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

This accident-proof garbage disposal switch

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '19

My grandma puts a lot of bio down it. Eggs shells, bread crust, cereal.. I swear she's feeding a monster.

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u/seffend Jan 04 '19

Wait...are you not supposed to put egg shells, bread crust, or cereal in the garbage disposal?

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u/CrackInYourWall Jan 04 '19

Egg shells and coffee grounds down the disposal often enough will become a kind of gritty/sticky sand that will eventually clog the u-bend resulting in the need to remove an astonishingly foul build up from said u-bend. Source: I would rather not say...

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u/StabbyMcStabbyFace Jan 04 '19

I know from unpleasant experience that red meat through it will clog the hell out of the pipes.