like this, and the water should be bubbling. Be careful when taking the lid off as it is VERY hot!)

4. Add one of the descaler sachets into the steriliser and put the lid back on.

(When you add the liquid into the water it will start to fizz, that's exactly what should happen)

5. Leave for 30 minutes! 

(After 30 minutes your steriliser should look like this) 

6. Thoroughly wash out the steriliser using water all the limescale should remove and look like this...

7. Run a normal cycle with all the compartments in to ensure the steriliser is working properly! 

Dont put any of your baby's bottles in during this cycle!!

8. Once the cycle without bottles finishes your sterlisiler is ready for a normal cycle to sterilise your baby's bottles!

Hope this guides helps!