Although it can be used in some food products, I can’t imagine using lye around a baby’s milk. It works on the same principles as MRE’s. The heat source fires up and transfers heat to the milk or food and dissipates.

In North America, we’re suckers for anything and everything that even remotely resembles a baby convenience product. I suspect that once this hits the shelves, it will end up on every new parents’ baby registry. They will fly off Target shelves along with their overpriced replacement cartridges.

That said, I wouldn’t buy one.

It’s a special kind of salt that produces an exothermic reaction when it meets the water. I’ve seen coffee drinks around these parts that have the same kind of “button” on the bottom of the can that you pop to heat the coffee.

I had to stop nursing my daughter due to medical reasons, (weird, I know), and pregnancy and she’s a fickle little thing would still will not drink milk of any kind from a bottle unless it’s a few degrees above lukewarm.

High maintenance? Yes.. But when a full belly gets her to sleep at night, I’ll cater to her desires.

That being said, there were many times where it was a HUGE hassle to try to find somewhere to warm the bottle or warm water to make the formula. This would have come in handy.

I like that it’s cordless, too.

But ONLY if the temperature could be tweaked. I can’t imagine how it compensates for an 8 oz bottle vs. a 3 oz. bottle. Obviously, you can try to take off a smaller bottle before the time is up to heat to the proper temp, but that seems to be a hassle.

I don’t know… seems expensive and bulky and wasteful over all, even if it’s something I would possibly have used with my daughter.

I’d say shame for the wastefulness, expense, and lack of versatility in temps, but fame for the general idea.

I always had milk at the right temperature and never had to worry about finding water, heat sources or clean bottles. Seems like it’s a whole lot easier just to breastfeed. Even pumped milk can be left at room temp for 8 hours safely.