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Posted by JoeSpareBedroom on March 31, 2008, 12:47 pm
>I have a 5 yr. old Insinkerator (Badger5) garbage disposal. It still
> turns - but doesn't grind up anything. Is this about the average age
> of a garbage disposal? I will go shopping for one in the next few
> days and would like to know whether to get another one like this or
> switch to something else.


What sorts of things is it NOT grinding? I'm asking because many years ago,
I discovered that a disposal will not handle kale stems, for instance.
Rather, it will spin them into rope strong enough to anchor an ocean liner.
If you've been putting any sort of tough vegetable stems into the disposal,
some of them may have wrapped themselves around the hammers (the parts that
do the grinding). That would prevent any subsequent food from being ground
up properly.

The hammers are easy to feel. They're not sharp, and they're on the bottom
plate of the disposal. Have you inspected them to see if they're covered
with something?



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Posted by Erma1ina on March 31, 2008, 1:18 pm
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>
> >I have a 5 yr. old Insinkerator (Badger5) garbage disposal. It still
> > turns - but doesn't grind up anything. Is this about the average age
> > of a garbage disposal? I will go shopping for one in the next few
> > days and would like to know whether to get another one like this or
> > switch to something else.
>
> What sorts of things is it NOT grinding? I'm asking because many years ago,
> I discovered that a disposal will not handle kale stems, for instance.
> Rather, it will spin them into rope strong enough to anchor an ocean liner.
> If you've been putting any sort of tough vegetable stems into the disposal,
> some of them may have wrapped themselves around the hammers (the parts that
> do the grinding). That would prevent any subsequent food from being ground
> up properly.
>
> The hammers are easy to feel. They're not sharp, and they're on the bottom
> plate of the disposal. Have you inspected them to see if they're covered
> with something?

Along the same line as Joe: Check to be sure those "hammers" that do the
grinding are moving freely.

A few months ago I noticed my Insinkerator sounded a little odd and was
taking forever to grind up stuff. I discovered that one of the hammers
was "frozen" and not moving freely -- a little Liquid Wrench and a bit
of coaxing by tapping on it with a real wrench freed it up and it acts
normally now.

Probably I use my disposal less than average and that may have
contributed to the problem. Now I'm more conscientious about
periodically grinding up some ice cubes to clear it out and keep
everything moving the way it should.

Posted by on March 31, 2008, 4:20 pm
wrote:
[...]

>Probably I use my disposal less than average and that may have
>contributed to the problem. Now I'm more conscientious about
>periodically grinding up some ice cubes to clear it out and keep
>everything moving the way it should.

I hardly use mine at all, since I compost all vegetable and other
table scraps. No meat, no bones, no fat -- these go into the kitchen
garbage for weekly pickup by city.

Practically the only thing that goes down disposal is lemons, which
I use a lot of. They keep the disposal "active" and also disinfect
it.

Aspasia

Posted by on March 31, 2008, 4:21 pm
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:47:12 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"

>>I have a 5 yr. old Insinkerator (Badger5) garbage disposal. It still
>> turns - but doesn't grind up anything. Is this about the average age
>> of a garbage disposal? I will go shopping for one in the next few
>> days and would like to know whether to get another one like this or
>> switch to something else.
>
>
>What sorts of things is it NOT grinding? I'm asking because many years ago,
>I discovered that a disposal will not handle kale stems, for instance.
>Rather, it will spin them into rope strong enough to anchor an ocean liner.
>If you've been putting any sort of tough vegetable stems into the disposal,
>some of them may have wrapped themselves around the hammers (the parts that
>do the grinding). That would prevent any subsequent food from being ground
>up properly.

This takes me back decades to the ultimate nightmare: 13 coming for
Thanksgiving dinner next day - I put CELERY down the disposal.
Will spare you the rest of the nightmare scenario...

Aspasia
>
>The hammers are easy to feel. They're not sharp, and they're on the bottom
>plate of the disposal. Have you inspected them to see if they're covered
>with something?
>


Posted by JoeSpareBedroom on March 31, 2008, 6:10 pm
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:47:12 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
>
>>>I have a 5 yr. old Insinkerator (Badger5) garbage disposal. It still
>>> turns - but doesn't grind up anything. Is this about the average age
>>> of a garbage disposal? I will go shopping for one in the next few
>>> days and would like to know whether to get another one like this or
>>> switch to something else.
>>
>>
>>What sorts of things is it NOT grinding? I'm asking because many years
>>ago,
>>I discovered that a disposal will not handle kale stems, for instance.
>>Rather, it will spin them into rope strong enough to anchor an ocean
>>liner.
>>If you've been putting any sort of tough vegetable stems into the
>>disposal,
>>some of them may have wrapped themselves around the hammers (the parts
>>that
>>do the grinding). That would prevent any subsequent food from being ground
>>up properly.
>
> This takes me back decades to the ultimate nightmare: 13 coming for
> Thanksgiving dinner next day - I put CELERY down the disposal.
> Will spare you the rest of the nightmare scenario...
>
> Aspasia


Amazing, isn't it? But, we know that rope was made from plants at one time.
We know that celery can take forever to chew, and kale stems would need to
be cooked for eleven years to be edible. And still, it takes an incident for
us to learn.



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