The Best Bottle Warmers of 2023

• Power source: Electric
• Auto shut-off: Yes
• What it heats: All baby bottles; baby food jars and small bowls

The Beaba Baby Milk 3-in-1 Bottle Warmer heats up bottles so quickly that it was an easy choice for second place here. I found that it was easily heating up my bottles in about three minutes, which was ideal. It also has a timer and beeps when it’s finished, which ensures you won’t forget about it and that it won’t overheat. It’s easy to figure out once you’ve read through the instructions, and the slim, compact shape is a nice advantage.

This one also has some nice features: It can warm baby food and can also act as a sterilizer to clean your bottles, which is great.

But the biggest disadvantage here, for me, is all the steam. While the steam warms milk quickly, it makes the bottle very hot to the touch, so I found it had to sit out for a minute or two before I could hold it for my daughter.

The nipple also has to be taken off the bottle, so there’s the possibility of spilling, making it a little harder to operate this one one-handed.

• Power source: Electric
• Auto shut-off: Yes
• What it heats: Bottles of all sizes and brands

The Munchkin Digital Bottle Warmer is really straightforward and easy to use, with a few convenient features.

The digital interface allows you to customize the amount of time you want your bottle to heat up, although I did find some of the suggestions in the manual didn’t really heat my bottles enough, so you sort of have to play around with it to figure out what works for you.

Maybe the best part about it is the digital memory timer that remembers the last setting you used, which is perfect for tired parents.

The water reservoir for this one is fairly large, so you can get a bunch of uses out of a single fill. It has a basket that makes it safer to lift out bottles and baby food jars as well, which is nice. Overall, it heats bottles evenly and fairly quickly and is a pretty compact size.

• Power source: Electric
• Auto shut-off: Yes
• What it heats: Bottles and jars

The Boon Orb Baby Bottle Warmer is another model that uses steam to heat up the bottles. Because of that, this one really did heat up the bottles quickly and in the amount of time the guide suggests. It’s a lot easier to clean than some of the other models, with a wide chamber and a plastic basket that can be removed. Filling the water reservoir was pretty frustrating—it has to be done with every single use, and the markings are really hard to read.

Unfortunately, the safety issues with this one were a pretty big deal for me. The steam heat left the bottle extremely hot, like so hot that I nearly burned myself taking it out. The guide recommends letting the bottle sit for up to 10 minutes to cool, so even if it heats up the milk quickly, that waiting time is a huge downer. It also doesn’t have a timer, so the bottle can sit in there and easily overheat.

• Power source: Electric
• Auto shut-off: Yes
• What it heats: Bottles, jars, breastmilk bags

On paper, the Baby Brezza Electric Bottle Warmer and all of its cool features sounds great. In reality, it didn’t quite live up to the expectations I had for it.

I found that this one wasn’t very user-friendly. It took a while for me to figure out how to use it, and I found myself having to re-read the instructions a few times. The fill line for the water reservoir is really difficult to see, which is especially frustrating in the dark.

One of the coolest features of this one is that it connects to an app on your phone so that you can control it with your phone—the app can alert you when it’s finished and you can turn it on with the phone too. While nice, this is an unnecessary feature.

It also offers the options for warming breast milk to ensure nutrients are kept safe. That’s great, but the steam from this one also leaves the bottle extremely hot and also soaking wet. I nearly burned myself getting it out of the basket, and so even if it heats up quickly, it has to sit for a bit before you or baby can touch it.

• Power source: Electric
• Auto shut-off: Yes
• What it heats: Bottles, jars, breastmilk bags

The best thing about the Kiinde Kozii Baby Bottle Warmer is also the worst thing: this one doesn’t use steam heat, which is safer because it doesn’t leave the bottle hot to the touch and doesn’t have the potential to burn your hands while you’re using it. However, the lack of steam heat also means this one takes a long time to heat up your milk—this was the slowest one we tested.

It has a timer and beeps when it’s finished, and it’s a nice and compact size. However, the guide that suggested timing was completely off for me—I had to add a lot more time during the warming process to get the bottle to a comfortable temperature. The manual also says to use two cups of water to fill it, but mine overflowed when I did this and made a huge mess.

• Power source: None
• Auto shut-off: Yes
• What it heats: Bottles, jars, breastmilk bags

You aren’t always home when you need to warm up your bottles, so it’s helpful to have a portable option as well. The Tommee Tippee Closer To Nature Portable Bottle Warmer is one of only a few travel bottle warmers out there, but I found it fell short of my expectations.

This one isn’t electric like the other bottle warmers—it’s basically just a thermos with a container on the side. You fill the thermos with boiling hot water, where it stays hot until you need it. When ready to heat up the bottle, you pour the water into the container that comes with it, then stick the bottle in there. It’s a really simple concept, but it also takes a very long time to heat the bottle-—sometimes it took me at least 10 minutes.

I also felt like it wasn’t very safe: the container holding the bottle and the water could easily spill boiling water everywhere. Basically, if you have a thermos already, you probably don’t need this model.