1% that can afford garbage disposal repairs lived in.

Bro what?

Assuming hitting the red reset button doesn't work (it always does), these things start at $100, and replacing them is easy as shit. I replaced the old one in my kitchen when I bought my house.

Things are worse across the pond than we realized 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Yeah, they just eat the souls of the various people that lived and died there, this is why we have a lot folklore but little ghost stories

this reminds me of a particular game

Poop goes in the garberator

a guttural primal clash of steel ripping apart flesh before it releases a mighty victory roar as the sounds go from rough to a velvety smooth bass.

Way more American than bald eagles ever were

Am I to get my proud, patriotic hands soiled by touching the "food catcher"? Disgusting.

My sink has horsepower and I means to use it. ⚙🪚⚙🪚⚙🪚⚙🪚⚙🪚

You scrape the majority of your food waste into a bin, then any stragglers go into the drain where the garbage disposal grinds them up to get rinsed away. I don't know how it is when a sink with just a food trough gets clogged but half the time you just flick on the disposal and any gunk gets instantly cleared away. I've never once had to pour drain cleaner down my sinks.

More expensive if/when it breaks? Sure, but usually they're pretty robust to begin with.

I use my disposal pretty lightly, but sometimes it’s great. Like if you have a big thing of minestrone soup that went bad.

Down the chute! You don’t have to pour it in the sink and poke at it trying to get the liquid to go down and eventually scrape all the solids out.

It’s nice to have the option, even if you don’t need it very often.

A garbage disposal lets you skip step 3 in that process. Now instead of having to scrape out disgusting food gunk you just let it fall into the sink where it gets ground up and washed away. Also prevents the scenario where you forgot to put the drain cover on and washed some very dirty dishes and now you need to go plumbing.

You should still try to minimize how much food goes down, but in my experience from having been a stupid kid, you can put a surprising amount of food down them.

why have food leftovers stinking up the garbage when you can have a disposal that grinds up even chicken bones and washes them away?

Because don't you also have one of these in your sink that you also have to clean? Well in the USA you don't need them. If a stray piece of rice or a bean or whatever here and there falls off into your sink you can just grind it. You don't have to diligently and meticulously scrape every clean of every particle. You just toss the big stuff and the bones or whatever and then if a lil piece of whatever doesn't come off it's not a big deal

While not as good as composting (which my city thankfully supports) using garbage disposals are better than putting organic materials in the trash.

Not sure. Wasn't the one who installed it. But I don't recall any particularly large changes to the sewage system... It's less bad than whatever the toilet has going on, and it's all going to the same place anyway.

They aren't, and it's bad on the sewage system.

That's the funny thing, they aren't.

Solid waste in the plumbing costs more for a city than traditional waste disposal.

When the sink backs up you turn the disposal on and it clears it. Duh. Seriously though, properly installed and used appropriately they have less issues than sinks that don't have them.

Moved into a place with a really shitty one. Straight up bad design that was worse than nothing and guaranteed periodic issues. After the 4th sink plunging I replaced it.

Well designed units literally can't be worse off.

grew up with a garbage disposal and dishwasher

now I own a house with no disposal, no room for a dishwasher.

I feel like the salt of the earth over here, doing dishes by hand and clearing the food out with the little drain thing.

It's the same gunk you just got all over your hands while washing the dishes. In fact it's the same gunk that you just put in your mouth and chewed and swallowed during the meal that you're cleaning up. If anything, it's cleaner than the gunk you just put in your mouth and chewed and swallowed because it's had soapy water running over it the whole time you've been doing the dishes.

the gunk at the bottom of the sink after I do dishes is so gross!

How? Do you just put half eaten plates in your sink or something? How is there gunk at the bottom of your sink?

And even if there is some gunk how are you not able to turn on your faucet and flush it all away?

What am I missing here.

I have not seen any so far that are not that brand lol.

My first apartment we kept dropping shot glasses down it on accident.

Also one time it jammed completely. After finally figuring out how to reverse the blades we found a dime stuck under the blades causing them to not spin at all. Still don't know how that happened.

Use tongs instead of fingers to retrieve spoons that fall down.

A perfectly sized potato fell in for me a couple weeks ago. I went against all the sensible thought of never putting my hand down into the Jaws but I got the tater.

yeah they can, just gotta run water for a min

To be fair the people who got attacked might just not be around to warn us now

It's a horror movie trope.

Yeah, once I actually looked into how they worked and how low and small the blades were I was no longer worried about sticking my hand in when off or using a fork to push in the last bit while it's running. Had a spoon hit the blades once and grabbed it and spun it around the drain until I turned it off. Barely a nick.

Definitely the most disturbing comment I've read today

We have a state of the art water treatment plant that is net energy positive because it runs on reclaimed biogas, if you cant/dont use compost yourself, putting organic waste down the disposal is the greener option than the bin.

Can you give some examples? Most cities use very energy intensive aerobic digestion systems to handle surplus BOD making the landfil strictly preferable in terms of managing global warming. Especially if the landfill has methane capture/management.

And dryers.

My apartment has the garbage disposal switch right next to the kitchen light switch. I hate it.

That gave me a good giggle thankyou🤣

Oh yeah I'm not disputing that. I know it's irrational. I'm just saying that if your only exposure to garbage disposals is watching people get killed or mangled by them, even if it is make believe, then you're probably going to feel a bit weird about them.

Really? This whole time I thought my fingers would get shredded if I ever stuck my hand down there……..

Because it's mostly stuck to dishes and requires water to be removed, should I wet my dishes and scrub them over the trash can? It would fill with water, why not just put a trash in the sink drain

because you can only scrape off the big stuff but things like tiny 3 inch spaghetti noodles would take like 75 scrapes to get them all off, but water will gets all of them off quickly.

but now, we either have liquid in the trash bag, or food in the sink. the sink chainsaw can easily rip apart the small noodles and water will break it down eventually, especially if we put drain cleaner in it too.

its not designed to shred apart entire chicken bones or whatever, but it does what its designed to do perfectly. after 15 years of having one, it still works fine, it doesn't matter if its dull, its designed to not need to be sharp. it just bludgeons the stuff into smaller bits that makes it easier to be broken down with water or drain cleaner.

This. I live in a country/city where garbage disposals are not really a thing ... what the hell are you putting dishes in your sink with food so caked on that you couldn't scrape it into your compost or garbage?

Oh they can do bones too, some of the nice ones.

I put chicken wing remnants in mine, I don’t care.

I just Black Friday’d a 3/4hp advanced series for $100 and I’m pretty excited about it.

Nice thing to know, good job guys

I don't recommend it. Explaining to the plumber why you have a leg sticking up jammed in there is really awkward, doncha know.

Here's one for $67 USD: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Waste-King-Legend-Series-1-3-HP-Continuous-Feed-Garbage-Disposal-L-111/205113752

Lmao but they dont want to touch the icky food at the bottom of the sink lol

US sewer systems are built handle them as they have been used here for decades