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Thread Number: 37349
/ Tag: Small Appliances
Thermador disposal: The never ending search for a good grind has ended! |
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| Post# 398522 9/20/2018 at 21:50 (2,037 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
Well I finally found the disposal I want, a genuine vintage (albeit a very late example) Waste King garbage disposal! This one is a Thermador branded unit, 3/4 HP, which I think is as powerful as they get, not sure they had a 1HP version ever... I bought the thing used and feared the worst, but it’s in excellent condition really, I’ve read that the grind ring in these doesn’t really wear down and it seems to be true! See link for video of it having some fried chicken bones!
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| Post# 398583 , Reply# 2 9/22/2018 at 10:24 (2,035 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
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Is your Waste King one of the old ones or a newer Anaheim? Coarse grind? This thing grinds pretty fine, I watched the clear P trap I have under the sink, it came out the consistency of a smoothie food it seems, I didn't see the larger flaky bone chunks I'm used to seeing come out of the newer Anaheim Waste Kings, the ISE Kenmore or even the high speed GE I used for a while. I ran some celery bits down it too, and the slicer blades under the flywheel did definitely chop those up! | ||
| Post# 398640 , Reply# 4 9/23/2018 at 10:44 (2,034 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
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I had an Anaheim Waste Maid for a while, only replaced it because a metal bit fell down it and no one noticed, then turned it on and broke a hammer off! I was both disgusted and sad, as it was a good disposal even if a far cry from this Thermador WK! I’ve personally seen these Anaheim units take beef ribs, ham bone, and even a pork roast bone!
I was hoping you’d say it was an older one like this, as then I’d hope to find the 1HP one day... I think 3/4 was as far as these old Kings went, and I’m glad that’s what I managed to find! Tim’s family and another collector friend of mine here both have the 1 HP like yours, and have been very satisfied and they both use them heavily to avoid food waste in the trash! | ||
Post# 398676 , Reply# 5 9/24/2018 at 00:39 (2,034 days old) by tolivac  (Greenville,NC) |
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Heavy bones should go to the dog or the trash-they may be too much for most disposers.Put a beef bone in a Bus-Boy disposer-in an apartment-the bone went thru the hopper!!I had to PAY to have it replaced.So then on I threw heavy bones in the trash.On my brothers farm--they use their pigs as "disposers"! | ||
| Post# 398746 , Reply# 6 9/25/2018 at 08:42 (2,032 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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| Post# 398791 , Reply# 7 9/26/2018 at 10:34 (2,031 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
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How many pounds of frozen steer bone?? This is just nuts! But I always have felt a good disposal should be able to dispose of fairly hefty bones... (see link!) CLICK HERE TO GO TO Ultralux88's LINK | ||
| Post# 398889 , Reply# 8 9/28/2018 at 17:27 (2,029 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
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| Post# 398928 , Reply# 10 9/29/2018 at 10:01 (2,028 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
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But do you think this WK sounds bad? I just think it should be quieter, like it was before the mounting flange swap.
I'd love to find a batch feed Maytag or Kitchenaid/National for the other side of the sink, the Thermador WK is the disposal I really wanted for this side, the other side needs to be batch feed because there's just the one wall switch. | ||
| Post# 398951 , Reply# 11 9/29/2018 at 20:11 (2,028 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
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Well I think we have it...
I tightened the sink flange up a bit and went to a plastic outlet elbow. Then I gave it the business...
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Post# 398967 , Reply# 12 9/30/2018 at 01:15 (2,028 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC) |
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That WK disposer is tough-but the bones should just go into the trash-faster!Esp the plastic fork.I have seen MANY plastic forks go thru commercial type ISE and WK disposers.The sewer companies are not fond of that. | ||
| Post# 399113 , Reply# 13 10/2/2018 at 14:10 (2,025 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
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You're the first to say anything about the fork! I did that just to see what people might say. I don't usually have such dense and hard bones to dispose of, usually it will just be getting pork and chicken bones which go pretty fast. It really was just for fun, to see how it would handle it, how long it would take. | ||
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