Garbage disposals are a convenient way to get rid of food that lands in your sink when washing dishes. While there are many foods that cause no problem running through the garbage disposal, others can cause significant damage that require costly repairs. Even if some foods don’t destroy your garbage disposal, they may not efficiently go down the drain and leave your kitchen smelling like rotten food. Do you know what you should not put down your garbage disposal? If not, check out these four foods that a Panama City Plumber guarantees will destroy your disposal.
The most well-known food item that you should never put in your garbage disposal is bones. Chicken bones, ribs, or any other type of bones should never be put down the disposal. The blades are not nearly strong enough to properly grind up bones, which will result in breaking your disposal.
A lesser known food that can damage a garbage disposal is celery. Celery consists of string-like fibers that can wrap around garbage disposal blades. If the blades become too entangled in these fibers, they will stop spinning and eventually break.
Coffee grounds is another food that should go to the trash and not your garbage disposal. Coffee grounds may seem relatively harmless since they are small. However, they tend to collect in pockets of your garbage disposal and becomes a muddled mess. Those messes will collect other food and begin to smell over time.
Lastly, eggshells are a much-debated food item on how to properly dispose of them. The main debate with whether they are safe for garbage disposals or not. Those who say they are not argue that the membrane in eggshells, or the whites and yoke, provide a sticky substance that clogs the disposal and dulls the blades. If you’ve ever smelled a bad egg, you know how unpleasant rotten egg whites can smell after being trapped in the disposal.
By keeping this information in mind next time you are in your kitchen cooking, your garbage disposal and drain cleaning experts in Panama City will thank you.
The business is located at 920 N E Ave, Panama City, FL 32401. Mr. Rooter of Panama City can be contacted by phone at (850) 250-0906 with more information available on their website at www.mrrooter.com/panama-city.
Mr. Rooter Panama City
920 N E Ave
Panama City, FL 32401
(850) 250-0906
