Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

You'll risk ruining your clothes and anything this iron comes in contact with! I hurriedly ordered this iron without reading the reviews and that will never happen again. I don't iron a lot, so I thought just any iron would do. I had a good German iron and it stopped fully heating after about 25 years of use. I figured, "What the heck. I'll just get a $10 iron, because I don't really use one." Big mistake! After I purchased, I read the reviews about the water leaking all over. Even though I could keep water forever in my German iron, I thought I could simply empty this one on the few times I used it and I would be spared this problem. Wrong, again. It did a little leaking and spitting the first time; I fully drained it, put in on the shelf to fully dry. After about a month, I needed to press some cloths, so I filled it about half full, let it heat up and then the trouble really began. First of all, it wouldn't even heat up. It was so lukewarm that my husband was able to put his palm fully against the sole plate. (He's a lot braver than I am.) Well, I had to press these cloths for the next day, so I tried. Water was coming out of the sole plate at a fast clip, onto everything, fully saturating the cloths and my ironing board cover. See photo of my now soaking ironing board. As if that wasn't bad enough, the thing wouldn't even press the cloths because it was so lukewarm. See photo #2 (although the wrinkles were far worse than the photo shows). What a mess! I unplugged the frigging thing and am putting it out for donation tomorrow. I'm getting the German brand again. You truly do get what you pay for.