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Avoid Specific Foods in Disposal

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Quick and Simple Tips to Keep Your GARBAGE DISPOSAL Working Like New!

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Avoid putting starchy foods like rice, pasta, bread, or potatoes into the disposal. These items expand and become clumpy when wet, leading to severe clogs. Also, steer clear of coffee grounds, eggshells, and stringy vegetable peels (like banana or apple peels). Eggshells can form a sand-like sediment that accumulates and causes clogs over time. Long, fibrous peels can wrap around the grinding components, leading to jams or motor strain. For those on a septic system, it's generally best to avoid putting any food waste down the disposal and instead use a compost bin for all food scraps.

Goal: Prevent clogs and damage by knowing which food items should never go into your garbage disposal.

Tools and materials

  • Apple Peels
  • Banana Peels
  • Bread
  • Coffee Grounds
  • Eggshells
  • Pasta
  • Potatoes
  • Rice

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Let's talk about what you don't put down your disposal because that's a big one I get asked this question so much like Brian. What should I do? Well, I'm personally on a septic so I don't even use a disposal Everything goes to compost. You want to avoid kitchen drain clogs? Well Don't put certain things down your disposal Let's go with rice One something that swells anything that swells don't put it down there pasta No go Bread I man, I am gonna tell you I unclogged This one Thanksgiving I was on call and I don't know how much stuffing was in that drain But it was a lot of stuffing and I'm gonna tell you like just Hours hours of snaking a drain to get stuffing out All right, it seemed like the whole pan was bad and they were just trying to get rid of it I didn't think it would do that. It did Okay, potatoes. They're very starchy. You grind up potatoes They're gonna act like mashed potatoes and they're just gonna get clumpy and starchy It's going to stop up your drain. Don't do it apple peels like those big things Put them in compost if you're gonna peel for you can tin apples for a pie well Unless you're gonna do it little by little by little and just feed it down there Don't put them in there because I'm gonna tell you you can't just use this thing and think that it's gonna last It might do it for you once it might do it for you 10 times eventually. It's gonna stop up No coffee grounds. No egg shells. You don't want egg shells in there I can't tell you how many times I have snaked out lines because of egg shells They just they do not go down the way you would like them to But Nana peels like you don't want none of that type of stuff But Nana peels super stringy those things are not gonna work out well for you My personal thing I tell people all the time anything you can put in a compost bin. That's what I wouldn't do If you find this video helpful please subscribe click that like button leave me some comments tell me what you think

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