"jay" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:32:48 GMT, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> Do you have one? Do you use it?
>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> You are going to get a lot of opinions. Your personal experience is what
> you should rely on. Anyway.. this is mine:
>
> Use it for minimal scraps that don't scrape to the trash bin. If you want
> to see your plumber.. grind away. The disposer will grind way more stuff
> than the plumbing/pipes can't handle. Clogs will happen. Running corn
> cobs
> through your plumbing system is beyond stupid!

I would not do corn cobs. I guess I did have a bad habit though of cleaning
out the fridge and putting everything down the sink. They told me not to do
that either.