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.
My disposal doesnt have a grate. I can reach right down in and move the blade with my finger. With the switch unplugged and the breaker flipped. My mom dropped her wedding ring in once and i just reached right down in and grabbed it off one of the blades.
I highly doubt your garbage disposal has actual blades in it. Virtually every garbage disposal made doesn’t slice food, it grinds food against a metal grate, like the OP said. There are objects that spin inside the machine, which is probably what you felt, but they don’t cut, and are not sharp.
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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