If you are looking for a cheap iron then I would recommend this iron from Sainsburys.

My regular iron had broken so I asked my boyfriend to pick one up on his way home from work. Like the cheapskate he is, he brought home this Sainsburys iron which cost only £7 although he assured me that he had gone "mid range price" by avoiding purchasing a cheaper iron which was only £5.

As the iron was so cheap I was pretty sceptical it would be any good but I was pleasantly surprised. My boyfriend wears a shirt every day for work so these were the first things I set about to test the might of this £7 iron. I have to say it did the job fine - a quick sweep was all it took to get the shirts nicely pressed. The iron has steam and spray functions which are handy for stubborn wrinkles and ironing in creases. It also has a self clean function which I am yet to use.

The only thing that lets this iron down is what I consider to be a big flaw in the design. As you can see from the picture above the back end is inexplicably very highly cut away from the base. This means that when the iron is upright on the ironing board it is not very stable and falls over at the slightest nudge. This could potentially be very dangerous and it is a shame that a good product has fallen down on the design when the functionality is very good.

On the whole it is a good cheap iron that does the job.