If you want the garbage disposal in your sink to work properly, you will avoid putting these things in it.
It has happened to me where an eating utensil somehow fell into the garbage disposal. Perhaps it was shoved in with a variety of vegetable peelings. However it happened, the grinding noise will alert you that something is wrong.
Be careful when you drain out a sink full of sudsy water, as the sponge may slurp down the drain with the water. Garbage disposals have a tough time trying to chew up fabric or sponges.
As you scrape off table scraps from the dinner plates, make sure no bones go down into the garbage grinder. These are just too hard for the blades to cut up.
Somehow onion skins seem to plaster themselves against the sides of the garbage grinder. The blades can't reach them to chop them into pieces that can go down the drain. If the water starts backing up into the sink, it could be onion skins blocking the drain.
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER! You should never use your hand to shove peelings into the garbage disposal as it is running. The risk is too great that you will get the end of a finger chopped off.
If at all possible, composting is the best way to dispose of garbage.
Potato peelings clog mine. Great list
Cute list, thank you! H5!
Nice list of things to keep out of the garbage disposal. I would definitely say that hands and fingers are the number one thing to keep out. I always have problems when I throw potato skins in the garbage disposal and I just don't learn my lesson. My poor husband. Well done list.
A friend e-mailed me and said she read this and agreed with keeping your hands out of it. She had two broken fingers from an encounter with a garbage disposal.
Just wish I had one. We have a septic system and disposals are not recommended. Jealous!
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