Customer Reviews

Dr. Brown's Drying Rack

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1 star:		(4)

 

 

I use the First Years Modular Drying Rack with my Dr. Brown's bottles. It is a much better design and IT SPINS! Dr. Brown's version has a hard to reach bottom rack which I would hate to be fishing bottle parts out of at 2 a.m!

While this product is made by the very reputable and high-end baby bottle maker, Dr. Brown's, I am dissapointed at the design. The two tier design makes it challenging to fit things underneath and then even more so, to find them easily when you need them. I would have rather had a one-tier design that was slightly larger. The two tier looks substanial on your counter, so keep that in mind if you have limited counter space. In this case, now that I have the product, it is not necessary to have the Dr. Brown's version to dry your Dr. Brown's bottles and accessories. I also bought this not having seen it at the store first. Would recommend finding one you like at the store and then shopping for it cheaper on the internet. As far as the Dr. Brown's bottle system...you can't beat them.

If I had paid 2 dollars for this, I wouldn't bother to complain.

As reviewed by others, it is indeed correct that it's poorly designed : too flimsy for Dr Brown's own 8oz glass bottles!! The bottles on the picture must be a light plastic model (if it's not a computer-generated rendition), be warned: you won't be able to do that with glass bottles.

And the bottom section of the rack? impossible to reach anything underneath.

A cheaper substitute: your regular dish rack.

Buy more and stack higher if you need the capacity. Takes up less counter space this way. Sturdy and well designed. Comes with extender feet so you can have short or tall levels when stacking. Easily unstacks for ease of loading bottle parts.

If you put bottles on this rack, they will eventually get dry... the key word here is "eventually". If you wash at night and need things to be dry in the morning, try something else. There just isn't enough air flow to get nipples, bottles, or breast pump accessories dry on the inside. We had no idea how bad it was until we tried another rack - the Boon Grass drying mat. It cut our evening washing time in half because we no longer needed to hand-dry everything we needed for the next morning. I think pretty much any rack would be a better choice than this one - look for more air flow under the items, or racks that hold items at an angle to let air in.

This could have been a great product but it really is not. The bottom rack makes difficult to find anything. I would recommend some other one and am only keeping it because it would be a hassle to return. In hindsight, I would have bought one of the rack's that spin or something, so that I could easily find and assemble the bottles.

I received this item as a baby shower gift. I like that this system has the stacking feature and is big enough to hold all the Dr. Brown's parts. My complaint with this drying rack is it seems to take the bottles forever to dry. After sterilizing the bottles in the Dr. Brown's microwave sterilizer, I put bottles on the rack to dry, and it took a good 24+ hours for all the bottles to be completely dry. I have another drying rack that holds the bottles at an angle, and it dries bottles and parts faster. It seems like if moisture is going to sit in the bottles for that long after sterilizing them, they wouldn't be as sterile. In the future I plan on using the dishwasher most of the time since it actually dries everything quickly.

I love the Dr. Brown's drying rack because it holds so many bottles and pieces. It has a drainage spout so that water does not just sit in the bottom of the wrack. I always pull the two racks apart and use them side by side rather than on top of one another. I can stack at least 10 bottles on at one time plus the pieces that go with them. All of the pieces conveniently fit right onto the drying rack. The plastic is also very easy to clean in the event you want to take it apart and wash it in the sink. It does not collect a lot of residue and is very sanitary. I would recommend this especially if you are using Dr. Brown's bottles.

This item is good because it fits all the strange bits and pieces you get with a Dr. Browns bottle. I find it too hard to use stacked as you have to take off the top rack with the bottles to access the stuff underneath. If we dried the bottles on it then put them away it would be alright stacked, but since we use this to store the bottles on the counter so they are easily accessible it is better to have them side by side meaning it takes up quite a bit of room overall. Still better than trying to make another brand of rack fit with these bottles.

This bottle rack is annoyingly overpriced and is VERY poorly designed.

Dr. Brown's bottles are the best bottles. I have used them since 2005 for all three of my children (and will use again if I ever have any more). I WRONGLY assumed that the best drying rack for the bottles MUST be the drying rack designed for them. My previous drying rack was very flimsy. So for baby #3, I decided to buy this one.

The bottom rack is a waste of time. You can only access the "pegs" in the front and on the sides (not in the middle), and it's very difficult to get any of the small parts in or out from those edges. I never use the bottom rack because I'm too afraid I'll end up knocking the whole thing over while attemping to retrieve something. So - big waste of space.

The "pegs" are just that: pegs. They have worked *ok* for my 4oz bottles, but the 8oz bottles are constantly tipping over unless I put the middle-part (sorry I'm drawing a blank for its official name) in first. It's just a pain, and I am considering buying another rack because this one stinks.

I do NOT recommend this drying rack. Save yourself the frustration and money and get something that is WORTH the money you pay for it!