When I bought my new iron several weeks ago, I just couldn’t believe the range of prices on irons. I thought it couldn’t really be that tough – it just needs to heat up and put out steam every once in a while. Having a non-stick surface and a water squirter were also desirable – but really, they’re not all that complicated. So, I bought an iron that had a nifty feature; a retractable cord. By coincidence, this iron also happened to be one of the cheaper ones (somewhere in the mid $20’s - but others were up in the $80’s).
Guess I should have done as much research on irons as I have on vehicles! The cord retraction isn’t that great. In fact, I usually have to push the cord in and hope it goes around its little bobbin. The steam feature is such that you can adjust from no steam to a lot of steam - or so the theory goes. Actually, the steam comes out at will (even when it is set at “none”) or doesn’t come out at all even when it’s set at “full”. What’s worse is that when it forgets to steam, it just lets out big burbles of water on an irregular basis. Nothing like ending up with clothes that are wetter after ironing than they were coming out of the washer!
I don’t remember which model the iron was, but I will be staying away from anything with the name GE on it for a while.
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