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Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1966
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 11:33 am: |     |
What can you and can you not put down an in-sink garbage disposal?
I hear egg shells don't decompose so they are not suitable. But they can be broken down small, so is that so bad?
Banana peels have lots of fiber and might clog the mechanism or a drain. So generally I'm putting these in the trash.
What else?
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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optimyst
Citizen
Username: Optimyst
Post Number: 68
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 11:50 am: | |
Egg shells are fine .... I generally don't put banana peels or celery stalks, etc, because the fibers do jam the mechanism sometimes.
Also, potato peels are okay, but not stuffed in.
It is my own experience, and a plumber telling me that a leading cause of disposal problem is putting too much in at once ....
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Richard O'Connor
Citizen
Username: Roconn
Post Number: 145
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 12:21 pm: | |
Tom,
I put almost everything down the two I have (don't ask) ... small bones, celery, etc. Basically if it is food waste it 'can' go down the unit. There are a whole bunch of caveats to this regarding type and size of unit but aside from 'large/hard bones' if its wet food waste its going down the drain.
The big key is ... lots of running water with the food going in and not packing it full of food either way ....
With batch feed you stuff a bit in, run it and stuff some more, with continuous feed you run water and push bits in till its gone ....
Richard (ROC)
--Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.--
--AIM: ROConn |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4518
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 12:34 pm: | |
Richard, whose Bones? 
I think there might be story there. |
jem
Citizen
Username: Jem
Post Number: 892
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 1:08 pm: | |
We've had disposal clogging problems with fibrous vegetable waste, i.e., celery, artichoke leaves, fennel stalks. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 647
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 1:33 pm: | |
I would stick the entire Sunday paper down that thing if the hole was big enough. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 466
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 3:27 pm: | |
No lobster shells. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 467
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 3:28 pm: | |
If you ever jam it, use a broom handle to turn the mechanism. Almost always works, and people will think you're a genius. Leverage. |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 357
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 4:21 pm: | |
There is one thing I know: never, ever try and dispose of pumpkin innards in your insinkerator. Trust me on this one. |
clkelley
Citizen
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 77
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 4:29 pm: | |
Hey, I put pumpkin innards in mine lots of times with no trouble! What happened, amandacat? Maybe I've just been lucky. I always take out the seeds and roast them, does that make a difference?
However, I have found that beer bottle caps have an irresistable urge to find their way into the insinkerator. Luckily, I know how to clear a jam. :-) Tea bags also like to jump down there. |
Crazyguggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 510
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 4:34 pm: | |
yes, I always thought that N Sync was garbage.
Call me crazy |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 358
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 5:21 pm: | |
CLkelly, either you've been very lucky, or we've been very unlucky! Our first Halloween in the house we had a major mess on our hands when the stringy innards of our rather large jack-o-lantern somehow went through the insinkerator without being fully pulverized, stopping up the pipes further along in the system. This caused water to back up in our waste pipe (or something like that, my husband's the one who understands what happened better than I do), leaking all over our basement floor. It was pretty gross. |
clkelley
Citizen
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 78
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 6:36 pm: | |
Yeeesh. No more pumpkins down the drain in our household.  |
NCJanow(akaLibraryLady)
Citizen
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 1197
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 9:01 pm: | |
CLkelly.. are teabags a non-no? Lately I've been putting them down the chute.
Large quantites of onion skins cause me a lot of problems. The sink seems to clog up on me during every Jewish holiday. (lots of fat and grease, I guess.)
NCJ aka LibraryLady
On a coffee break..or something like it. |
clkelley
Citizen
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 79
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 9:07 am: | |
I've had clogs from teabags. I never put them down intentionally, they just seem to end up in there. My husband is always after me to put my used teabag on a plate or right into the trash rather than into the sink, but I'm lazy I guess.
It might depend on the brand; they probably have different materials for the cover. I use many, many brands of tea though, and I really can't tell you which kind has caused the clogs. |
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