Perfect Prep™ Machine

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.

1. To clean your Perfect Prep™ machine, follow these instructions:
2. Remove the lid, hopper and bottle stand and set the filter to one side (top side down).
3. Clean the external machine surface with a clean cloth (it is advisable to use an antibacterial solution), taking care to clean in all grooves and under the dispenser spout.
4. At this time the lid, hopper and bottle stand should also be cleaned using hot soapy water, rinsed thoroughly, and allowed to dry naturally (do not use cloths or tea towels to dry).
5. Plug in the unit, the empty tank warning light will illuminate.

Now choose from the following two cleaning options:

• Using a cold-water sterilising solution (following manufacturer guidelines for using with 1.8 litres of water), add required amount to the water tank. Fill the tank to the max line with cold water and place a suitable container under the dispenser spout.

• Pour 1 litre of clear/white (food grade) vinegar into the water tank. Top up the water tank to the max line with freshly boiled water and place a suitable container under the dispenser spout.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are also changing your Tommee Tippee water filter, press the filter reset button for 2 seconds to clear the machine memory before using for a feed.

The perfect Prep™ can detect limescale build up, notifying you when it needs descaling. The descaling process will remove deposits of calcium and other minerals in the system that may affect its performance. A red descale warning light will illuminate when the unit requires descaling soon. If the red light flashes, you should descale immediately.

1. Remove the filter from the hopper – this is very important.
2. Fill the water tank with 500ml of distilled white vinegar (4% or 5%).
3. Place a container under the dispenser outlet.
4. Press the descale button for 2 seconds and the system will run a descale process. During the descale process the red descale light will continue to flash.
5. At the end of the descale process an alarm will sound and the descale light will switch off.
6. Next two cleaning cycles will run.
7. Place a container under the dispenser outlet.
8. Fill the tank with 1 litre of boiling hot water.
9. The tank hot light will switch on.
10. Press cleaning mode to flush the water through.
11. The boiling water will empty via the dispenser.
12. Once finished, ‘tank empty’ will light up.
13. We suggest repeating the cleaning cycle twice.
14. Once done, replace the filter and add cold water into the hopper.

Remember after any cleaning your Perfect Prep™ machine will dispense 2 cold water shots when you make the first bottle. Discard these and you’re good to go.

Your Perfect Prep™ machine needs a filter to work correctly. Replacement filters are available from the Tommee Tippee website, please follow this link to purchase.

1. A red change filter warning light will illuminate when the filter needs replacing soon (approx. 30 litres remaining). IF THIS LIGHT FLASHES, THE FILTER MUST BE CHANGED IMMEDIATELY.
2. Place a container under the dispenser outlet.
3. Press the cleaning mode button and hold for 2 seconds. The water will then drain out.
4. Press the ‘volume reset’ button for 2 seconds – this clears the memory.
5. Remove the container and take out the hopper.
6. Remove the old filter.
7. Place the hopper back in, without the filter.
8. Start a set up and clean cycle.
9. Fit your new filter and you’re all set.

Remember after any cleaning your Perfect Prep™ machine will dispense 2 cold water shots when you make the first bottle. Discard these and you’re good to go.

WARNING: Do not use other brands of filter in your machine. Even if they fit, they may not remove the same level of bacteria. Using this machine without a Tommee Tippee water filter could put your child’s health at risk.

The Perfect Prep™ should be kept in a cool, dry location, avoiding direct sunlight, and kept away from warm appliances. This is recommended to avoid the tank temperature getting too warm.

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.

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.

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