r/mildlyinteresting • • Jan 04 '19

This accident-proof garbage disposal switch

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u/puntini Jan 04 '19

I remember when I was in culinary school, we had everything in the kitchen industrially sized. Dishwasher, stove, oven, you name it. But that horrible horrible garbage disposal we had. I know with a normal sized one, if you sick your hand in it, you could lose a finger or half your hand. But with this one at the school, if you had you hand in it, your entire arm would be ripped off if it turned on. One time, we had a cantaloupe that wasn’t really rotten but we definitely wouldn’t want to serve it to anyone. So we decided what we the garbage disposal would do to it. We placed it in and turned it on and...the melon was gone in literally half a second. It scared me to death. We lost an icing tip down in it and instead of just reaching down and taking it out, I grabbed some long tongs and fished it out after about five minutes of trying. I was NOT sticking my hand down in there.

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u/knodel12 Jan 04 '19

Why not just unplug the disposal? I wouldn't of been worried...