Cleaning irons

Anybody got any tips on cleaning old starch crud off the plate of the iron?

--pig

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Megan Zurawicz
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Cleaning irons. hmmmm Are they anything like branding irons?

Karen, Queen of Squishies

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Karen, Queen of Squishies

I generally use that Faultless Hot Iron Cleaner every few months. Sometimes I use the stuff from Dritz because I can always get that at JoAnns when the Faultless is out of stock at the grocery store.

I've used it on both irons with and without a teflon finish. No problem either way, it worked on both kinds without scratching or anything.

In between I keep a wet towel handy to run the iron over occasionaly while I am starching. Keeps the crud buildup down considerably.

I do have to go at the stupid steam holes with a Q-tip and Green by preference, Orange when I can't find Green, when I do the cleaning with the Faultless stuff. While the iron is cold of course.

NightMist a spritzer not a steamer

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NightMist

I always use a dryer sheet that hasn't been used. You can use it several times. It is the quickest way I have ever cleaned my iron. A bonus is that it makes the room smell good. Some of the iron cleaners can really smell up a room.

Deanna Roanoke, VA

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Deanna in Virginia

Razor blade ... very carefully.

Lobo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Delete the obvious to reply to me personally. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Lobo

H-u-m-m-m

I've always kept a very damp terry washcloth or an old dishtowel handy when I get statch build up on my irons. I just iron it off on the wet cloth. Works for me.

I learned this from my mother many years ago. She worked in a laundry when I was a child and ironed the white lab coats for the local doctors back in the days when everything was starched and ironed. Thank goodness those old days are gone. (giggle)

Kate T. South Mississippi

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Kate T.

I use that Faultless stuff in the tube. Works wonderfully on my circa-1975 Sears iron. (Yes, DH swears I am going to burn the house down someday with it, but I cannot part with it) I bought these thingys at LQS the other day, too. They look like dryer sheets, but you just iron over them and it gets the crud off the bottom. I just use them in- between the times I clean it real good with Faultless. Once I was out of those products and cleaned it with that stuff you clean coffeepots with. It worked fine, didn't damage the iron, but then, that old iron is probably indestructible. That might damage a newer iron. Good luck! HTH. Sherry

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Sherry

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