First Garbage Disposal

[jakeseacrest]

What was the first garbage disposal that you ever had? My parents had an Insinkerator Badger 5 installed in 1991. The first one I bought when I moved out on my own was the Kenmore 1/2 hp that looked just like the Badger

 

[turquoisedude]

Our second house in the Montréal suburb of Pointe-Claire had a Youngstown Kitchens disposer, probably original to the house (circa 1957).  We moved to that house in 1970 and the disposer was not very good at all.  I remember that we replaced it with a Kenmore that we got while on vacation in upstate New York in '72.  

 

[circlew]

Waste King

Which was installed soon after we moved into the house in late Summer of '57. The housing on it was a medium blue. It lasted until sometime in the mid 70's, when we got an ISE 77. After it went bad around '90, an ISE Badger was installed, which didn't last very long.

 

[arbilab]

1953 Hotpoint builder model, alongside the companion impeller dishwasher.  IIRC, it was bidirectional depending which direction you turned the stopper handle.

 

[petek]

In the houses I grew up (60's) in they were In Sinkerators, not sure what models, not even sure they had model names like they do now. I installed an In SInkerator in our first house in Calgary but had problems with it clogging because the kitchen drain pipe didn't seem to have enough slope as it crossed the basement to the rear of the house. Stopped using it and we've not had one since.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

What I at least saw in the house I’d done most of my growing up in:

An orange In Sink Erator, to be replaced by a beige one, followed by many more, turning into the Badger brand, after that...

— Dave

 

[askolover]

My sister and I bought our mother a 1/3hp Kenmore one back in 1984 or so.  It did ok but rusted out.  Sometime around 1993 I bought her a new 1/2 hp model with stainless innards, not sure if it is a Sears or Insinkerator branded one but they are the same thing anyway.  In my house I have a 3/4 hp stainless grind chamber model Sears I think...it's been so long since I've actually looked at the label and it's been installed for 20 years trouble free.

 

[reactor]

Westinghouse

We gout our first disposal in the summer of 1967. It was a Westinghouse (a real Westinghouse, not WCI).

That was back in the day of trading stamps--anyone old enough to remember those?? In Dayton, Ohio we had "Top Value" trading stamps where most areas of the country had "Green Stamps. I don't remember how many books of stamps it took, but it was a lot.

It worked fine up until 1971 when it smoked and died. My dad then got a General Electric TOL series-wound "Disposall" with the Carbaloy cutter.

A very impressive performer and impressive looking with its brushed aluminum housing.

 

[bradfordwhite]

Yes I remember S&H greenstamps.

 

Do you remember as a busy body three year old waking up early in the morning, before everyone else, taking a sheet of these, laying down on the floor in the kitchen facing the kick space at the base of the cabinets, ripping them off individually, licking them, and sticking them onto said kick space approx. 12" apart?

Who HASN'T done that, right.

 

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The garbage disposal in the house I grew up in, built in 1959 as a tract house, had the original disposer.  It never worked and over time it leaked until it was replaced by some orange-plastic-sound-insulated-jacketed-housing type thing in the late 70s.  But our plumbing was bad (pipes with no tilt, rusting badly, etc.) so you really couldn't put all that gunk down the drain as it would back up.

 

[iheartmaytag]

Our first

Was a GE, it Was In the house built around 1953. It was replaced with an ISE
around 73 or 74. Anywhere we have lived since it has always been an InSinkErator of some kind. Currently we have a 777ss. I think it was installed around 2002, we bought the house in 07.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Technically, all disposers were just disposers. Only GE had the trademarked name "Disposall." Hotpoint called theirs the Hotpoint Waste Exit when it was first introduced with their electric dishwasher/sink combo, but that was not as long-lived as GE's Disposall.

 

[turquoisedude]

The first Westinghouse disposers were called the 'Waste-Away', IIRC.  They kept the name even after they outsourced manufacturing of the disposers to Anaheim (they made Tappan and Monkey Ward's Signature disposers, too) back in the 60s. 

 

[tomturbomatic]

Is that like "she just wasted away"? That is a bleak sounding name unless for her leit motif you have a brief sound of a disposer revving whenever her name is mentioned or she appears.

Too much opera.

 

[reactor]

???

"Technically, all disposers were just disposers" I am not quite sure what that means, Tom.

Anyway, Anaheim still uses "Disposall" for their GE branded disposals (disposers).

Remember Annaheim's "Bone Crusher" disposer?

.. and my favorite was the early 70's Whirlpools with the name "Bone Specialist." .

 

[turquoisedude]

"Bone Specialist", eh?  I'll leave that alone.... LOL

 

One other 50s model name I recall was "Pulverator" - was that Waste-King's? 

 

[circlew]

Our Waste King was called a "Pulverator".

 

[luxflairguy]

Our first one was in 1965, Tacoma, Wa house. GE batch grind, year unknown though GE dishwasher (tub pull-out) next to it was from 1858. We weren't allowed to use it much. Too much silverware was going down! Naughty kids!

 

[qsd-dan]

Hobart Kitchenaid (forget the model # now) that was installed in the early 80's along with a KDS-20 dishwasher. That disposer was a Sherman tank. The only time it ever declared "Uncle" was when a penny jammed the impeller and the "Wham-Jam" feature couldn't break it free.

It was still going strong 30 years later when the kitchen was completely remodeled and a new disposer was installed.

As their advertisement campaign (accurately) touted back then "Kitchen-Aid. Because It's Worth It."

 

[toploader55]

Back around the time KitchenAid came out with the 15 series, I think they were partnered up with National Disposers.
I bought my Mom in 1970 a KitchenAid Superba with "MagnaStart". It automatically reverse every time you turned it on.

Yes Dan, these were Tanks. I think National was rebadged as KitchenAid and That was the best rebadge ever.

National were touted as the Best Built disposers back then.

I remember having a KD-15 series brochure that had National disposers on the back of the leaflet.