What is "ok" to put through a sink disposal?

One can hope you got the good stuff out before downloading.

A LOT of the bulk of poop is dead bacteria. If you consider the size of an individual bacterium and the size of a granule of food that’s been chopped by a disposal, one’s about a thousand times larger than the other.

Food that’s been ground up by a disposal isn’t that different from food that’s been ground up by your teeth.

Except for severe digestive issues, or a new model of garbage disposal that comes equipped with a vat of acid, poop should be significantly more well processed than that.

Since around 1970, when my dad purchased a disposal, (we also had a trash compactor and microwave - my dad loved gadgets) every place I’ve lived (except one apartment in graduate school) has had a garbage disposal. I’ve always fed it food scraps. As I mentioned in an earlier post the only clogs I’ve had were banana peels (which clogged the actual disposal) and raw shrimp shells (which got past the disposal unchopped and clogged the outlet).

I’m ignoring the occasional fork or other utensil which fell in and jammed the disposal.

In a fun coincidence I just got a text from my ex-wife that may win the thread. My ex-mother in law, who I adore, grew up on a farm in Iowa. She’s 91 and lives on her own just fine. Her cat brought a near dead mouse into her condo. She stomped on it to make sure it was dead and the disposed of it by…well I am sure you can guess.