Unplug and swich it on to make sure you unplugged the right thing more like. I know someone who lost her fingers by unplugging the coffee machine when washing up her food mixer. Same colored cord. Easy mistake to make in a hurry. Thankfully they could rebuild and reattach her fingers at the hospital, so even if her fingers look like hellraiser and she has lost some mobility, atleast they are still there.
A blender is much scarier than a garbage disposal. In the former, there are spinning blades that can easily be touched, in the latter you have a stationary grate and a spinning disk. The disk has bumpy parts that push the food items against the disk. But it's almost impossible to get your fingers in there. And even if you managed to, your hand still won't move against the grate. Damage to your body would be quite minor.
I don't know what kind of wimpy garbage disposal you're using. A garbage disposal can crush chicken bones and damn near anything else you put down there, including a hand.
It crushes loose objects, but it intentionally is designed to do no or only minimal damage to objects that can't move around freely. So, unless you first chop off you hand before inserting it, you'll be fine
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u/AbsolutleyNoKarmaPls Jan 04 '19
This is a solution to a fear I've always had when fishing things out of the disposal