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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Oh no Ouise! I'm betting the thief won't bother with any information, but will try to sell the laptop quickly.
That's definitely what I'm hoping.
I've never had a disposal either, but we have a city-wide compost collection program here, so there's no food waste in the garbage anyway.
My disposal broke last summer and I've not bothered to fix it. All food, etc gets composted by either me or the city of Oakland (we can use the green bins).
Disposals were made legal in NYC a while ago, but since installing one requires getting both an electrical and plumbing permit, hardly anyone has gone through the trouble of retrofitting them in old buildings.
I've never had a disposal either.
When I was a kid, I thought the "Insinkerator" was something Ray Bradbury made up. I was surprised to find they really existed.
My neighbor uses the disposal for everything because of the threat of bears. I use it for barely anything, because I have a septic tank, and because I was trained out of it by my Navajo ladies.
Mine is so crappy that I don't really use it for grinding anything up, just for catching random debris that would get down there like grains of rice or bits and bobs left on a plate. I tried to grind some lemon peels when I first got it and the sound was so horrible that I never did that again.
If I had any ability to compost, I would do that instead, but I don't, so I don't.
I mean, I could get one of those little composting buckets and just bring it out to the Esplanade every so often, but I don't think the city would appreciate it that much.
Really? People have never had a disposer? That's amazing.
I only had one at my previous apartment (and it was an Insinkerator).
We just compost damn near everything except meat (what little there might be left over from me) and dairy.
t edit There are, apparently, composters (or compost enzymes?) that will happily gobble up meat, but our household meat consumption is so low that it's not worth changing over our Giant Composter of Rot.
I have never had a disposal either. No, I take that back-- I think I did in one apartment, but I was scared of it and didn't use it.
This is the first place I've lived that had a disposal. I don't use it much, just for, like Vortex said, random debris. It does make a horrible noise. I'd rather compost. I suppose I ought to get a proper composter. But I don't cook, so there's actually very little food waste.