I’ll be damned. Didn’t think throwing a peach pit in a disposal would be good for it, but what do I know…
It saves you going back and forth to scrape, then wash.
Because placing celery stalks in it and watching them spin is way more entertaining than putting them in the garbage.
As Cutter John once said, “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”
The purpose of our garbage disposal was to fill the septic tank with more solid waste. It has since been replaced with a proper drain.
It’s the only good way to get rid of soups and stews or the liquid off a roast. Anytime you have a lot of waste solids within a lot of liquid.
Right. In our kitchen, that’s actually quite a distance, due to the fact there is no convenient place near the sink to put a garbage can.
My aunt has a compost bucket right next to the sink, lined with one of those green biodegradable bags (kind of rubbery), with a matching lid to prevent smelliness. She has a green garbage bin outside for yard and kitchen waste where the full bags go.
From here: "In-Sink-Erator originated from an innovative approach to a classic inconvenience. In 1927, John W. Hammes invented the first food waste disposer in his basement workshop. As the story goes, Hammes was inspired to create a more convenient way to dispose of food waste after he saw his wife wrapping food scraps in newspaper before throwing them into the waste can. Standing over the sink, he envisioned a means of shredding food scraps into tiny pieces, so that they could be carried away through the drain. "
After World War II, popularity of garbage disposals grew, local codes were changed to accommodate them. WAG they were marketed in the 50s and early 60s as a “modern convenience every householder should have”. Another WAG, as populations became more urban and suburban, disposing of food waste in the trash must have seemed a less practical and/or appealing a prospect.
Before we bought our house, we lived in two apartments, neither of which had garbage disposals in the kitchen sinks, and personally I’d rather have one than not have one.
Yep. Or if you’ve had, say, a bowlful of soup and left it half-eaten. Who wants a trash bag full of sloshy stuff, that might (hell, WILL) spring a leak.
We don’t have a good place to compost stuff. Most of what we put down the disposal wouldn’t get too smelly so that’s not an issue.
It’s just easier to do dishes when we can rinse / scrape into the sink versus the trash can.
I’m not stalking you; I promise. I just remembered there having been an earlier discussion, so I looked up garbage disposals, and that old thread turned up.
Pro disposal here. I have a compost pail under the sink, but I love not having to scrape little scraps of this-or-that out of the sink, and I like not having to smell that nasty whatever-it-was I found in the back of the fridge.
Large vegetable scraps go in the compost. Large meat scraps get taken to the trash pail in the garage. Small food scraps go down the sink. And the kitchen trash can rarely smells bad.