Perfect Prep™ Day & Night Machine

1. Power on your perfect prep by pressing the middle button. 

2. Press and hold the right button for 3 seconds, then release (a gear icon will appear).

3. Press the middle button to enter settings.

4. Scroll through with left or right to find the preferred language and confirm by pressing the middle button.

Before you use your Perfect Prep for the first time, you need to run a cleaning cycle and fit your filter:

1. Press the select button and then follow the directions on your screen.

2. Once you’ve fitted your filter, the unit will warn you that the tank is empty and that you need to add water - use cold tap water.

3. It can take up to 10 minutes for the water to filter through into the base of the unit. Once enough water has filtered through, the tank empty warning light will go off and your system is ready to use.

TIP: Press the select button at any time during cleaning to pause water pumping through.

Priming Your Filter

Only ever handle the filter by holding it by the blue cap.

1. Remove the filter from packaging.

2. Remove the sticker from the top of the filter.

3. Fill a bowl with cold tap water.

4. Submerge the filter in water and gently agitate until the bubbles stop.

Your filter is now ready to fit into the water hopper. Once you place the filter into the machine, use the first bottle cycle without adding formula as a final flush to complete this process. Once complete, you’re ready to go!

The perfect sized feed, at the perfect temperature at the touch of a button. The Perfect Prep works with any brand of powdered formula milk and has an adjustable base to suit different bottle shapes and sizes. Simply measure out the formula and the Perfect Prep™ does everything else.

How to make a feed with your Perfect Prep™ Day & Night

1. Press the power button to turn on your machine.
2. Make sure your machine is filled up with cold water.
3. Select your feed size you require using the forward and back buttons.
4. Measure out the formula, add to the bottle and place bottle on the stand.
5. A hot shot of water is added to the bottle. Once added, add lid to the bottle and shake.
6. Place bottle back on the stand and the machine will top it up with cold water.

You should clean your Perfect Prep™ machine:

• Before its first use and then on a 4-weekly basis.
• If your machine hasn’t been used for 1 week.
• When replacing your filter.

No, we recommend you use normal tap water in the hopper.  If you do use boiling water, the machine will recognise that the water is too hot, and it won’t let you dispense a feed as the milk would be too hot and pose a risk to your baby.

The hot shot helps to dissolve the formula powder quickly and easily, it also kills bacteria which may be present in the formula itself. The water dispensed in the hot shot is at a temperature of over 70°C.

As is normal with all manufactured products, the Perfect Prep Machine dispensed water volume has an allowed tolerance of +/- 5%. Additionally, there are potential tolerances in the measurement graduations of our Closer to Nature bottles.

This means that any volume below 100 ml may vary by +/- 5 ml, and any volume above 100 ml may vary by +/- 5%.

It’s therefore possible for the combination of both tolerances, machine, and bottle, to make the volume dispensed by the machine appear inaccurate.

Our Closer to Nature baby bottles all meet or surpass the requirements for volume tolerances as specified by European Standard EN 14350.

Although we do not manufacture formula powder, we have looked at what the leading brands recommend and most assume that a 9lb+ baby will be on 4oz feeds. It is difficult to recommend a "suitable from" age because every newborn’s weight is different. Some babies are onto 4oz feeds within a couple of weeks whereas others may take longer.

We would love for you to be able to prepare a smaller bottle volume with the Perfect Prep unit, but it cannot make up a bottle below 4oz because the volume of the feed needs to be large enough to easily split into two:

1. An initial hot shot big enough to dilute the formula into
2. A dilution big enough to dilute the hot down to body temperature ready to serve

For any smaller feeds, we don’t have enough hot water in which to dilute the formula powder effectively, or enough to dilute and cool it down sufficiently from 70°C.

The Perfect Prep unit contains a probe that measures the temperature of the water in the tank which prevents the unit from dispensing if the water is above 27°C. This is a key safety feature to ensure that the final feed is not too hot for your baby.

High water temperature should only ever be an issue in hotter climates, but it is not uncommon for mains water to rise in temperature in cooler climates during a sustained period of hot weather.

We therefore recommend that the cold tap is flushed for 10 seconds before filling the tank.

To prevent your unit getting too hot…

• Keep it out of direct sunlight.
• Regularly top it up with cold tap water rather than letting a full unit stand and warm for long periods of time.
• Keep a cold jug of water in the fridge.
• Add some ice cubes to the hopper.

You may find that there’s a small residue of black carbon in the bag or on the surface of the cartridge; this can happen and it’s nothing to be concerned about. These dust particles are harmless and will be reduced during the initial set up process when submerging in clean fresh water.

The carbon used in the filter is food grade certified and therefore poses no harm to your little one.