One time on Usenet, Nancy2 > said:
> On Dec 21, 12:55=A0pm, (Little Malice) wrote:
> > One time on Usenet, said:
> >
> > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:24:05 -0800 (PST), Nancy2
> > > > wrote:
> >
> > > >It's a lot easier to put
> > > >eggshells and coffee grounds in the trash to begin with, if that's
> > > >what you end up doing, anyway. =A0What, you want to argue about it?
> > > >Happy holidays.
> >
> > > I don't put eggshells in the trash. =A0Coffee goes there, however.
> > > Never thought about putting it down the disposal. =A0Probably because
> > > it's just easier to walk to the bin and dump instead of separate the
> > > grounds from the filter and going two places instead of one.
> >
> > Years ago, Mom had a new garbage disposal installed and the
> > instructions suggested putting ice cubes or coffee grounds down
> > it, because they will scour the unit. And the coffee smells nice.
> > Unfortunately, we don't make coffee anymore, so I don't do
> > it...

> If you've ever reached down in a disposal which has regularly had
> grounds thrown in it, to clear something else out, and pulled up the
> rubber gasket when you pulled your hand out, your hand would be
> covered with dark brown smelly gunky coffee ground residue. That was
> the condition of a disposal in an office I worked in. No thanks, you
> can have it.

If you check the underside of the rubber gasket of any disposal, I'm
relatively certain it will have some kind of greasy gunk build up,
coffee grounds or not...

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Jani in WA