In a hurry, and your shirt is wrinkled? Our cordless steam iron heats up and irons twice as fast as plug-in types You'll be amazed at how easy and fast this cordless steam iron works. It takes just 60 seconds to heat up, you can use it on any flat surface like a bed or a couch. You don't ever have to drag out an ironing board. You can steam iron that wrinkled shirt right on the bed, and it will be ready to wear in less than a minute. It's fast, versatile and stores easily. All steam irons should be this talented! There are plenty of great features to this convenient appliance: it not only heats up in one minute, it has a smooth, non-stick surface, fingertip adjustment for a wide variety of fabrics and a surge of instant steam for stubborn wrinkles. Thanks to advanced circuitry in the base and in the iron, the unit recharges in 5 to 10 seconds—and the cord is stored neatly away in the power base.