DH F*(*ed up my new iron sole plate by melting something on it - how do I clean it?

[sunnywong]

Is there some bicarbonate of soda secret? Or do I have to go to bloody effing Kmart (there are no corner shops that sell everything here) and persuade some 14 year old to direct me to the iron cleaner shelf not via the obscene mountains of horrid chocolate that the Australians will insist on.

I 'm furious on two counts, this is a lady-territory thing here. If dh has to get his mother iron his one and only pair of semi-formal trousers to wear on the only day of the year he needs to be anything approaching formal, I will be spitting feathers. Do you know what it's like to have to bow out to your MIL to provide an iron for your dh, and she's had her bloody iron since 1966 and it is in prisitne conditions, pristine I tell you.

HELP

what is it that has stuck?

try turning it on low heat and rubbing with a cloth - i once got melted bread bag off with a bit of old pillow case. i think i had to turn it up quite high though. also i do not konw what a sole plate is (do not iron very often) so please entligten me.

yes, yes, it is of the melted bag nature. And the sole plate, is the iron part, sole as in sole of the foot.

ohhh i understand now. i thought it was some posh antipodean floating springy thing. just rememberd that you should iron a towel or something rough first to get off the worst of it. not a towel that you love of course because it will always have bag on it.

You could try Hobrite (not sure what the Oz equivalent is), which is like a bathroom cleaner but less abrasive. I use it on the glass pane of the woodburner as I don't want to scratch the glass.