Both of you deserve those accolades. Holy crap. You’re amazing.
And now our garbage disposal isn’t working. 
I’m beginning to think our real problem is gremlins…
Ah, I had this one. There was a breaker style switch on the bottom that I had to reset, then an allen wrench socket right at the center-bottom of the unit to manually spin the blades and clear the darn thing.
I hope yours is similarly straightforward.
Yeah, I have a Moen one, which doesn’t have the socket at the bottom. Instead you need a special wrench that goes into the sink drain and manually turns the blades that way. Thankfully it was cheap online and should be here later today. The breaker had tripped on the device itself, but resetting it hasn’t changed anything, so hoping that there needs to be some movement of the blades for it to clear or something. We’ll see.
In the spirit of fellowship, my garbage disposal is shot, too!
There is a very high correlation between our disposal breaking and my mother-in-law visiting.
Time to go get the allen wrenches.
What did you dispose of?
I think it’s pretty obviously his mother-in-law.
(the fact that she keeps coming back is really the concerning bit…)
It’s always a bit of an adventure to find out what’s down there.
If you don’t mind me saying so, the German au pairs we had in the past had a very high opinion of our garbage disposal, which the disposal itself was not able to live up to… I can only assume that you all keep a kennel of dachshunds down there, who can chew through things my own disposal would never dream of.
(see: cherry pits)
And thus was Marx’s next book concieved.
Garbage disposals built into kitchen sinks are mostly something people see in the movies and may not realize are not as powerful in real life as movie props usually are in fiction.
The overwhelming majority of such devices are in the United States, with about as many households elsewhere having one as there are households with their own aircraft. Not that garbage disposals are as expensive as aircraft, it’s just that in Europe, Asia, Africa, etc., they are extremely rare and you pretty much never see a kitchen sink with one.
I’ve never seen an European sink with one. I realize that this would carry more weight if I were a plumber or at least a realtor, someone who saw new and different sinks every day, but as an ordinary person, no matter what European country I have visited, I did not come across one garbage disposal built into a kitchen sink.
I’ve solely seen such things when I’ve been in America and in movies or TV shows purporting to depict American households.
I met one once, as a child. The parents of the friend I was visiting had just had their kitchen remodelled, on an American plan (they also had an ice dispenser in the freezer door). They were very rich and I don’t think the grinder lasted past the next kitchen remodel a few years later.
I initially had no idea how “a garbage disposal” could get broken, then later posts revealed it meant the sink grinder thing that you sometimes see on TV, like in Fallout, then for the first time ever I looked up what they are and do.
Sounds like a very high maintenance thing to have in a place where regular cleaning is more than enough hassle already.
If an in-sink garbage disposal has a plastic body and is less than a full horsepower, it’s a waste of money that will break
get north of 1HP and a good name brand and it’ll last the life of the kitchen as long as it doesn’t get crammed full of potato peels and eggshells or something foolish like that (seriously, don’t put those in it)
Great, now I’m picturing the horse-driven garbage disposal with Heath Robinson-style pulley belts.
There is a 10HP commercial inSinkerator out there which could fit that description
I hope the person who named that product was given a raise
They’re actually extremely low maintenance… you just kinda wait until it smells and then you stick some lemon wedges in there and flip it on. Or a little soap pouch custom made for the purpose.
As @rjwolfe said, the things typically last the life of the kitchen.
It’s just when a houseguest starts throwing eggshells in there (they turn into sand and clog your U-bend) or woody things like the aforementioned cherry pits that you occasionally have to do something to it. Despite the whinging, it took me maybe 4 minutes to get the thing back online, with fetching my tools comprising half the effort.
I think my in-laws are descaling fish over the disposal, and the scales and fins are gumming it up.
I’m delighted to hear that most of the world has never heard the word “insinkerator.” TIL!
Richest man in Babylon here, I have two insinkerators in my house.
Ha, just realized I also have two sheds. But one has a hole in the roof, so I can’t get all hoity toity.
They even sued the Heroes TV show because it’s such a good name
My GP, the same doctor who was our family doctor when I was a little boy, has retired. I knew it was coming… I just expected that I would have more time, I suppose.
Time used to creep along with such exaggerated slowness as I waited for some much anticipated future event as a child, but the older I get, the more its pace picks up, thundering past me and my little part of the world, like a bull in a china shop, leaving broken things and unwanted changes in its wake.
I hear there is a shortage of GPs and difficult to get one at all these days. Impossible, of course, to replace 32 years of doctor-patient relationship and how she knew me better than most of my family. She’d even learned not to bother with the mundane health advice and focus on the major stuff.
I’ll miss her and hope she enjoys retirement.