What not to put down your insinkerator.If you want your insinkerator to go the distance, there are some things that should never see the inside of your unit. 1. Tea bags: The tea leaves produce tanic acid that after time can eat into your waste disposer. 2. Coffee grounds: Cause blockages and react with the metal parts within your insinkerator. 3. Large bones: Small chicken and fish bones should be no trouble but a leg of lamb is seriously going to stall your system. 4. Stringy plant material: Anything like flax gets caught around the blades causing your machine to stall. This will set of your overload switch. 5. Grit and small stones: You may chuckle at me for including this one,but...... I've lost count on how many times I've found stone chips from people cleaning the fish bowl. They lodge in the disposal units blades and throw out the overload button.
Keep your waste disposal unit smelling sweet.Depending on what goes down your waste disposer, determines how smelly it becomes. The smell is usually caused by food particles getting stuck to the sides and on the blades of the unit. To solve this problem you have to dislodge these rotting food scraps and replace with a refreshing odour. The smell solutionGrab a hand full of ice cubes and put down plug hole. Turn on disposal unit with running water. Wait till all the ice has been ground up and passed through. This obliterates those food particles, and all that's left to do now, is sweeten up the smell. Cut up a lemon or orange and put into waste hole. Turn on and let the citrus fruit do its thing. Breath deeeeeep. Ahhh the smell of fresh fruit fill the air.
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