cleaning an iron

[sixbeforelunch]

Any tips for getting an iron clean? I just put two (fortunately small and not very noticeable) stains in two of my skirts before I realized that the iron had crud on it.

Comments

[kathmandu]

A classic approach is to steam-iron a rag you don't care about until no further stains are forming. Let the crud come off on the rag before you iron your real clothes. (This is for relatively small and un-persistent crud, but it sounds like that's what you have.)