5 Things You Should Never Put Down Your Garbage Disposal
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2023
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“Renames video: Foods you can compost”
I used to work for a sewer repair contractor. We’d send the camera down there and see pipes almost completely clogged with grease. In fact, you could tell which houses put grease down the drain vs those that didn’t
starches like rice, bread, pasta or potatoes
oil or grease
egg shells
coffee grounds
carrot or potato skins
and obviously things like wood, glass, or soft fleshy parts of your body
Happy I watched this……….was just going to stick my fingers in it
I was told you shouldn’t stick you feet into a garbage disposal either, which really surprised me.
So, basically, don't use the disposal.
Most of these are fine *_in moderation_*. Throw the big clump of peels in the compost, but the few left behind aren't going to cause any issues. Ditto small amounts of _cooked_ starches, etc.
Dumping huge amounts of most things in at once will cause many issues.
#6: Corn husks -- learned that years ago. Living in NJ, I used to eat Jersey Fresh corn every summer (now I don't eat corn, as it's indigestible in my stomach). Those corn husks DO not go in the disposal. Same reason as veggie peels.
Here is my list, anything small round and hard like un-popped popcorn seeds,
Our town has asked us NOT to use disposals at all to prevent sewer issues. All of the houses in my neighborhood have them, and I think most homeowners ignore the request. But I have stopped using mine and put waste into the trash. Even better, I am more conscious about waste and try to reduce it. This is something CU should look at.
I never throw anything down my drains. It all goes in the trash.
What can you safely put down a garbage disposal?
Realistically anything food related, just not large amounts of oil (oil shouldn’t go down any drain). Get the model of disposal that suits your needs. The video is poorly researched, especially the part about peels, the gates on a disposal only let particles of a certain size through, starting size of waste is irrelevant.
Okay, then just throw everything in the trash, right?? What CAN you put in your disposal is the question...
So what’s the point in spending all that money on a garbage disposal. It’s against code where I live and we just put food waste into our compost bin which gets picked up every week. We have a compostable bag in the bin to keep it clean and we never have to worry about what’s good or bad. To me, it seems that most food waste can’t go into these things anyway so, again, what’s the point?
When you just stuck a stick of celery down the garbage disposal for fun and it starts making bad noises and your mom is doming home and is going to see that her kid has broken the garbage disposal! Haha, funny funny, am I righ- SOMEONE F*CKING HELP ME PLEASEE!
What a bunch of bull. Here is my list, anything small round and hard like un-popped popcorn seeds,
Its a waste investment…
Years ago I accidentally dropped a beta fish down the garbage disposal. Somebody fished it out (no pun intended)
The poor fish must have been so rattled because after the person got it out, it pooped in their hand and died.