My SO and I live in an older home just outside of NYC which doesn’t have a garbage disposal.
We’ve been using this sink strainer for many years and honestly, as simple as it seems, it’s been a lifesaver. I’ve bought a few of these over the past few years, both for myself and for friends. No more clanky metal strainers or those screen-type ones that are impossible to keep clean.
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Even with a garbage disposal, a strainer is indispensable.
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Really, once you’re well-equipped it’s the little things that make a difference,
Speaking of odes:
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearied,
For ever piping songs for ever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
For ever warm and still to be enjoy’d,
For ever panting, and for ever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy’d,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead’st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e’er return.
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
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I just replaced both od mine with weekend with spiffy stainless ones. Just NOT playing garbage disposal chicken on a daily basis is worth the price.
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That’s the one I have. And I do have a garbage disposal, which I try ne er to use. I do run it occasionally to clean it out.
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I have a strainer in just about every drain that can fit one. I also have spare strainers in case they get gross enough for me to toss. Even when I had a working garbage disposal unit, we never used it (one of those old school “don’t understand and don’t trust it” mentalities) so I never used mine. Just seemed weird to pour that stuff into the sink, so it was always strained out. And then, let’s not even talk about the hair, fur and other things in the bathroom and laundry sinks.
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I even have a strainer in my shower.
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The tubshroom in my daughters’ shower has saved me a small fortune of not needing a plumber
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I do, too. But, the women in my life have long hair, and I also bath my dog in the tub. No shame in that action.
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Exactly. My dad has a garbage disposal in his “retirement villa”. He loves it but I can’t get accustomed to the idea.
I’m sort of the “lounge cop” of our high school’s teachers’ lounge, and I can’t believe so many young folks, who have had garbage disposals since birth, can’t handle the no disposal in our lounge. They’ll take out my strainer, then I have to clean the trap. I sent a very nice email about all this, with some “no disposal lessons” and they did oblige. Still, I was thrown off that folks couldn’t swing the no disposal thing.
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An ex-gf used to call the stuff left in the strainer “shnibbles.”
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I got my strainer at Jacks 99Cent store for $1.29. Not as (unnecessarily) fancy but it does the job at a far far lower price.
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My problem with almost all sink strainers is that they are elevated from the floor of the basin, so that some stuff will get stuck at the edge of the strainer, and possibly flow under (if the strainer isn’t heavy enough and lifts up with water flow). I did see once (on Amazon, I think) a strainer that fits snugly inside the drain hole, which solved that problem; but for some reason I can’t remember now, there was some other issue with it so I didn’t order it.
Bought one and loving it in the a sink without a garbage disposal.
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You should have married her. That’s totally great.
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