"Goomba38" > wrote in message
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> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>> Poor Julie! What a mess to deal with. We don't currently have a garbage
>> disposal because we're on a septic system and having one is ill advised.
>> However, I have had In-Sink-Erator units in the last 4 houses I've lived
>> in and never had a clogging problem. There was very little we didn't
>> grind up in it, including small bones, corn cobs...really tough stuff.
>> In 3 of those houses the plumbing was new, the 4th house was older.
>> However, I attribute it to the particular units we had. If the grinding
>> mechanism is doing a good job, there's no really good reason for the
>> drain to clog. Unless, of couse, the drains have a lot of build up in
>> them and it makes passing anything but liquid difficult to get through.
>>
> Why would you *want* to put corn cobs and bones in the disposal though?
> Tossing them into the garbage would be a lot easier and use less water and
> energy (and save that noise) than using the disposal for them.
> I have a heavy duty InSink-Erator and yet when it makes more sense to just
> scrape things into the trash or composter, that is what I do. And I do use
> my disposal often enough. I am just stunned by the things you and Julie
> write about here...?

Mine is an Insinkerator. Old one was and so is the new one.