WIRED A well-built, good-looking handheld clothes steamer. Shoots pressurized steam! TIRED At $300, it is much more expensive than the competition and not much difference in performance when compared to cheaper steamers.
I concentrated on my shirts, as they are made from a variety of fabrics in different thicknesses, and that's what I iron the most. I steamed one side of each with the Iggi and the other with the URPower. Quickly, I confirmed that cotton dress shirts are not the forte of steamers. They work for some gentle de-wrinkling of one that's been recently pressed, but not much more than that. An iron would do this work more quickly.
In a true pandemic flashback, I stayed in on a Friday night to do some head-to-head de-wrinkling, moving on to a linen shirt that had been ironed some time ago. This was clearly more steamer-friendly territory, the hot vapor gently smoothing out most of its creases. I could see the appeal of not hauling out the ironing board, especially if I only needed to spruce up that day's shirt, and I imagined my new routine: Wake up, plug in the steamer, make coffee, steam, head out the door.
I moved on to a 65 percent polyester, 35 percent cotton Western shirt, and that steamed pretty well too. But honestly, if you have a decent ironing setup, the added convenience of a handheld steamer isn't always that great. Speaking of setups, if you're committing to Team Steam, you'll want to figure out a way to hang your clothes so you can comfortably and effectively work on them, which means having them hanging from a solid hanger on a hook that won't budge.
People apparently like steaming their curtains, so I tried that too. “Like” was a strong word in my case, and after doing side-by-side test zones of maybe 30 square feet with each steamer, I quit. I have no idea what my curtains are made of—some kind of refined jute?—but my wife, Elisabeth, and I inspected them with a couple different light angles and saw no difference at all.
Next, I took the Iggi to Mexico. The URPower steamer says right on it that it's “not for abroad,” which is a little counterintuitive for a travel steamer, but I was in no mood to start an electrical fire in a foreign country, so I left it at home. The Iggi is on the heavier side—at more than 2 pounds, its almost twice the weight of the URPower—but if you can afford a $300 steamer, you're probably not too worried about overweight-baggage fees.
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