Ooh, That Smell!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Wasn’t Thanksgiving great! Full, grateful, stomachs thanks to your cooking prowess!
But have you ever been in your kitchen and caught a whiff of rotten food or sewage? I have. First, I go to the trash can. If that is not the source, I then put my nose to the sink. Yuck! That’s it! My sink smells! I then turn on the water and run the disposal…but the smell lingers. Has this ever happened to you?
If you find a bad odor coming from your disposal, it could be caused by debris that has collected on the underside of, or beneath, the disposal’s rubber flapper.
Here are the three things to do to make your disposal lose its unpleasant scent:
1) With the disposal OFF, wipe the underside of the rubber flapper with a coarse rag or pad and detergent. Make sure not to stick your hand too far into the disposal!
2) After cleaning the underside of the disposal flap, turn on the water to the sink, then turn on the disposal and dump a couple of handfuls of ice into it. The ice will not dull the blade, but will actually clean debris and gook off the blade.
3) Now, with the disposal running, drop in a few lemon, lime, or orange peels. They will not only leave a pleasant scent, they also do a good job of breaking up debris and gook.
There, isn’t that better!?!
- Scott Askew
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