Tips for descaling steriliser

Does anyone have any tips for descaling a steriliser? I have the tommee tippee steam steriliser, I try to descale every 2-3 days using a descaling liquid but I can’t seem to get rid of all of this (posted below) 🥲

TIA x

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I had the same issue and we decided to get a cold water steriliser as it kept happening

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White vinegar. Put a small amount, let it soak then scrub it off. It should get rid of it completely though I’m not sure what you can do about the burn marks

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I have the same sterilizer. I leave 200 ml of white vinegar overnight and rinse afterward.

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Lemon juice works well

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I think also depends on if your a hard water area. We have this issue and have to clean it every few weeks. We use white vinegar. Does the job

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We use viakal then sterilise on empty before we do the bottles in there

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We had this with the same steriliser and it's because the water where we live is hard. I just used to pour white vinegar in it, turn the steriliser on (empty) and it would be clean afterwards. I had to clean it after every use

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Citric acid

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Thank you all! Think I’m just gonna get a cold water steriliser x

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This is the exact reason I got rid of ours. We lasted about 3 weeks with it before we ditched it and switched to Milton. We live in a very hard water area so just had to chalk it down to that

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Hi it happens to mine every few weeks but I use a knife to scrape all the rust off then liquid..then it’s good as new x

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I use Kilrock descaler

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We've had that. It's life in a hard water area isn't it unfortunately...just used white vinegar like we do to descale the kettle.

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Lemon juice, fill it up and turn on without any compartments on it. Only leave it on for around 30-40 seconds and then rinse. Then put normal about of water on for the normal amount of time c

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