Garbage Disposals

[deeptub]

The original KitchenAid disposer is still being made, now by Viking. It even has the KitchenAid Wham-Jam breaker, now known as the "Jaminator". Awhile back Consumer Reports tested disposers, and the Viking scored well above the next highest model. It's also very expensive.

http://www.vikingrange.com/cleanup/disposers_ds.html

 

[david]

Beautiful disposer, deeptub. I also like the WasteKings, Mother had one in her house before last-was quiet and really ground the scraps well and effortlessly. I will consider both models when time comes to replace.

 

[chachp]

Portable Disposer?

Has anyone ever seen a portable disposal? When I was little my Dad worked for GE as a Mechanical Engineer. He was one of the designers of small kitchen appliances. They actually created a disposal that sat on top of the drain. There was a container of sorts that you put the garbage in. Then you screwed this motor on top, plugged it in and turned it on. You positioned the water faucet so it ran water into the side and flushed the stuff down the drain.

I don't know if they were ever produced but I do remember seeing it in the house and listen to my Mother complain about what a pain it was to use. She got to test a lot of the stuff they produced. She hated it. It ended up in the basement along with a ton of other stuff that she got to sample. I don't know what ever happened to any of that stuff. I'll have to check it out the next time I'm home. I suspect they probably dumped most of it. I don't know the year for sure, but I know it's when she had her top loading Youngstown dishwasher which, by the way, she also hated.

I have an ISE 1 HP with the SS interior. It's the best I have ever had. Grinds everything and is very quiet. I had a Kitchen Aid 1 HP in my old house. That was great too! I got the ISE on eBay for $60. It was brand new, in the box. Great deal!

 

[kenmore1978]

Disposers

I have a KM (ISE) disposer and it works great. In the case of disposers, one DOES get what you pay for. Those "Badger" cheapie models are crap, you definately want a BIG motor. And as Consumer Reports noted, the more expensive disposers did a much better job of grinding the waste finer.

 

[chachp]

Portable Disposal

I talked with my Dad last night to ask if they ever produced the portable garbage disposal, and he said he didn't think so. He said the bowl was not large enough to really grind stuff effectively. Then he went into a bunch of technical mumbo jumbo about why stuff didn't move around enough, etc.

 

[neptuneguy27]

Portable Disposers

I have seen a Jamestown Portable Disposer. It had a hinged lid and when you closed it it left about an 1/8" to 1/4" opening so water could flow into it. You would load it with your garbage, close the lid, sit it in the sink, turn the water on and plug it in. To me that would be alot of work. But hey, at least this way you can see how finely ground the waste was as it made its way down the drain.

 

[washendry]

HEY I REMEMBER WHEN MAYTAG CAME OUT WITH A DISPOSAL, THEY WOULD GRIND NAILS THRU IT TO SHOW HOW WELL BUILT THEY WERE AND VIRTURALLY INDESTRUCTABLE
KIM

 

[tolivac]

Badger disposers

In any of the apartment buildings I lived in they used badgers-Those had to be replaced frequently becuase their hoppers,shredding components corroded away quickly.A townhome I lived in had one-It ran but the impellors were stuck to the center of the flywheel-preventing them from cutting the waste-replaced it with an ISE all SS machine-was much better-forgot the model# of it-got it from Lowes.The Badgers are definitly a builders brand machine.The apartmernt homers bought them by the case load-esp when they "remodeled" my apartment one time.The machine did work pretty well considered what I fed it-even large bones!It just took awhile for it to shred them.

 

[lightedcontrols]

If you all are wanting a good disposer, you might want to look at the VIKING brand. It is the OLD HOBART design. They're expensive but have never had to replace one and they are the quietest machine that I've ever used! Mark

 

[tolivac]

The Viking machine has potential to replace the "Vita-Mix" disposer jar at my place-Beleive they do make a batch feed model-and the Hobart design shredded waste finer for septic tank users.Would be the answer for those fruit,vegatable peels for the Vita-Mix drinks.Just have to save up for one...

 

[Designgeek]

Though, to play devil's advocate, there is a potential place for light-duty disposals. Assume most of your kitchen scraps go into the regular garbage bin (and/or your vegetable scraps go into compost), the disposal would be used as a kind of "insurance" against occasional or relatively small food scraps going down the drain while washing dishes by hand or preparing food.

If the user planned to stay within those design parameters, the small or light machine could last as long as a heavy-duty machine that was used for grinding up most/all of a household's food wastes.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Dick Van Dyke?

Here's a disturbing image. Never knew Youngstown had a SpokesDisposer.
Henny Youngstown?

 

[neptuneguy27]

Somewhat on topic.....

I was wondering if anyone out there had any interesting ways of cleaning and deordorizing their disposals. I generally put a cup of ice down there and a cup of Sun Light Dishwasher detergent (the chlorine based stuff)and grind it up. I leave it sit in there for a while then flush with hot water. Leaves that stinking GE fresh, at least for a short while anyways. Sometimes I'll also grind up a lemon or other citrus fruit. Anyone else have any suggestions?

Christopher

 

[tolivac]

"spokesdisposer"interesting--It would be appriopriate that a company that builds dishweashers would provide disposers as well-The Dishwasher and disposal were considered the kitchen clean-up crew.
Yes-grinding ice cubes and detergent is a good way to flush out a smelly disposer-used that method when I moved into a home.If you do shred lemon or orange peels to freshen a disposer-make sure thay are thouroughly ground and flushed away-the skins contain acids that will corrode disposer parts if they are left in it.The ice does a super job of scraping away the "slime" that forms in disposals that don't get many bones(chicken bones are best).Household disposals don't handle large pork or beef bones well-same as clam or oyster shells.

 

[kenmore1978]

disposer cleaning

I've seen several products for cleaning disposers at my supermarket.