Garbage disposal

On 2011-04-21, Nunya Bidnits wrote:

Don't have a garbage disposal, anymore. Seem to be surviving jes fine
without it. All those years of having one in metro areas made me
forget what NOT having a one is like.

Basically, it's pretty much a none issue. Don't generate enough
leftover organic garbage to need one and jes put what little we do
have in the trash. A few random coffee grounds get washed down the
drain and some small stuff like leftover cold cereal or soup flush jes
as easily as human waste. I remember as a kid, "the ranch" had a 10ft
dia pit where all of this type of food waste was jes tossed in and
shoveled into the soil. Come fishing time, big fat nightcrawlers were
easily harvested.

I doubt I'll ever have another garbage disposal. Now strikes me as
solution to a problem that doesn't exit.

nb
 
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:34:32 -0500, Nunya Bidnits wrote:


They say cold water, but I use hot. This is Texas. The ground and
the pipes are 80+ degrees more often than not. Cold water will just
solidify fats and make them stick, whereas hot water would tend to
make them run out.

That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

-sw
 
On Apr 21, 10:34?am, "Nunya Bidnits" wrote:

I generally run cold unless I'm rinsing an obstinate dirty dish.

You can (allegedly - don't blame me) run ice cubes in your disposal to
sharpen the blades. A plumber told me that. I mostly forget to do
it.

N.
 
notbob wrote:

It's a solution to a real problem, but it's an urban problem only.
Eliminating waste food from the bulk garbage stream in an urban
environment had a large impact on rodent populations and stench in
dumpsters. In rural settings food wastes should normally go in a compost
pile.
 
On Apr 21, 11:34?am, "Nunya Bidnits" wrote:

Cold water. It helps cool the motor, and it will solidify
fats into small globules. Hot water enables the fats
to get downstream in your sewerage and all solidify
in a mass, which collects other particles and creates
clogs.

Info courtesy of Family Handyman magazine.

Cindy Hamilton
 
On Apr 21, 11:59?am, Cindy Hamilton
wrote:

I don't think very many people run the disposal long enough to even
worry about the motor getting hot. The cold water theory on the fat is
good though.
 
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:59:46 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
wrote:


I learned that from a plumber the first week I moved into this house.
The kitchen sink stopped up as soon as the ink was dry on the paper
and the plumber said it was a build up of years of soap and grease in
the pipe that did it.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
On Apr 21, 11:53?am, notbob wrote:

I have to agree. Mine never worked right (came with the house) and I
never replaced it when it finally died.

I am on city sewers and have city water, if that matters.
 
On 4/21/2011 2:59 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

In addition to what you mention, hot water may cause overheating and
actuate the thermal cut-off. I've only done it in a fit of absent
mindedness but it had me worried for a short while.

--


James Silverton, Potomac

I'm "not"
[email protected]
 
On 21/04/2011 5:40 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
How the heck can hot water burn out a motor?
The reason you run water while running thee garbage disposal is to wash
away the grinding so they don't clog your pipes. Using hot water is just
a waste of energy.
 
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:40:09 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:


If your running your GD that long, then you're abusing your GD in the
first place.

The water does not come into contact with the motor, and conduction of
the cold water through the metal would take several minutes for it to
have any effect on the temp of the motor (which would be negligible).

-sw
 
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:18:53 -0700, "Julie Bove"
wrote:


Cold water makes the waste firmer therefore easier to grind... to
clean a garbage disposal it's recommended to run ice cubes through,
not hot water.
 
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