How To Clean (Wash) Feeding Bottles ?

If you have recently bought feeding bottles and has no idea how to clean them post feeding, please continue to read this post.
Or if you have been wrongly cleaning the sterilized bottles with a piece of cloth and find the activity too cumbersome and you end up spending most part of the day in kitchen cleaning bottles, please do not move away from this post and continue reading it.

I and my wife had a real tough time cleaning the feeding bottles as we used to first wash it in running water with normal (regular) dish washer that we used for washing our common kitchen utensils. Then, we used to immerse the bottles in hot water (boiled at 100 deg C) - traditional way of sterilizing. Once done, we took out the bottles and let them air dry. And as we had a limited quantity of bottles, in rush hour, we would generally clean the steam soaked bottles with a piece of cloth. Side affect - cloth's threads would stick to bottles not only from outside but inside as well. And the same thread particles would become part of the feed when formula is mixed with water in the bottle. Scary isn't it, cloth dust in your baby's feed would eventually end up in baby's tummy. So to avoid all this, we decided to change the way we used to wash and clean the feeding bottles.

What we did:

1. Bought Pigeon's Liquid Cleanser:
- Please avoid using the regular dish washer for cleaning the feeding bottles. 
- Use Pigeon's or any good brand's liquid cleanser to clean the bottles.
- Keep this cleanser exclusively for cleaning feeding bottles only. Do not use it for cleaning other utensils.
- Dilute the liquid cleanser and then wash the bottles with it

2. Used Regular Drinking water to clean bottles
- Make sure your regular drinking water is not too hard
- Do not use bore-well water to clean the bottles

3. Used Bottle brush to clean bottles instead of cleaning with hands under running water
- Better use a brush to clean the bottles than cleaning it by hands
- Biggest advantage of using the brush: it makes cleaning super easy and cleans the most difficult areas of the bottles.
- if you are using or planning to buy Dr. Brown's bottle brush for cleaning the bottles, please note that the end part of the is to be used for cleaning the bottle teats.

4. Used Electric Steam Sterilizer from Philips to sterilize the bottles
- Biggest advantage: Saves lot of water
- Other big advantage: Bottles are 99% germs free
- Read Philips Sterilizer Product Review here.

5. Once Sterilized, let it air dry to remove the steam from the bottles and accessories
- Do not use cloth piece to clean the bottles from inside. This will result in leaving cloth particles behind which will enter baby's feed while making the feed. 
- You can microwave the bottles for few seconds. Please make sure you do not microwave it for more than a minute as bottles may melt.

6. Once dried, bottles washed / sterilized / cleaned are good enough to be used again for feeding the baby.

Recommended Bottles:
Dr. Brown's
Philips Avent

Check Differences between Dr. brown's and Philips Avent bottles & which is better ?

Thanks!