I love that no water is used so there is no residue left in the bottles making them feel a lot cleaner.

MAM has long been a go-to brand for baby bottles, soothers, breastfeeding products and sterilisers, so it’s little wonder this all-singing, all-dancing piece of kit performed well in testing. Using it to also dry your equipment takes the cycle time up to around 40 minutes – similar to other dual function machines.The NHS advises that all used equipment – bottles, teats and breast pump parts that come into contact with milk – are cleaned as soon as possible after use using hot soapy water. To clean the teat, we firstly recommend that you run it through your fingers whilst it’s submerged in the soapy water. This steriliser offers great value for money and does exactly what you need to sterilise up to four bottles in four minutes. Several make loud beeps at the beginning and end of their cycle and some even during, making a dishwasher-like hum. Home tester Georgina, mum of a 6 month old, said, "The ease and speed of this machine makes it well worth the money, and there’s no need for descaling or cleaning after each cycle.

It has a four-bottle capacity plus room for extra breast pump parts, a sturdy locking lid and a two- to six-minute cycle depending on the wattage of your microwave. A steriliser can be used to kill bacteria found on lots of different baby feeding equipment like baby bottles, teats and breast pump parts. Sterilising feeding equipment is essential to help protect your newborn’s developing immune system from potentially harmful bugs and bacteria.What we loved about the Milton Solo was that, travel steriliser or not, it’s more adaptable and comes with more useful design features than any other travel model we tested.

If you are using small MAM bottles, you can add up to six but if you are using large MAM bottles (as shown in the image), you can add up to four into the steriliser. After the microwave has finished, you’ll want to carefully move the bottles out of the microwave and remove the remanding water from the base.They’ll remain sterile in the solution for 24 hours and more items can be added as and when they’re used. Items inside stay sterile for 24 hours and the lid is designed with a flat lip so it can be laid horizontally in a smaller microwave – a useful feature we didn’t find in any other travel steriliser.