Michael Today: The Garbage Disposer E20 by Emerson. I have previously written that it is common in American kitchens to have a so-called garbage disposer installed under the sink. Between the drain and the drainpipe, there is a small grinding mechanism that starts at the push of a button and grinds waste that could clog the pipes into pieces small enough to pass through the drainpipe. Whatever you chop up in the kitchen, you simply dump into the sink, turn on the water and the grinding mechanism--and whoosh, it goes down the drain!
Figure 1 shows how I poured fruit waste into the sink, and in Figure 2 you can see the resulting moderate pipe blockage. However, a solid half horsepower in the Emerson engine mercilessly eliminates even stubborn waste (Figure 3). Powerful. Reliable. Emerson.
Some time ago, I overdid it and dumped too much waste in, and Emerson promptly stopped working. Oh no, I thought, now I have to call the landlord and wait for a garbagge disposer specialist to kindly come by. However, a look under the sink revealed that the Emerson E20 comes with a small Allen wrench, which you just insert at the bottom, turn it around once to manually reduce the waste, and it works again! What a great product!
