HELP, I'm an IDIOT, I poured Metamucil down my garbage disposal!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But egg shells are great for your disposal ?

No they are not. Bones, egg shells, seeds/pits, celery, pasta and potato peels are the worst. Even grease is supposedly bad, but who can avoid a little? I think why some people luck out is that they run a boatload of water with these items, which is bad for it's own reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like this thread is revived every time someone pours Metamucil down the drain. I cannot believe so many people had this same strange idea. Is there a particular genetic sequence that makes someone more likely to do this? Why on earth wouldn't you just toss it out like regular people do? We haven't even heard from the people who are trying to flush it down the toilet. That's got to be a whole lot of fun.

Ditto. The kind of person who takes a Viagra, gets it stuck in their throat, then wakes up with a stiff neck the next day.

Wait, that's a thing?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But egg shells are great for your disposal ?

No they are not. Bones, egg shells, seeds/pits, celery, pasta and potato peels are the worst. Even grease is supposedly bad, but who can avoid a little? I think why some people luck out is that they run a boatload of water with these items, which is bad for it's own reasons.

Grease is the worst. My dad was a plumber....don't think it is Ok, it isn't!

Google the giant blob in the London sewer and you can see why for yourself...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting advice. I am 52 and have been putting potato peels and rice down my disposal for over 40 years. Never had a problem with disposals in my parents house, plus 3 other residences.

+1, except I'm 49.

Plenty of potato peels, rice, and other starches have made it through my disposal without incident. You better believe I run that thing for a full minute and run the water for a full minute after that. I'm not stupid.

Grease should never go down the drain. Now that we don't have coffee cans anymore, I pour hot grease into a paper towel lined glass bowl and toss out the paper towels when it has cooled down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But egg shells are great for your disposal ?

No they are not. Bones, egg shells, seeds/pits, celery, pasta and potato peels are the worst. Even grease is supposedly bad, but who can avoid a little? I think why some people luck out is that they run a boatload of water with these items, which is bad for it's own reasons.

Grease is the worst. My dad was a plumber....don't think it is Ok, it isn't!

Google the giant blob in the London sewer and you can see why for yourself...

DH talks about this fatberg all the time. He is in awe of it.

[Anonymous]

I just did this. So dumb.

[Anonymous]

Sink is completely clogged, garbage disposal broken.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t Metamucil supposed to clear blocked pipes?

[Anonymous]

When we had our garbage disposal put in (yes I got a plumber to do it bc I’m not handy at all and neither is DH), the plumber said don’t put anything down the drain unless it’s something that can be washed down easily or it will clog the pipes. He said the absolute worst stuff to put down the drain is: grease/oil, Drano/liquid plumber, rice, shrimp tails, coffee grounds, any peels or rinds or any fibrous vegetables (broccoli he specifically mentioned) or anything that expands in water like pasta or even he also mentioned cheerios! I was thinking so what’s the point of even having a disposal and we scrape all food into the trash or compost now and really all that goes down the drain is a few tiny crumbs or liquids.

[Anonymous]

Good god, imagine what that stuff does to a human!

[Anonymous]

This is why I specifically requested not to have a disposal put in. I'm European and put things in the trash or the compost, where they belong.

Good luck to all the blocked disposals out there.

[Anonymous]

*Old thread alert*
It's interesting how this thread is revived every few years when history repeats itself across generations.

[Anonymous]

(I did this with couscous......it was a nightmare.....we had to snake the drain...)

[Anonymous]

Don't ever use a broom on a dispsoal. The leverage will crack the housing. I cant beleive an idiot would suggest it and that another idiot would endorse it.

Use a plunger. You just need to push the clog out of the 2 inch line and into the 4 inch line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like this thread is revived every time someone pours Metamucil down the drain. I cannot believe so many people had this same strange idea. Is there a particular genetic sequence that makes someone more likely to do this? Why on earth wouldn't you just toss it out like regular people do? We haven't even heard from the people who are trying to flush it down the toilet. That's got to be a whole lot of fun.

Ditto. The kind of person who takes a Viagra, gets it stuck in their throat, then wakes up with a stiff neck the next day.

Wait, that's a thing?!