Milk dispenser pots 🥛

So formula feeding mammas that use the tommee tippee milk powder dispenser pots, or any other brand, do you wash and sterilise them after every use?
I dunno if I’m just being thick but I can’t see the need to wash and sterilise after every use seeing that the powder is in the same state when it goes into the pot and you’re then adding the hot water in the bottle to kill bacteria in the powder?
Just looking to see what others do with them 🙈 thanks in advance x

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I use a pot from Sainsbury’s that has space for 3 feeds worth and I don’t sterilise it! For the same reason you said. I give it a rinse out just because a little bit of the powder seems to stick to the bottom sometimes 😊

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thank you! I’ll just to a quick rinse! It just seems like a waste of time doing the full wash and sterilise when there’s better things I could be doing 🙈🤣

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I started doing this for first 4 weeks and give up at 5 weeks was taking me about an hour to wash and sterilise all bottels and the tubs and then get them id had enough was to much stress 😂 I don’t even use them now I just take my whole milk tub out with me 😂 it’s drying them I can’t cope with but yes towards then end I didn’t sterilise after every use just once every other day maybe x

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I literally reuse them so many times and when the formula starts to stick to the sides I wipe out with kitchen roll & wash them all once a week😂

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I wash them out whenever I’m washing bottles, but I don’t sterilise them! Formula itself isn’t sterile until it’s mixed so there’s no point, I feel 🤣

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i don’t, i just wipe them out with kitchen roll to get rid of any formula that’s stuck in there after using them

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Asda own pots have 3 slots

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We have a MAM dispenser pot and another brand, both have 3 slots. I just wash them when I’m doing the bottles and leave it to air dry. Did the same with my first and he’s ok🤣 x

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literally the same as me😂

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