{"id":417,"date":"2021-11-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2021-11-19T14:37:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T19:37:30","slug":"garbage-disposal-warnings-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/plumbing-service\/garbage-disposal-warnings-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage Disposal Warnings for Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/garbage-disposal-in-sink.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/garbage-disposal-in-sink-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"garbage-disposal-in-sink\" class=\"wp-image-418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/garbage-disposal-in-sink-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/garbage-disposal-in-sink-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/garbage-disposal-in-sink.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This week is Thanksgiving, and it\u2019s a perfect time for us to address something important about your home\u2019s plumbing\u2014it\u2019s at a high risk of problems this week! In fact, the busiest day of the year for a <a href=\"\/plumbing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plumber in Rochester, NY<\/a> is the day after Thanksgiving. While everyone else heads out to shop for Black Friday, professional plumbers are heading to people\u2019s homes to unclog their drains and repair their kitchen plumbing. If you\u2019re playing host to the family this Thanksgiving, you\u2019ll already have some idea how much strain you\u2019ll place on your kitchen plumbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can give you some pre-repair help in this post about the part of your kitchen plumbing that is at the highest risk during Thanksgiving: the garbage disposal. If you know what to keep out of the disposal during your feasting festivities, you\u2019ll have a much higher chance of making it through the celebrations without having to call us for repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Basics of What Can\u2019t Go Down the Disposal<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kitchen disposals are designed to keep food waste out of the garbage and instead send it down into the sewer system. The disposal uses blunt impellers to hurl the food waste into a grind ring that pulverizes the food so it can easily go down the drain. This grinding system can\u2019t handle <em>all<\/em> objects you put down it. Here\u2019s what to keep out of the disposal this Thanksgiving (and every day after it):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Actual garbage: <\/strong>The term <em>garbage disposal<\/em> unfortunately leads people to believe that inorganic garbage can go down it. It can\u2019t. Any type of trash, such as plastic and paper, should be thrown in the actual trash, not the disposal.<\/li><li><strong>Hard food waste: <\/strong>Here\u2019s a good rule to follow when it comes to what type of food waste you can put down the disposal: if you can\u2019t chew it with your teeth, your disposal can\u2019t grind it. Watch out in particular for fruit pits, meat bones, and unpopped popcorn kernels.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Stringy foods: <\/strong>The main food types to look out for here are fibrous vegetables like celery and asparagus. Onion skins are also trouble. These food items can become wrapped around the mechanical parts of the disposal and damage them.<\/li><li><strong>Fats, oils, and grease: <\/strong>Collectively known as FOG, these cooking products look like harmless liquids when they\u2019re hot. When they cool down, however, they turn into waxy solids that can gunk up the disposal and also build up in the drainpipes. Pour FOG into a separate receptacle and put it in the trash.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Pasta and rice: <\/strong>These don\u2019t seem like they would be problems, but they both absorb water and swell up, possibly creating blockages.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Ice cubes: <\/strong>You may have heard you can \u201csharpen\u201d the blades of the disposal with ice cubes. As we explained above, there aren\u2019t any sharp blades in the disposal, and hard items like ice cubes can damage it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you do run into a plumbing emergency this Thanksgiving, we\u2019re here to see you get the help you need. We offer service so good, you\u2019ll find a reason to call us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"\/contact\/schedule-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Call on Triple-O Heating, Cooling, Electrical &amp; Plumbing<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u2014we\u2019re Your One-stop Shop for HVAC, Plumbing and Electrical service!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what to keep out of the disposal this Thanksgiving (and every day after it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[89,90,88],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plumbing-service","tag-garbage-disposal","tag-kitchen-plumbing","tag-rochester"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripleotoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}