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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Nov 2, 2018 18:15:18 GMT
We have one, I could go without it though.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Nov 2, 2018 18:21:46 GMT
It seems safer to me to have one than to risk food down the drain without one. I might put a strainer in the sink and FORBID the kids from moving it.
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Post by aprilfay21 on Nov 2, 2018 18:23:09 GMT
I couldn't live without a disposal, I don't think. We haven't had a dishwasher in over 10 years, but we replaced our disposal the second it broke. lol
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Post by Merge on Nov 2, 2018 18:38:14 GMT
We’ve always had a disposal. I’ve broken two of them, both on Thanksgiving, both with too many potato peels.
If you keep the potato peels out, you won’t have a problem. 😂
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Post by cmpeter on Nov 2, 2018 18:56:32 GMT
We have one and have septic. For that reason we only put down the little tiny bits that a drain strainer might catch. But. It’s great not to have to worry about those little bits. Anything bigger goes into our yard waste bin.
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Post by snugglebutter on Nov 2, 2018 19:02:59 GMT
I grew up without one (rural/septic) and I MUCH prefer having one.
I think if there are problems with kids putting the wrong stuff in there, you might have problems with the wrong stuff going down the drain too.
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Post by mustlovecats on Nov 2, 2018 19:05:32 GMT
I’ve had a disposal in this house since we bought it. I think it’s original, 30 years this year. Had it serviced once because it stopped spinning. We just use it to break up bits of things that come off the dishes when washing. I think I wouldn’t want to not have that - our work sink doesn’t have one and I wish it did. How difficult is it to scrape the stuff into organic compost container than down a sink. REMEMBER that everything that goes down a sink has to be somehow filtered with water when the water is being treated to re-use. Better for the environment to recycle and to compost. We don’t have a place to compost on our 0.042 acre lot, nor city collection of compost materials. So, there goes that.
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Post by Mystie on Nov 2, 2018 19:14:21 GMT
I cant believe you asked this jeremysgirl because I was just thinking last night I needed to come here and ask. I'm in the beginning stages of thinking about a kitchen remodel, and I was wondering if I should have the disposal reinstalled when we put in a new sink. I don't seem to use it as often as I used to, and it gets mildewy and stinky way too often, even when I run cleaner or lemons through it. Unfortunately, this thread doesn't seem to be decisive. I think the main thing that would be a pain about NOT having one would be when I need to throw away a large quantity of something liquidy, as when I had to toss out a batch of lentil soup that got left on the counter for hours. I don't really want to put that in the garbage can, and it was so simple to just run it all down the disposal. But those problems don't arise too often, I guess.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Nov 2, 2018 19:18:19 GMT
Well Mystie we've got a bunch of opinions to consider! I often think my children must just be a bunch of wild hooligans! Lol! Mischief makers...all 5 of them...
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Post by schizo319 on Nov 2, 2018 19:21:58 GMT
I've never lived somewhere that had a garbage disposal and we do just fine without one. With the kids, I'd just make sure you have some kind of strainer in the sink (I like the ones made of screen - you can pick them up at the dollar store for a couple bucks - and throw them in the dishwasher if they get funky)
I do have a compost bucket for kitchen scraps that gets emptied into a compost bin outside when necessary.
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Post by scrapmaven on Nov 2, 2018 19:23:55 GMT
Years ago my mil remodeled her kitchen and refused to put in a garbage disposal. We're still scratching our heads. Maybe you need a better disposal, but get one. They're so convenient. If you only have 24 hours in a day why spend them washing dishes?
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Post by alexa11 on Nov 2, 2018 19:26:01 GMT
I have to have one!
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Post by likescarrots on Nov 2, 2018 19:42:19 GMT
Yes, we have one and I like having one. We don't really put anything substantial down it but I still find it useful and less likely to clog (or at least more easily fixable-just turn it on for 5 seconds) than a regular drain.
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Nov 2, 2018 19:43:17 GMT
We don’t have one now but when we did I liked it. I wish we had one again.
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Post by leannec on Nov 2, 2018 21:30:03 GMT
I love ours ... when it broke down a couple of years ago I was totally lost ... the garbage was smelly and gross We got it fixed ASAP When we are on vacation that is the one thing I really miss in the condo we stay in
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Post by iluvpink on Nov 2, 2018 21:34:12 GMT
I've always had one (except maybe in our first few crappy apartments, I can't remember). I don't put much down it as it's not good for your plumbing, but I like not having to clean out a strainer. For some reason that really makes me want to gag.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Nov 2, 2018 21:41:44 GMT
I've never not had one. The kitchen sinks at work don't have disposals and it's a mess on a daily basis. I can't imagine not having one, but I've never had one break ever. I had one installed because dh leaves food in the sink ALL.THE.TIME. So I was hoping a garbage disposal would help with that. Nope, it didn't
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Post by huskermom98 on Nov 2, 2018 21:46:02 GMT
I wouldn't want to be without one. We don't put a lot down ours, but it's so much easier when stuff can just go down the disposal instead of cleaning out a strainer. We are carefully about what goes down because DH spent one holiday helping my stepfather disassemble, clean, and reassemble theirs after it stopped working when he tried to send fresh spinach stems through the disposal (the stems just wound themselves around the base of the blade instead of getting chopped up).
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Post by littlemama on Nov 2, 2018 21:46:31 GMT
I could not live without a garbage disposal. When we replaced ours, we got a much higher hp- we refer to it as being powerful enough to grind up a human femur, but we are sick people. Lol
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Post by christine58 on Nov 2, 2018 21:46:47 GMT
It's against code because of the septic system Same here...had one once in an apartment...barely used it.
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Post by JoP on Nov 2, 2018 21:48:19 GMT
I’ve never had one, but I’m in the UK and they’re not the norm here
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Post by maryannscraps on Nov 2, 2018 22:18:04 GMT
We’ve always had a disposal. I’ve broken two of them, both on Thanksgiving, both with too many potato peels. If you keep the potato peels out, you won’t have a problem. 😂 That's funny! When I was a kid, my mom broke ours on Thanksgiving with potato peels. It must be a thing.
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Post by calgaryscrapper on Nov 2, 2018 23:10:53 GMT
We have a disposal and used it for years. Summer and winter we put potato peelings etc into our compost in the back yard. A few years ago our city went to water meters and charge as to your water usage. You pay for every drop of water that comes in then you also pay for it to go out. We compost into a bag in a small bin in the house then in a green bin in the lane. We pay $6.50 per month for this. Many of the branches etc also go into this bin.
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Post by MZF on Nov 2, 2018 23:12:33 GMT
I've always had a garbage disposal, so I vote for one.
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Post by johnnysmom on Nov 2, 2018 23:31:05 GMT
We’ve always had a disposal. I’ve broken two of them, both on Thanksgiving, both with too many potato peels. If you keep the potato peels out, you won’t have a problem. 😂 That's funny! When I was a kid, my mom broke ours on Thanksgiving with potato peels. It must be a thing. Leave me a spot on this bench..... fortunately I learned after the first time that potato peels don't go in the garbage disposal on Thanksgiving (or any other day, I guess, but since plumber are more expensive on Thanksgiving certainly avoid that day ) As for disposal or not, I say yes. Without it what do you do with the leftover cereal left in milk and soup and stuff?
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Post by Rhondito on Nov 3, 2018 0:22:53 GMT
That's funny! When I was a kid, my mom broke ours on Thanksgiving with potato peels. It must be a thing. Leave me a spot on this bench..... fortunately I learned after the first time that potato peels don't go in the garbage disposal on Thanksgiving (or any other day, I guess, but since plumber are more expensive on Thanksgiving certainly avoid that day ) As for disposal or not, I say yes. Without it what do you do with the leftover cereal left in milk and soup and stuff? Only time I've ever stopped mine up was when I put 5 lbs worth of potato peelings down mine. That was a mess! After lots and lots and lots and lots of plunging I finally got it cleared though!
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Post by idahopea on Nov 3, 2018 0:24:17 GMT
Did you try to fix it with the special key thing? I think they are designed to freeze up if something too hard is in there. I've fixed ours a couple of times with the tool.
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Post by hop2 on Nov 3, 2018 0:24:45 GMT
Verify that your town allows them. Ours does not.
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Post by maryannscraps on Nov 3, 2018 12:39:17 GMT
That's funny! When I was a kid, my mom broke ours on Thanksgiving with potato peels. It must be a thing. Leave me a spot on this bench..... fortunately I learned after the first time that potato peels don't go in the garbage disposal on Thanksgiving (or any other day, I guess, but since plumber are more expensive on Thanksgiving certainly avoid that day ) As for disposal or not, I say yes. Without it what do you do with the leftover cereal left in milk and soup and stuff?Just strain it and dump the solid stuff into either the trash or the compost bin. Meat and dairy go in the trash, anything else into the compost. I usually just use a knife against the bowl to strain most things. If there are a few escapees, the strainer catches them. I put the strainer through the dishwasher when I run it. My sink is never messy or full of food. My trash is a lot more smelly from the cat box than any scrapings from dinner. It's really not a big deal. When the disposals first came out that were supposed to be compatible with septic tanks, my town allowed them for a few years. Then the data showed it was damaging to the septic systems and they don't allow them anymore by code. We never bothered to get one.
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Post by kelly8875 on Nov 3, 2018 13:15:28 GMT
I didn’t grow up with one, but the last two houses have had one. We don’t use it for much though. The small bits that come off plates and that’s pretty much it. Or the remaining pieces of wet cat food we rinse from the can before tossing into recycling.
BF used to try and use it for a lot and I got after him. He stopped that. Apparently his house growing up used it for lots of scraps, and they always had to fix it...duh. It’s funny because about a month ago he had to fix his moms for her because they still use it for everything.
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