How to do own hot shot formula method?

You dont need to put anything in the fridge. All you need to sterilise are your bottles, do a few each morning. Boil a full kettle in the morning and fill up 2-3 bottles with water. Let this water cool, you’ll use it throughout the day for the first few bottles. When its time for a feed, take a new sterilised bottle (empty) and add your 4 scoops. Boil the kettle and add water on top of the powder- either 1-2oz depending on how hot she likes the bottle, I would only do 1oz. Then add the lid and shake. Then make up the other 3 oz from the cooled boiled water you made earlier and shake again, ready to serve! So its only the time to boil the kettle and do a few shakes. When going out, bring a flask of boiling water and use it where you would use the kettle

thank you. Do you need to sterilise the bottles you’re keeping the cooled boiled water in? And you’d just keep them at room temperature all day? You wouldn’t put them in the fridge? I’ve noticed the prep machine makes a 120ml bottle at 130ml, I guess taking into account the formula. So you’d fill the bottle up to 130ml total?

I use two flasks one for hot water and one for cooled boiled water. I used to make and keep in the fridge and still do for his early morning feed as the hot water needs to be at least 70°c and will only stay hot in the flask for about 5 hrs (I brought a thermometer to find this out 😅) My son has 6oz so I use 3oz hot water to do hot shot method and then 3oz cooled boiled water and then its ready to drink.

thank you. So you just keep the cooler boiler water flask at room temperature, not in the fridge? Do you wash and sterilise it every day? Do you decant from both flasks into a separate container first to measure out 3oz exactly since you can’t accurately measure the water in the bottle with the formula already in it? Sorry I’m honestly a pretty intelligent person when not stressed and seriously sleep deprived!!

Yes you need to sterilise them. The cooled water can just stay out on the side no bother, just keep lid on. No benefit to putting them in the fridge as its just water. Yes its just the volume of the powder so make it up to slightly more

Yeah I keep the cooled boiled water flask out and I rinse them out with boiling water as the flasks aren't used for anything else. Yeah I'll have a spare sterile bottle usually a smaller one to measure out the cooled water. Literally takes seconds and so easy. I only pre make his early morning feed as I usually forget to replace the hot water in the flask or fall asleep.

When I was combi feeding I found Sterifeed bottles really useful for measuring out hot or cooled water. The red label ones can be sterilised too.

sorry silly question but how do you get the boiled water to cool in the flask. Does the flask not make it retain the heat?

I leave it cool in the kettle then pour it in.

thank you