How Does a Garbage Disposal Work?

If you want to ask which place in the house produces the dirtiest garbage, the kitchen is the first place we think of. Indeed, in the kitchen, although we can prepare abundant food for us, there is also a lot of garbage that comes with it. At this time, in order to solve most of the worries that many people do not want to clean up the garbage, the food waste disposer appeared, so how does a home garbage disposal work? Now let us to get to know the working principle of household waste disposer.

 

Working principle of a garbage disposal

 

In fact, the working principle of a household garbage disposal is very simple and is easy to understand. It is a small electrical appliance that is installed under a kitchen sink and sits between the sink’s drain and the drain trap. When food leftover or other debris was put into the garbage disposal, it passes through a grinder with sharp blades to be ground small pieces, and then pass through the house’s plumbing system. After you know how it works, now you should understand that why some items can be put into the food waste disposal, while other items are not. So, properly using a garbage disposal not only can prolong the service life of a disposal, but also can avoid any clogging problems.

 

 

How to maintain a waste disposal?

 

After you know the working principle of kitchen food waste disposer, you should know what cannot be thrown in a home waste disposal in order to extend its service life. Usually the basic rule of thumb for what you can put down a garbage disposal is anything that is biodegradable food. Now let us see how to maintain a waste disposal.

 

1. Reasonable control time: After the food residue is removed, let the food garbage disposer continue to rotate for about 10 seconds. The continuous water flow will flush the disposal and the drain pipe to avoid residues.

 

2. Clean grinding chamber steps: First of all, you should cover the water blocking plug, and pour about a quarter of the water into the water basin, and then pour an appropriate amount of detergent and add water to mix together. Next, you need power on the processor, and slowly open the water blocking plug to let the water flow slowly into food waste processor, and then turn on the tap.

 

3. Regularly clean the grinding chamber: you had better to clean the grinding chamber of kitchen food waste disposer about every 10 days, and use alkaline detergent to remove the internal grease.

 

4. It is forbidden to pour high-temperature water into the waste food processor: Do not pour water above 30°C directly into food processor, because long-term dumping of high-temperature water will damage the rubber and plastic parts inside the disposer. And you should cut off the power supply for a long time. If you do not need to use it for a long time, you can clean it and unplug the power supply.