DISPOSER SMELL
A lot of good and a lot of overkill ideas have been suggested here. First of all this this is a little like smelly- moldy washers, it shouldn't happen in the first place. A properly used disposer should almost never develop an odor and it wouldn't if you grind plenty of citrus rinds, poultry bones, potato peals, coffee grinds, peach pits etc etc. It is true that a disposer should be generally run with
cold water when grinding food waste, but of course it won't hurt it in the least to run even boiling water through it.
I would never waste money on special cleaners or even regular detergents and lots of bleach trying to remove smells. First try turning on the disposer { with-out the water running ]start feeding ice cubes usually at least a full trays worth, then when the hopper is full of ground ice and no more ice can be added turn on the COLD water and let it swirl around till it all flushes down the drain. Many times when you do this you will see the ice turn brown from all the gunk that gets scoured out from under the rim of the hopper. Sometimes too the sink will monetarily back up when you start running the cold water and when it drains it will do so very forcefully and this really flushes the drain. This is the best method we ever found for cleaning disposers and it is much cheaper and environmentally more responsible than dumping lots of chemicals down the drain.
A lot of good and a lot of overkill ideas have been suggested here. First of all this this is a little like smelly- moldy washers, it shouldn't happen in the first place. A properly used disposer should almost never develop an odor and it wouldn't if you grind plenty of citrus rinds, poultry bones, potato peals, coffee grinds, peach pits etc etc. It is true that a disposer should be generally run with
cold water when grinding food waste, but of course it won't hurt it in the least to run even boiling water through it.
I would never waste money on special cleaners or even regular detergents and lots of bleach trying to remove smells. First try turning on the disposer { with-out the water running ]start feeding ice cubes usually at least a full trays worth, then when the hopper is full of ground ice and no more ice can be added turn on the COLD water and let it swirl around till it all flushes down the drain. Many times when you do this you will see the ice turn brown from all the gunk that gets scoured out from under the rim of the hopper. Sometimes too the sink will monetarily back up when you start running the cold water and when it drains it will do so very forcefully and this really flushes the drain. This is the best method we ever found for cleaning disposers and it is much cheaper and environmentally more responsible than dumping lots of chemicals down the drain.
