Kitchen

[mspatmac]

Curious as to why folks choose not to use a garbage disposal.  I do use mine so virtually no wet garbage.

[LizzieInSRQ]

I use my disposal for onion skin, egg shells, scrapings from dinner plates etc. I hate being without one.  No wet garbage to stink up my kitchen except fir chicken bones tbat i tie up in grocery bags in my garbage. 

How or why , if you have one, do you not use it?

[Desert Lily]

@millieshops  When I had my new house built, I put in a single oversized sink and ditched having a garbage disposal, too.

[Krimpette]

Just read this on Google:

DON’T: “Sharpen” the Blades with Ice or Eggshells

Garbage disposals do not have blades. They have impellers that are not sharp, but blunt. So, putting ice or egg shells down the disposal to sharpen the blades will not do any good. In fact, egg shells are not recommended for the garbage disposal as the membrane can get wrapped around the impellers and cause damage.

[Desertdi]

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@mspatmac wrote:

Curious as to why folks choose not to use a garbage disposal.  I do use mine so virtually no wet garbage.

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@mspatmac    Answer:   "It came with the house -- Don't need it"

[pieman]

I took it right out.

Was so tired of the stinks.

We never used it but man, despite all the lemons we used to  kill the oders coming from it, ewwwwwwwwwwww..

So we took it out,no more ordors,ahhhhhhh.

[Scooby Doo]

I put an enzimatic garbage disposal cleaner in my sink every couple of weeks.  It gets rid of the organizism that cause the stink and slime.  It's cheap, around $5.  Also melts the grease that accumulates in the drain.  I put very little waste down my drain but I wouldn't be without a disposal.

[CherryHugs]

  At home growing up we didnt have one.  There is a very long list of what you shouldnt put in a disposal its just not worth the hassle!

[chickenbutt]

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@CherryHugs wrote:

Hi, there is no tool that came with disposal.  We looked for a button but didnt see one!

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When I had a prob with mine a number of years ago (sorry, I can't even recall the details), somehow I learned that using that tool would allow you to adjust something on the bottom of the unit.

I didn't have that tool either, but I bought on (probably on amazon) and it was very helpful.   I wish I could recall what it was called.  Maybe somebodyy else knows.  It was a kind of small-ish wrench type thing.

[Sooner]

I think it is a wrench--can't remember what kind--that lets you manually turn the blades to get it unstuck.

We put everything down ours and when we replace one, get the biggest and best we can find because of that.  If ours had access to a phone it would call DHS and file an abuse complaint.