Customer Reviews

The First Years 2-in-1 Drying Rack

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3 star:		(9)
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1 star:		(8)

 

 

So you've sterilized all the baby equipment, and now what do you do with it while it is drying? The regular dish rack is too large and drying items on a towel takes forever, not to mention too much counter space. I've found this rack to be the perfect solution. It is small enough to tuck away easily when not in use, but large enough to hold lots of baby items. I can fit 3 breast pump attachments, 8 pacifiers, 2 bottles + nipples, covers and rings as well as 4 breast milk storage bottles easily. It is also very nice that it is angled to allow water to drain into the sink instead of pooling at the bottom of the rack. I also love how you can customize the configuration of the drying pegs, this ensures that the rack will remain useful long after bottles are a thing of the past. This is a great item!

A bottle drying rack is a must have. If you have to hand-wash your bottles, they can dry here. If you are lucky and have a dishwasher you can store them here for easy access. The bottle/nipple brush is also a must have. These two things are extremely handy and make organization much easier.

I love this drying rack. It's the perfect size to hold everything and doesn't take up much counter space at all. It keeps everything organized and ready to use all in one spot. When you're a busy mom, you can't ask for more than that! You can also rearrange the prongs to hold more/less bottles or accomodate larger items. Water drains nicely into the sink and the entire rack fits easily into the dishwasher for quick, no-fuss cleaning.

I really like this drying rack. It really makes it easy to have sanitized bottles and brushes on hand. I throw it in the cabinet when I'm not using it, which is something I couldn't do with the big regular sized dish drying rack I was using. It was too big for this purpose. With a space for everything it also allows me to keep everything in the same area rather than different drawers.

I received this rack as a baby shower gift. It's great! Not only you can use this rack for baby bottles and toddler cups, but also regular drinking cups. After my mom (who stayed with us and helped around the house for a few days) washed the mugs she and my dad used, she placed them on this rack to dry. When I realized she thought it was a small dish rack and I told her what it is, we laughed.

The bottle and nipple brush in one is wonderful. You don't have to keep track of two separate brushes. Plus, I love the brush holder. I always know where the brush is. :-)

This bottle drying rack is wonderful. It really holds are good amount of bottles. Plus it keeps everything all organized. That is important since tiny parts are easy to loose. I love that I can hang dry my bottles and the nipples. I didn't like having to put them on a towel to dry because I was constantly using towels (kitchen germs) and the counter was always wet. This saves me laundry time and wet counters. It was inexpensive, easy to put together, and is easy and convenient to use.

This rack worked great when our daughter used the Playtex Ventaire bottles but it totally stunk when she was using teh Avent and Dr. Brown's wide neck bottels. They were jsut too wide to fit in the rack. Add the collars and nipples were all too big to fit in the compartment. We really had problems when we had all teh pieces of the Dr. Brown's to deal with too. We tried a couple other drying racks too...Prince Lionheart and Munchkins...but we never found one that really worked for us. Most times we just washed them and laid them on a towel on the counter to dry

I really like this dryer as it keeps my baby's bottles seperated and organized. It has a great tilt so that the water drains directly into the sink. It snaps together easily -- and is a cinch to clean and maintain. It is small enough that it isn't a hassle but big enough to handle our needs.

One last point I would like to make is that I use the wide-necked bottles (Avent and Dr. Brown's) exclusively without any problems. Sometimes it may be "tight" fitting everything in -- but this is a universal bottle drainer ... so that is to be expected. I find that this works very well and is certainly worth ten bucks!!

We actually got The First Years rack as well as the Munchkin drying racks, and neither was very useful.

The First Years Rack holds most bottles/accessories in the front, but didn't hold them very well in some cases. Dr. Brown's bottles didn't fit well at all. The back area holds a scrubbing brush (which we liked - keeps it vertical and dry), but wasn't very good at holding nipples or bottle lids (from Playtex Naturalatch Bottles, in this case). My wife took one look, tried to place a part or two and sent me back with it.

Another option, the Munchkin Drying Rack holds lots of "snap out" pieces that fit in the Medela bottle lids (to close off breast milk after you pump), but little else. The bottle holders are kind of nice 4-8" tall stalks you can put the bottle on, but the stalks aren't much use for nipples. We don't use the lids with the snap out pieces, so it was pretty useless for us. It might be more helpful for those who use Tri-Flow bottles, since they are also made by Munchkin.

The best rack we have found is from Prince Lionheart:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00018XCJC/qid=1124937150/sr=8-6/ref=pd_bbs_6/002-3590167-9987266?v=glance&s=baby&n=507846

It holds 8 bottles as well as other accessories on those same "projections"... it has places to dry the miscellaneous little parts of a breast pump and can fit the breast pump shields with no problem. A side by side comparison of the three racks makes it no comparison!

This drying rack is a great space saver! I had no idea something so compact could hold so much! It holds everything (bottles, nipples and tops) neatly and efficiently. It even had a little holder for the bottle brush that came with it! For anyone short of space I highly recommend it!