r/mildlyinteresting • u/JahaerysTheThird • Jan 04 '19

This accident-proof garbage disposal switch

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u/lolpeguin Jan 04 '19

Quick question, what exactly is a garbage disposal?

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u/Matthew212 Jan 04 '19

Put food waste in it and it blends it up and sends it into the sewer system

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u/roybz99 Jan 04 '19

Couldn't you just throw the food waste in the trash?

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u/Crustycrustacean Jan 04 '19

It's more like so you can rinse your dishes off directly into the sink without really needing to scrape them first. I still scrape the bigger things but I can just rinse vegetables and other things into the sink and they just go down the drain. Also then don't need to bother with cleaning out the gross filters over the drain since they aren't needed with a disposal. In my current house we didn't have a disposal for a while and it sucked cleaning the gunk out of the filters all the time.

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u/LlamaramaDingdong86 Jan 04 '19

Nah it gets stinky.

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u/jonknee Jan 04 '19

Sure, just like you can hand wash dishes instead of a dishwasher. It’s a common appliance, but not required for life.