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