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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to think an insinkerator looks like the crappest product ever?

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theyoungvisiter · 05/04/2011 20:49

How is mincing up your food and flushing it into the water courses anything other than massively wasteful and yuck?

What's wrong with composting it, or recycling it in the food waste bin?

Ewwwww.

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theyoungvisiter · 05/04/2011 21:40

As for fabric softener - don't get me started on that one

Second only to those "hands free soap pumps" in my list of irrational things I hate.

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theyoungvisiter · 05/04/2011 21:41

you do have to walk like that in jeans. That's actually true.

Everything else I agree, take with a pinch of salt.

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lurkerspeaks · 05/04/2011 22:40

You are nuts if you think these are novel products.

I too grew up with one (80s child) and my parents replaced it when they replaced the kitchen fairly recently.

flippintired · 05/04/2011 22:40

We've had one for 10 years it's brill.

Cloudbase · 06/04/2011 00:43

My Aunt and Uncle had one in the sink of their new house in Wales in 1978. I was 7 at the time and fairly thought they'd moved into the set of 'Tomorrow's World'...

ZacharyQuack · 06/04/2011 02:17

I have an insinkerator. Pretty common in NZ. I've also got a great big fuck-off american fridge/freezer too.

Are you factoring in the fuel cost to transport food waste to the council place in your environmental impact analysis?

Tee2072 · 06/04/2011 07:13

Oh yay. Not only a holy than thou I recycle every scrap and molecule that ever comes out of my kitchen and my shit doesn't stink but also US bashing.

RubberDuck · 06/04/2011 08:26

Had an insinkerator in my last house, god I miss it.

Bratfink · 06/04/2011 08:47

I saw a programme once about the chaps who unblock the sewage pipes. There were huge mounds of congealed fat and food scraps that have to be manually removed. They said that you should never put any waste down your pipes, that drains are for water (and poo and loo paper which break down). Since then i have always been careful about what goes down my plughole i have little seive thing tjat sits in it in the sink that i empty after washibg up and i scrape grease off baking trays or whatever i to the bin. So it amazes and baffles me that incinerators are allowed.

Bratfink · 06/04/2011 08:49

I'm starting to get a similar feeling to that I get when I am washing put the many crevasses of an empty marmite jar and my neighbour blasts by in his car the size of a ferry

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