Perfect Prep machine - over heating

Went to make a bottle in the night and the red temperature light is on saying the water is too hot! The machine isn’t in sunlight. Any tips on how to keep water cool in this heatwave?

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We would pop a bit of ice in the water to cool it down or prop an ice block against the outside of the waterside, thats the only downfall i found with the perfect prep machine when i used it with my son it hated the warm weather

We tried ice but tbh we’ve just made her bottles and put them in the fridge, we’ve been giving her cold bottles from the fridge because she kept being really sick with warm bottles and it was curdling so much more in her stomach x

We took our machine to india last year and would have the same problem. We used to make sure the tank level was kept quite low and then top up with cold water from the fridge to bring the temperature down. Is there anywhere cooler in your house that you could move the machine to?

You just need to tip the water out and put in fresh cold water. It happened to me twice yesterday

We kept water the fridge

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