Style: Plastic Steam Head
I love everything about My steamer..
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2023 by Dawn Rosselli
Style: Metal Steam Head
This is not a compact unit, but I knew this going in. It does not collapse so you need a place to store this, but it is a great unit. My clothes always look professionally done. I bought the unit with the melal head. I am glad I did because I do use it for collars and to press the underside of the bu
tton plackets on shirts. This unit is sturdy and easy to use. I definitely recommend this unit. It is much easier and quicker than ironing!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2023 by dp
Style: Metal Steam Head
This thing makes laundry a lot easier. The extra cost for the metal head is worth it. Even steamed the couch!
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2023 by 8amfootball
Style: Plastic Steam Head
I don't often write Amazon reviews, but I had to leave some feedback on Jiffy's excellent customer support. When I had a problem with the switch, the Customer Phone # was answered quickly and gave me to a Tech that answered my questions and suggested I could install the switch easily. He then mailed
me a free replacement switch that ended up being a breeze to install. Great experience!
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Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2023 by Michael DeGagne
Style: Plastic Steam Head in Pink
I've had it for a few months and I'd say it good not very good. Wish more steam would come out.
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2023 by Sheila Broussard
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Nothing better: Quality Product that Works well, Forever
Style: Plastic Steam Head
No, I am not an expert in fabric steamers, or even good at basic ironing. I bought this as a gift for my wife several years ago. She asked for a basic little hand-steamer that was advertised on TV. I looked it up and saw the horrendous reviews, decided that with the good reviews on this one, maybe it
would be worth the extra money. Not only was I right, it has exceeded our expectations. This thing is built solid. Everything about it says quality. Nothing has ever failed or broken. No parts need replacing, no filters need changing. You do have to lift the solidly-made plastic water container out of the unit and fill it up with water every now and then (actually not that often, unless you use this thing for literally hours every day I guess). But for a daily touch-up of a shirt or dress, the water lasts a long time without refilling. Its easy to do, too. You lift the big contoured black handle, pull it straight up and out, go to the sink, unscrew the lid, fill it up with tap water, screw it back and put it back in. There is even a little handle on the bottom side to hold it while you are filling it with water--they thought this thing out well! No mess or spills either. Nothing has ever leaked. Yea, it does look a little dated and utilitarian. Who cares? It sits at the ready in the corner behind our refrigerator. You roll it out on the smooth caster wheels, flip the big switch which lights up a pleasing soft green when on, and in seconds you hear a gurgling sound and steam is pumping out of the wand, ready to get to work. The big switch can be easily turned on with your foot without even stooping if you want! The solid aluminum metal clothes hanger holds your garment securely. Just leave the clothes on a hanger, hang it on the rod, and sweep the wand around the fabric to get wrinkles out. No pulling out the squeaky ironing board, setting up a iron, no burning of clothes. Yep, you can burn your skin a little with the very hot steam from the wand if you are lazy and not paying attention--I did it a few times when I started using it, not anymore. Just be careful. Look, I'm a guy. I don't like to iron clothes, or even steam them. But this thing works so easily and takes so little time, I just try to listen to my wife when she tells me I need to iron my shirt. Frankly, this gift keeps on giving for years. She loves it, I love it. It makes us both happy when we use it! ;) Wrinkles fade out like magic when you use it. It actually works, it's easy to do, even kinda fun. It makes me feel good when I use it, cause it makes my wife happy. Seriously, that is worth its weight in gold, isn't it? As the label proudly states, it is made in the USA. Did I mention how easy it is to set this thing up out of the box? A little kid could do it (probably better than us). I've reviewed a lot of other stuff, but for some reason forgot to review this Original Jiffy Steamer when I got it, years ago. If I could give this product 10 stars, I would. There is nothing not to like about it.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2013 by Tim Kimzey
Style: Plastic Steam Head
After borrowing a friend's ConAir steamer, and reading numerous reviews, I purchased this Jiffy from Amazon about a month ago. The Jiffy seems to be better-built than the ConAir, and puts out more steam, more consistantly than the model I borrowed. In the last month, I have steamed everything I can t
hink of in my house, to see how it works. I have been pleased with this product, and here is what I have learned: 1) A steamer is not an iron. While I have read reviews of how you can press creases into clothing, I have not been successful in this (yet). I don't really care about creases, though, and have not spent much time trying. 2) A steamer is a tool. You have to learn how to use it properly to get good results. Steaming from underneath works better than steaming downward into the right side of the fabric. Just like anyone who uses a hammer a few times is almost certainly going to hammer their finger, you will probably burn yourself while you are learning to use a steamer. When I first started using the steamer, I wanted to steam upwards, like I iron. It was counter-inuitive for me, but it works better to steam downwards. 3) Wrinkles really do fall out of fabrics, but this seems to only happen with synthetic fibers or blends with a high percentage of synthetics. If I had trouble ironing it, it will take some work to steam it. However, I always iron in more wrinkles than I take out, so for natural or difficult fabrics, I do a better job with a steamer. Fabrics that I was afraid to iron (too thin/delicate) steam beautifully. Now, about the Jiffy J-2000 specifically: This steamer heats up very quickly, in just two or three minutes. I like to turn it on while I decide what to wear, and by the time I get it all together, it is ready to use. The wattage (1300) is slightly higher than most personal steamer models and makes a big difference in how quickly you can finish a garment. The steamer is very sturdily built. It uses heavy-duty plastics, and comes with a wrench (magnetically attached underneath the steamer body) to secure the parts tightly. The pole that holds the steamer head and clothing is shorter than I would personally like (and the hose is a little shorter, too) and stands about 5 feet. I could not steam all the way to the top of my curtains, while they were mounted to the wall. The water reservoir does not leak, although when you pull it out, some water does remain in the connection area, but not enough to make a mess. The list price on amazon for the steamer was 169.99, quite a deal more than most of the other steamers listed on Amazon. I purchased mine with a special 25$ off through Amazon, so paid 145$. I think that it is worth that price. I would not pay this much for the ConAir model that I borrowed. In a year, I may think the Jiffy is worth the Amazon list price.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2005 by Johnston
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Should've gotten this steamer years ago
Style: Plastic Steam Head
I've got lots of clothes in my closet that I can't bring myself to give away, but I also couldn't bring myself to wear for years because they're wrinkled and ironing is a pain. Got a wild hair a few weeks ago to purchase a steamer, and suddenly I'm wearing all these clothes again lol. It couldn't be
simpler. The machine only takes 1-2 minutes to heat up, and the steamer head is large and easy to use. Not sure how other reviewers are damaging their clothing due to various issues with the steamer head, but it's almost surely operator error. If you take the most basic care of this, it's not gonna scratch/tear/rip/etc your clothes. It's smooth unless you somehow damage it by being careless. Pretty impressive how steam alone can make wrinkles vanish before your eyes...much easier than breaking out the iron, and it makes tricky synthetic fabrics easy to de-wrinkle (ironing cotton is easy, synthetics are harder due to requirement to use lower safe iron temps). My ONLY complaint (not a design flaw) is that it's hard to use when your garment is hanging mid-air on a small stick...you have to use two hands. If it had some type of backer where you could steam without the garment rotating, you could gently tug on the garment while steaming, which results in much more effective and quicker wrinkle release. Again, this isn't a design flaw, just something that could be added. Maybe just use a different hanger which won't rotate on the little vertical stick? But this is just something I'll figure out after a few more uses. Doesn't detract from the steamer at all, as this is a great product. Crazy how much I use this...I actually enjoy the process, I'm looking around my house for things to steam (clothes, curtains, my beard, etc)! Seems pretty bulletproof, so glad I got this over one of the newer plastic devices from other companies.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2022 by munkeePilot
Style: Plastic Steam Head
I love this steamer! I've burned myself a few times, but the steam is powerful, even, fast drying, and makes quick, easy work of steaming my clothes before sorting. It feels much more substantial than my older, inexpensive steamer. I had the Pursteam garment steamer previously. The first died during
the warrantee period. Instead of fixing it, they sent me a replacement. The second died the same way, still within the new warrantee period. Rather than waste the time and materials, creating more electronic waste, I looked for a longer lasting steamer to invest in. After reviewing lots of reviews, I settled on the Jiffy steamer. It's been less than a year, but I'll be updating if there are any issues in the future.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2023 by Maddle
Style: Plastic Steam Head
This review is for us guys who now do the laundry. Following a few swear words, mishaps and ups and downs with the ironing board and iron I saw the "little steamer" advertised. This looked like my salvation, so I ordered the little rascal. It worked surprisingly great and the ironing board found its
way into the basement (the steam iron is still up on a shelf in the laundry room.) Recently my little steamer started spurting hot water and steam all over, so was time to regroup and read all the internet reviews about steam pressing. I ordered the "Jiffy Steamer J-2000 Residential Series 1300-Watt Garment Steamer from Amazon.com. I had my four pair of golf shorts and 4 polo shirts, from my four days of golf, available when the steamer arrived. I filled the water container with distilled water, turned it on and in less time than my little steamer was perking, steam was pumping out, and no spurting of hot steam water. My shorts and shirts were on hanger's right out of the dryer, so ready for the chore of pressing out wrinkles and folds, but hold on, this was actually fun and no chore. The wrinkles seemed to melt away with all the hot steam and each shirt was done in about 2 minutes. I had the shorts hung by the waist band so was simple to steam out any wrinkles and looked better than my ironing used to look. My "ironing" duties were completed in less than 30 minutes. Now the question for you guys who also have the ironing duties, would you rather spend more time on the golf course or in the laundry room? Also, as I said before, it is actually enjoyable to see the results in a short period of time and "no hassles" with an ironing board, lol. For the new-comers, yes, the little steamer works great, but would I switch back? - can I drive the ball 300 yards? - Answer is no. The occassional spurting of hot water from the little steamer was of course a nuisance, but tolerable, and naturally it could not be turned upside down. I now steam clothing from the inside, both the shirts and pants. With the legs hanging down it is easy to insert the steam nozzle and run it up and down. I might add this nozzle gets very hot, so be cautious. Also, the max for the little steamer was about 20 or 30 minutes and with my Jiffy Steamer, an hour is no problem. I might add I am 82 years of age, so you young'uns should easily outperform me. I steamed our mattress last week, so bye-bye any bedbugs. Feel like getting on the good side of your "significant other"? - steam some of her clothes and put a smile on her face (I now also steam my wife's PJ's so she looks gorgeous morning, noon and night.) So there you have it guys, would you rather sweat and swear over the ironing board, or sing along with your favorite CD. Also have extra time now on the golf course, wearing wrinkle-free golf clothes? Oh, would I recommend this Jiffy steamer? - as we say out here - "Yes, yes, yes, in a NY second." Jiffy Steamer J-2000 Residential Series 1300-Watt Garment Steamer
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Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2012 by Ronald Yedloutschnig
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Change the way you iron with this steamer
Style: Plastic Steam Head
About 3 months ago, I developed the most painful tendonitis in my elbow. It was hard to bend my arm up and down without wincing in pain. I went to my doctor who diagnosed tennis elbow caused by poor positioning while using the computer. I was told not to do any heavy lifting with my dominant arm, inc
luding ironing. Eventually, I had a big pile of ironing in the laundry room and found there were items I wanted to wear but couldn't as they were so wrinkled. That's when I decided to invest in a steamer. I read a lot of product reviews on Amazon and a couple of other sites and found that the most consistently, highly-rated steamer by consumers was this Jiffy Steamer J-2000. It was easy to assemble from the box and I was up and running in 10 minutes. The Jiffy J-2000 makes a lot of steam. The nozzle gets really hot and the steam can really cause serious burns if you are not careful. There is a metal bolt on the base unit that is like touching a hot stove if you accidentally brush against it. Be careful if you have small children or pets around while using it. As for the wrinkle removal, I am quite happy with the results and I am a real stickler for neatness in my clothing. Obviously, it works best on knit fabrics or silks and polyesters. But I got acceptable results on linen and cotton. You will not get the crisp look of a freshly ironed cotton shirt, but most people are wearing much more casual clothes today for which the steamer is fine. I have been using my non-dominate arm to do most of the work for now and so I imagine that I will get even better results once I can use my right arm again. As I stated earlier, the steam is quite hot and it is easy to burn your fingers if you are not careful. I remembered that I had a heat resistent glove that came with my hair curler and so I wear that on the hand that is holding the fabric taut while I steam. That helps a lot! I find it works the best to hold the fabric tight while slowly pulling the steam head down the fabric from the wrong side of the garment. You get much better results with tension than when you just point the nozzle at the garment and expect the wrinkles to just fall out. I would highly recommend that the Jiffy company seriously consider enclosing one heat resistant glove in the box with the steamer. It's a real burn saver for the fingers. Amazon sells the one I got with my Enzo curling iron ENZO MILANO Heat Resistant Glove Black (1 Glove) for about $18. Definitely consider this investment if you use your steamer a lot. It's thin enough to use your fingers with dexterity. Sally Hansen also sells a cheaper glove, but I don't know just how heat resistant it is. Sally Heat Resistant Glove I highly recommend this model. While not perfect, it's definitely changed the way I do laundry for the better and it's really great for those last minute touch ups for a special occasion outfit.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2012 by L. Stern
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Wrinkle eraser — wish I bought this 20 years ago
Style: Plastic Steam Head
Unbelievably effective and easy to use. Not cheap nor easy to store but we use it all the time. And the money we save at the dry cleaner for pressing is eating into the price. Big big fan.
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2023 by S. Cole
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SO quick and easy. I'm in love.
Style: Plastic Steam Head
Quickly: I keep this in a corner of my closet. It is SO EASY to use that I will even break it out to smooth the pocket flaps on one pair of shorts. More Detailed: I don't have a fancy wardrobe because work from home. Ironing is such an effort that I've convinced myself that things look good enough if
I quickly hang them out of the dryer...or that hems and pocket flaps always get a bit twisty and that's just the way it is. No! NO, my brethren! There is a better way and it is this! No, I'm not now steaming casual shorts and socks. But my pocket flaps do now lay flat (I do it using a bath towel as a pad on the floor) and my hems hang straight (same) and while I've got it out I might just do a quick once-over while the item is hanging (handy pole on which to hang stuff). It's quick and does a really nice job. I have the model with the plastic head and do use distilled water. It's true that if you are steaming on the floor it will start to drip back on your clothes so you do have to raise the head every so often so that accumulated water will drain back.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2022 by Stefanie
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Overall pleased with this
Style: Plastic Steam Head
*Edit* I use this in place of my iron. The only difficulty is steamer the bottoms of things and it isn't perfect for pressing cotton pants and cotton items take a little longer. The problem is, you're not able to hold the bottom of an item taught to get out the wrinkles at the bottom. For this reason
, you do really need a board of some sort, which I haven't bought yet. I did burn the crap out of my leg doing something stupid - I had a small wrinkle in a skirt and thought i'd steam it as I ran out the door (with the skirt on). The steamer was only by my leg for a second, but I had serious burns that left a mark that will probably take a least a year to fade out - it's been 3 months and it is healed, but still very visibly a different color. This is a high quality steamer. You can tell it is well made - the materials are sturdy, although the unit itself is fairly compact and takes up much less room in our laundry room than an ironing board. The question I had when I bought this was whether this will replace an iron completely. My best estimate after having this for a week, is that for 95% of my ironing needs, it will. For sharp pressing needs, like a man's shirt collar, I think we'll drag out the iron. When I first tried the steamer, I was a little nervous because it seemed like hardly any steam came out. It is not a heavy steam flow, but a light, but hot flow of steam - watch your fingers, I've burned mine twice. It is a little hard to maneuver the clothes as you steam them - I think the board that you can hang up would be very helpful, so we may get that later. I steam by hanging a garment on a separate clothes rod and hold the bottom of the garment while I steam the entire item, but when you get to the bottom, you have to move your hand to reach the bottom edge of the garment (again, watch your fingers). The water reservoir holds a lot of water, which is very nice. I also liked the fact that the papers that came with the unit say that they test each unit before it ships to you. Overall, I am happy with this purchase. I plan to get many years of use out of it and I think it will save a little time vs. an iron and I don't worry about damaging my clothes with a faulty iron anymore. An added bonus is that I will not worry about burning the house down with this like I did with the iron (steam vs. a hot piece of metal).
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Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2010 by Trista
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Quality Clothes Steamer for a Lifetime
Style: Metal Steam Head in Pink
I gave up ironing years ago, that old method of getting rid of wrinkles isn't practical anymore. I'd been using hand-held steamers but found that I was having to replace them about every two years, depending on how often you use them. With this Jiffy Garment steamer, I'm confident my days of filling
up landfills with the carcasses of inferior hand-held steamers are over! Use distilled water and your steamer should last even longer. The J-2000M heats up within 2 mins and is more than adequate for most everyday clothes/fabrics. There is a higher priced model (J-4000?) that supposedly tackles sturdier fabrics, but that model takes about 12-15 mins to heat-up and in the morning that is too long for me. I decided to go for the "retro" look and got the metal head with wooden handle version (versus the plastic version), and I love it!! Unlike what some other reviewers are saying, the metal part doesn't go near your hand so it shouldn't be an issue. The electrical cord is great (not too long, not too short) and the wheels easily transport the steamer wherever you want it to go. Lastly, the metal hanger pole is great for hanging clothes on, although I'm going to see if Jiffy offers an extension to raise it even higher so I don't have to bend my knees at all to reach around the article of clothing I'm working on -- although I don't have to bend too much (I'm 5'4" tall).
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Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2022 by MoniB.
