r/FormulaFeeders • u/typewriteher77 • Sep 10 '25

Bottles / Feeding Gear / Equipment 🍼 Electric kettle method > Baby Brezza

My husband and I are big tea/matcha/coffee drinkers and so we already had an electric kettle you could set to specific temperatures before we had our baby. I fretted over whether to get the Baby Brezza dispenser for a long time and it’s just really not worth it for us — our $40 electric kettle heats up in about 30 seconds to the perfect 130 degrees that our Bobbie formula suggests. I pre-measure formula scoops so it’s ready to go and requires minimal brain power late at night. I think more people in the U.S. should use a kettle and skip the Brezza. Not worth the cost!

Edit to add: I'm not a hater :-) I just want folks (especially U.S.-based) to know about electric kettles. They are cheaper and there is a lot of expensive stuff marketed to new moms. I was excited to be able to use something we already owned and it worked for us. You do you!

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u/bleucheeez Sep 10 '25

I'm surprised to see what I sense is an uptick in discussion on the Baby Brezza. 

Just a reminder that the Baby Brezza does not sterilize water and does not get hot enough to kill cronobacter. It also does not clean itself. 

Most importantly, the first version of the Baby Brezza killed three American babies because it was unreliably calibrated. This company does not care about your children. 

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u/DumbbellDiva92 Sep 10 '25

In fairness, most Americans are not doing the “hot water to sterilize the formula powder” step anyway, bc our guidelines do not require it. Cronobacter contamination of formula is incredibly, incredibly rare.

That said I totally agree with you on the calibration issues. We had problems with my daughter with our Brezza, thankfully not until she was older (so she had a bit of weight loss but no organ problems bc she was old enough to drink water, and we realized it pretty quickly). 100% skipping it for our next child and just going to mix each bottle by hand (we don’t like feeding fridge cold nor dealing with a bottle warmer, so no pitcher method for us).

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u/LetsCELLebrate FF from the start! Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

Cronobacter contamination of formula is incredibly, incredibly rare.

Thank you. I feel the same about this. Also, not everyone is from USA where cases were more prevalent than in Europe.

I use Topfer (I'm from Europe) and even the box instructions say that I could use 40 celsius degrees water for making the formula. I just use room temp one, after being boiled.

Guidelines can differ soo so much. I hate how divisive this subject has become.

Edit: rather than worry so much about Cronobacter, maybe people from USA should be worried about this more. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/well/cdc-foodnet.html?unlocked_article_code=1.k08.f8b-.FYYC1m-2ekrv&smid=url-share