Is a kitchen sink garbage disposal outdated?

[Anonymous]

The main thing we use our disposal for is grinding up the food off of our plates, but especially cereal. It's hard to separate the last few cheerios and then put them in the trash. Much simpler to throw it down the disposal.

I would never live without one if it was an option to have one.

[Anonymous]

Our plumber told us the main thing you need to do to keep the disposal clean is run the water for a minute or two to clear the sink. We've never had trouble with ours (except when glass made it in, but we removed it).

[Anonymous]

I’ve never had trouble with the disposal in my house or a rental unit. The only issue I’ve ever had was teaching tenants to run the disposal before running the dishwasher, and explaining that you can’t put oil from meat and certain other things down there. Nobody had an issue following those directions.

[Anonymous]

Having a car sounds outdated with the same criteria. Wouldn’t want to live without either one.

[Anonymous]

Egg shells are fine. It’s the rough raw stuff that can give problems (raw potato, celery). If you need to run it with something like that (ideally you wouldn’t) then add ice cubes. Ice cubes are also great to clean it.

[Anonymous]

Only on DCUM would someone worry about whether or not garbage disposals are on trend. I’m surprised OP didn’t ask if not using them is classy.

[Anonymous]

very bad for septic systems

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought rice was the worst thing.

Anyway, we don't use ours to get rid of mounds of food, just to grind up the little bits that inevitably find their way in there

Same.