When ironing clothes we used the old kind, where you just put the hot charcoal inside and just keep

loading more charcoal when needed. Its heavy to handle too.

When we used it before when I was in the farm when ironing our clothes my sisters would always put

banana leaves underneath the iron for resting in between uses. There was always a pile of fresh, cool

banana leaves as a place to set the iron.

It makes the clothes smell good like earthy, full of nature. Hey, only people that used it understands

what I’m saying. The city people would not know what I was talking about, I think.

As you can see, there is no electric plug. And it is called an iron…because its made of IRON.

In order to use this contraption, you must first make a fire to have charcoal. You then load the iron with

glowing hot charcoal and lock the lever on top shut.

One must plan this out as you would iron first the items that were thick and can take the “high heat”

setting — actually make that the “hot as hell” setting. And be super careful lest you scorch –no,

actually BRAND yourself (forever) if you accidentally let any part of the iron touch your skin.

The grandmother using a charcoal iron.

The hinged lid and the air holes allowed the charcoal to keep smouldering. On the side was a red charcoal

stove for burning more fuel.