Iron buying guide

Irons have evolved from those big bulky heavy irons to multi featured, light, comfortable, and user friendly daily device without which a home is incomplete now a days. I remember those irons which burned my shirts just because I was talking somewhere else and I couldn’t adjust its heating. Now the time has changed, we have irons with amazing features. They non stick coat and they glide on your cloth, heat control so your cloth won’t burn and different level of heating so you can heat up your iron up to the level you want which suits the cloth you are ironing.
It’s not a tuff job to buy an iron but a buying guide can definitely make it easier for you. In this article I’ll explain you different types of iron so you can make up your mind easily while buying an iron.
Primarily there are two kind of iron you can go for. Dry iron and steam iron. Dry irons are traditional irons, the simplest you can get in the market. They don’t require any water and offer basic and simplest feature. Under steam iron there different kind of iron. Simple Steam iron, Steam / Spray iron, Steam / Spray / Shot iron and Steam Generator iron. Simple steam irons are better than dry iron. They release a small amount of steam which makes the creases disappear faster and makes your ironing easier and faster. Steam/ spray iron are for very dry clothes. They can spray a small amount of water when needed and steam too. Steam / Spray / Shot iron are for styling and of course ironing. They release steam intense and pressurized steam which helps clothes to get in a shape. Steam Generator iron offers the best results in the fastest time is a steam generator iron. Generating continuous steam it makes ironing really easy.
Irons come in different type of sole plates. Aluminum, coated nonstick, stainless steel and ceramic plates. While aluminum plated are old style and have lots of drawbacks like burning or wrinkling your cloth and getting sticky and becoming useless overtime a coated non stick do not gets sticky as its name tells you, glides on your cloth smoothly and makes ironing a cloth real easy. Stainless steel coated sole plate is a better option. Distributing heat all over equally it takes less time in ironing than normal. But this plate can get scratched while ironing because of zip or buttons so they should be handles with care. At last ceramic sole plate is the best option. It has a durable, non-stick surface and it distributes the heat well offering a smooth gliding action over the clothes as you iron. Happy shopping.