Insinkerator?

[AGreatUsername]

We are having our kitchen done, and insinkerator was high on my wish list. There’s 6 of us, including 4 fussy kids so the leftover scraps are high. I hate the food bin. Kids miss and food goes everywhere, and scraping dried baked beans or Weetabix out of my cupboard is not my favourite way to spend an evening. I’d still put things like the odd chicken carcass and larger fruit and veg in the main weekly food caddy, but leftovers and peelings etc would mean I wouldn’t need a caddy in the kitchen any more.

I was looking at an Evo 150/250 as there’s an offer on them from a supplier but a plumber has just said don’t ever get on, they need rodding constantly as they get clogged etc. They work by grinding food to watery mush so I don’t know how that would happen? I’m not sure if they’re rubbish now or if it was just his personal preference.

Any real life experiences with them? Thanks

Like all these things it's not cut and dry...

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Well we love ours, best thing in the kitchen, actually on a par with a boiling tap. We had the compost bin and maggots to go with it, yuck. Never had any issues with it, we probably do run the water after but only as much as giving the sink a clean as well.

Absolutely adore mine. Our dishwasher empties through it so it gets washed out regularly with that.
Had it three years, never an issue. DH is terrified of it though.

I find compost caddies great and our compost gets taken weekly

We have no compost collection and I have nowhere to start a compost pile. Our council advises food waste be tied in a carrier bag and placed in the general waste. This is only collected every fortnight so leads to a bin full of rotting, maggoty food. If we had a weekly compost collection I'd absolutely use it and not the waste disposal unit, but after an episode where my entire bin store was actually moving with maggots from food on a hot, wet afternoon it's not something I'd ever want to repeat.

@AGreatUsername I have a spare washing up brush I use solely and expressly for pushing waste towards the hole and then down. It’s a different style and colour to the one used for actual washing up so never mixed up. I find it works really well.

I’m late but letting you know that I’ve had one in my last two properties (so 25 years). Tweeny. I’ve never had a blockage. Make sure you always run lots of water when you use it.

Get a dog.
And chickens for veg waste or a compost bin.
We only put out bones. That's it, in our food caddy.

@Ariela

An elephant would be even better - together with a flock of eagles maybe? /s

[quote TobyHouseMan]@Ariela

An elephant would be even better - together with a flock of eagles maybe? /s[/quote]
Surely pigs would be better? They eat everything.

I use my food caddy for large items, such as the bits of a cauliflower that aren't usually cooked and my insinkerator for small stuff like carrot peelings, lettuce leaves and the odd celery stick that is too tough to actually eat. It works very well and I wouldn't be without it. The only thing it really doesn't like is Olive stones. They get stuck, jam it up and DH has to take it apart and reassemble.