Advice: What you need to know about how to clean and maintain your garbage disposal, including what items you should and should not use it for.
Invented in 1927 by John Hammes, the machine uses blunt impellers to grind food waste and send it to your local wastewater treatment facility, saving you from fishing scraps of food out of your sink after washing dishes and diverting waste from landfills . Here’s what you need to know about how to clean and maintain your garbage disposal.How to properly use your garbage disposal
It all begins with proper usage. The first thing to remember is to use only cold water when running it, which hinders residual fat and grease from building up in the machine. Second, it’s probably not a good idea to run it while your sink is still full of dishes in case a stray fork or spoon should fall down the drain and potentially wreak havoc on the disposal’s insides.
One site of potential smells and other general grossness to be wary of is the baffle, a.k.a. the rubber splash guard. Admittedly, I didn’t even think about it for the seven months I lived in my apartment until this past week, and let’s just say I will never neglect it for that long again. Thankfully, cleaning it is simple enough to do every couple of weeks or so, depending on how much waste you dispose of.
One final consideration is how much waste you should put down the garbage disposal versus in the trash, in terms of the environmental impact. The answer, unfortunately, is that it depends on factors such as whether your community has a sufficient supply of water and what your wastewater system does with waste.
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