ok, what is the craziest thing you have tried to send down the garbage disposal?
 

i am in a perpetual feud with my girlfriend. she thinks it is only for vortexing clean water down the system. WTF? after looking over my shoulder, i just cleaned the heck out of the fridge. one dozen old ass hardboiled eggs, started off the frenzy. i gotta admit, i got nervous at the watermelon, rind and all. the linquini stopped the system, and i had to unplug and go in. i ended up with all the leftovers from a picnic. it can handle it right? my rule: no bones.

statute of limitations doesn't extend to....oh....wait.....nevermind

"Ok, what is the craziest thing you have tried to send down the garbage disposal?"

Now that sounds like a challenge!

Cheers,

Paul.

From my experience, grape stems are not a good idea. :D

Depends. Are you on a sewer system or septic?

Meat scraps, anything fibrous, no likey.

By accident, a few forks that became a little twisted in the process.

On purpose, two gallons of left over brown guacamole from a party.

eeeeew

nothing really. i am afraid of 50 year old sewer line to the street. if you clog it your chick will laugh her ace off as you gotta do plumbing, or let stinky do it.

One of my kids sent a fork from a twelve set matched 50 year old solid sterling silver set (I'm talking about an expensive like $500 a place setting) down the disposal, does that count?

My son sent a marble, a hot wheels car (a Munster mobile believe it or not), a rubber band for a punching ball - thankfully not all at once. My wife put a rubbermaid spatula down it. I tried to force the remains of a Thanksgiving carcass once - one to many vin-os that holiday!

i second the silverware bit. bout a week ago a small spoon had fallen in and I wasn't aware of it.....went to put some egg shells down the pipe and the noise scared the bejezuz outa me! from now on I put the dirty silverware on the other side of the sink until I feel like cleaning them.

most recent thing to go down my disposal was 3 week old chocolate dipped strawberries....

Mine came with Steel nuts. Seriously, new house, steel nuts.

She is "closer" to the truth. The disposal can handle things, but the plumbing past is usually the issue. Grease and oil, or anything greasy/oily. When they cool they coat the pipes. A lot of the time, veggies get caught in the greasy coating and clog the pipes. Long flat runs are the worst.

If she is that worried about things, let her do the dishes! ;)

My mother in-law....

Cliff, You'd get along splendidly with my wife.....and er, her family.

I have a side drawer full of stainless teaspoons that are in various states of being mangled.

I personally hate the things. To me it it augments the dishwasher but everything else goes in the trash when I'm cleaning up.

You need to write a book, Cliff. You could pull enough material just from the threads you start here. And, my wife's a bit of a killjoy about the garbage toy...er, garbage disposal too.
:D

i know! i tried to buy a new disposal, i think it was called the "bonecruncher". i was vetoed, because of the "glazed, distanced" look she said i got on my face. THE BONECRUNCHER!!! it would have been mine, if it wasnt her lowes giftcard we were toting around.

pet turtle

The movie Madhouse with Kirstie Alley and John Larroquette I recall a scene where a snake was fed into the disposal. Made a horrible grinding sound like the wood chipper scene in Fargo.

Saw a commercial last night were a woman put some strawberries and blueberries down it and made her husband a smoothie - it was a commercial for a blender or something. Unfortunately it gave my son some ideas that will have to be addressed.

the guts of a pumpkin went down once...once

We had a gecko that WAS living in our kitchen. One day he just decided to go down there and it never returned. Too bad he was pretty cool.

I used to work at a summer camp. We had a commercial-grade food grinder that we used for leftover food on the plates. Or leftover food that the cooks didn't feel like storing until later. Seems like the most voluminous single item was a 50 gallon vat of chocolate pudding. We routinely did 20lb sacks of rotten lettuce, massive piles of carrots, trays of 50 corn dogs (sticks 'n' all) and the like.

Oh, yeah, the good ol' days....

Well I don't think anyone has done this so here goes.
I'd like to put my soon to be X WIFE down the dam thing.ANYONE ELSE?

Dude, I have the BONECRUSHER, and you have no idea what you're missing!

When I moved out of my college apartment my softmore year there were a few nice holes in the drywall. I still dont remember how they got there, only that they showed up as the posters came down. What was I supposed to do with the pad of left over spackling? Oh hell, why not? Holy **** that drain clogged up fast. I cant believe they gave me my deposit back :)

A hamster. Whole. It was dead by then.

ice,.... you win.

i am afraid to start the "crazyiest thing you tried to flush" thread.

When my kids were little, I lifted the seat and found my Rolex sitting at the bottom of the bowl.

HAR!!!

vintage "Sun Records" shot glass is my worst. at first i was reaching in with my hand to pull out the shards, but that creeped me out like no one's business (i remember some old movie where they put some guys hand in one and let it rip.."marathon man"?). so i darted out to work, ganked a pair of nice long foreceps, and went at it. to no avail. the motor was fried.

always always run water down the disposal when you are grinding stuff. i get my tap water the hottest possible when pouring in grease or oil.

if your disposal is smelly, grind a couple dozen ice cubes down it.

[edit: as for the foreceps and such, at the time i was working at a psychiatric hospital and the RNs used them to ....uuuhhh... 'get things' out of the patients who were curious as to what their bodies would hold:eek: :eek: no more hard boiled eggs for quite some time as i recall.]

damn, just killed the unit last night. i accidentally dropped three pebbles down the thing during an aquarium water change. it locked up, and belched out a crap smell. resetting and reversing it did no good.

that quick release thing sure is handy. i bet i can change the next one in under 3 minutes.

Hamster, goldfish and only once a dog bone...

I would have liked to stick my ex down there (at the time) but the wood chipper was more efficient.

Girlfriend broke a glass and that went down.... Few days later I was wondering why it was jammed..... A deep cut finger later was enough for me to know why and who did what..... :(

You need a revolving or spring-loaded clip under your sink that contains 6 or 8 pre-loaded disposals. Eject the old disposal (watch out for hot casings!) and BAM, another unit is loaded onto the pipe and ready to eat more pebbles.

Had a lab partner in college that would get a buzz on and throw the empty beer bottles down the disposal. It would do a six pack easily. When I'd see him in class the next morning, the conversation usually began "well I had to take apart my disposal again this morning"...

not too sure. Some really rotted stew man that stuff smelled bad.
But here is a tip after you grind up the stuff...
Follow with lemon peals or lemon rinds at least the other odor won't linger back up.

I used to enjoy flushing my mom's contact lenses down the toilet... They were very expensive back then as well. Sorry, can't add the the garbage disposal - only have stuck spoons in the on accident.

When working at a university dorm dining hall, the little ceramic bowls would routinely "slip by" into the industrial grinder and ground into powder pretty quickly. Silverware slipped by too but they had to come back out. Quite mangled but not ground up.

Mine has a 2 speed 1 HP motor. So far it hasn't even broken a sweat yet. Must have a G-50 tranny. A week old foot long sub didn't even affect the RPM. I walk into the kitchen and it taunts me. Pretty sure it could handle the Jehovah Witness that keeps knocking at 8:AM on Saturdays.