duckydo

don't put oven cleaner on your iron. There is a iron cleaner that works great, you can find it in the section with the spray starch. you just put a dab on a clean white cloth and set the iron on hot and then iron over the iron cleaner the iron on a clean cloth, I have removed lots of gunk off of my iron with this iron cleaner. Also my mom used to use a warm iron on waxed paper, and I mean warm not HOT

duckydo

Also you might want to invest in one of the teflon ironing sheets, I use it all the time when doing wonder under and you never have to worry about messing up your iron, they are relative inexpensive and I think clotilde has them

girlsfour

Great idea. The teflon fabric is for sale at Hancock Fabrics is suppose as well as Joann. Could you use that???

mamadi1

Salt & brown paper bag works the best for me

matraina

That happened to me a few days ago. At JoAnn's, I used a 50% off coupon (because it was rather expensive) and bought Rowenta soleplate cleaning kit, a hot iron cleaner. It worked like a dream and did not take a lot of elbow grease.

Dagny

I had excellent results when I cleaned my iron with the same cleaner that I use for my glass stove top.

JANW

used dryer sheets always work to clean my iron, just iron over a dryer sheet a few times and it removes any residue from fusible web etc. Good luck

rosalyne

I just use dryer sheets. Set the iron on cotton and run it over the dryer sheets one by one till your iron is clean. I hope this works for you. Roz

QuiltinPaws

Did you try sticking the iron in the freezer for a while and see if the stuff would pop off? If it is not smeared on that might just work.

gmaybee

Thanks for all the different solutions. In my haste the other day I ironed right over a piece of webbing, of course I had it wrong side up. The whole bottom of my iron is a mess. I had another iron tucked away that I could finish my project with, although it's not a good one. I'll try some of these things before I go to the store and pick up Iron Off.