<p>I saw it on HGTV. This stainless sink is about 6 inches wide 4-5 ft long. It is installed on a kitchen island. On one end there is a garbage disposal, the lady pours the unfinished food to the sink and turns on the water, the water washes the waste into the garbage disposal and the disposal is turned on by the presence of the waste and disposes the waste.</p>
<p>Any idea where can I get it?</p>
<p>Google trough sink and see if that gets you anywhere. I’m on my phone and the images are just too small.</p>
<p>I’m not going to be much help on where to find this sink although you could probably do a word search online to find it. I wanted to tell you that a plumber recently told me, after servicing my clogged kitchen sink, “you shouldn’t put (much) garbage in a garbage disposal”. </p>
<p>Since then, I’ve thrown most of my gargage in a garbage CAN…</p>
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<p>I barely use my garbage disposal too. I use a meshed sink strainer to catch any food waste and then throw it into the garbage can.</p>
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<p>My plumber went even further. He said, “The best advice I can give you about a garbage disposal is not to use it.” I run it for a few seconds once in a while, because the few crumbs that do go down will build up after a while. But gone are the days of using it for actual food.</p>
<p>Apparently, we can put a man on the moon but we can’t make a garbage disposal that disposes of garbage.</p>
<p>We don’t have this sink, but when we built out last house it was a consideration. I think this is what you are talking about.</p>
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<p>I compost most of my garbage and removed the nonworking garbage disposal that came with the house. </p>
<p>The crevasse sink looks cool, and I imagine if it were located on the same counter that you actually did all your prep work it would be very convenient.</p>
<p>What would be more convenient is a hole in the counter to drop garbage into directly.</p>
<p>The problem with disposals is people don’t use them correctly. You need to run the thing, not turn it on and then turn it off. </p>
<p>When the disposal runs, it grinds the stuff to a pulp and the direction of the blades along with gravity and the force of water pushes it down the pipe. If you turn it off, you generate a lump of pulpy mess in your pipe. This either blocks the water coming down completely or partially blocks it - like in an artery in your body - so additional stuff piles up until the sink no longer drains.</p>
<p>My wife used to - and still sometimes does out of old habit - pulses the disposal on for a few seconds. You should let it run and run. That doesn’t hurt the motor or the blades. </p>
<p>Every house is different but generally the pipe under the sink connects to another pipe and that then connects to the main drain. You need to run the disposal long enough to get the pulped stuff to the main drain, which is that big cast iron or PVC pipe which tilts to the street. If you live in an apartment, you need to run the thing long enough to get the pulpy stuff into the main stack that runs up and down. That can be a long way if the kitchen has been moved in renovations away from the way it was likely built with the kitchen drain near the main drain. </p>
<p>Hot water helps too. That helps break up the mess which may be building up on the drain walls because you didn’t run the disposal long enough.</p>
<p>BTW, I’ve been told by plumbers the clog problem is worse with houses that have batch disposals, the kind where for convenience you close the cover in the sink and turn on the disposal. They say people turn it on, wait until the grinding sound stops and turn it off. A plumber would run the disposal for a minute or more. But then my friend Jimmy wouldn’t be minting dough snaking out drains with his power auger.</p>
<p>Also btw, a few things shouldn’t be forced through a disposer. Artichoke leaves are an example. Too fibrous. May actually jam the blades of a household quality disposal.</p>
<p>I would be very concerned about the setup of an automatic disposal. Can it be set to run long enough? Can you control the volume of water flowing through?</p>
<p>“What would be more convenient is a hole in the counter to drop garbage into directly.”</p>
<p>Yeuch, smelly. </p>
<p>I love my disposal. Never have had a problem. I run it a long time (at least 2 minutes) like Lergmon posted and I never put fibrous material in it.</p>
<p>We have a green bin program where we live so no one has a garbage disposal. </p>
<p>I did have a plumber tell me once that garbage disposals cause all kinds of problems in most water treatment plants.</p>
<p>I saw the same show you did, artloversplus. I have to admit when I watched them with the water running the white porcelain trough and moving the food down into the garbage disposal right there at the table, it reminded me of a toilet being flushed. Not a happy thought for a dining area.</p>
<p>House came with a disposal. I only put down things it allowed and followed directions, but ended up with huge plumbing problem near the street connection. Now we have a strainer in there. We compost most stuff, anyway.I just said to H we have to remember to get it removed.</p>
<p>Lergnom–amen to that. I can’t for the life of me get my DH to use the disposal properly. He runs it for about 1.2 seconds and done. Can’t understand why it doesn’t work…</p>
<p>I’ve never had a house with a disposal.( current house is 102 yrs old!)
I put most stuff either in the compost pile or in the yard waste bin that is picked up once a week. Ive never wanted a disposal, I always look for ways to reduce water consumption, not use more.</p>
<p>I am remodeling the kitchen though, so thinking of moving the sink and building in a place for recycling & food scraps to go.</p>
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<p>Nice visual! Or is it aural? It made it impossible to install this sink.</p>
<p>CS, yes, it is the Kohler you linked to. I guess it will be designed to run the correct amount of cycles to make sure the food do not stick.</p>
<p>Iglooo, why would you think it is impossible to install? The only thing I think is that you still has to have another sink on the kitchen counter, this will be an add on. If it is not installed on an island, you will need to waste 4 or more feet on your counter to accommodate that sink so the kitchen must be very big.</p>
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<p>I’m with you, Emeraldkty. I compost. We almost never have meat scraps, and if we do the dog gets them. 
Very little goes in the trash.</p>
<p>I suppose if I lived in a city apartment, I might be interested in a disposal. But not in the suburbs/country with a septic system.</p>
<p>artlover, it was a joke. Clearly, a poor one. It looks lovely. I’d go ahead and get it if you have your heart set on it. I love Kolher products. I have a small kitchen. Not a chance to install twos sinks.</p>
<p>Around here, they call celery the “plumbers friend”- so avoid dropping this down the drain.</p>
<p>We also looked at a similar sink for our basement bar area and decided we would lose too much countertop space…though the look is fabulous!</p>