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These things and kitchen sink blenders are the two most mysterious things for an European child watching US-Shows.
I at least understand the water fountains and experienced them a few times here and there but the sink blender waiting to chop your fingers is a total mystery.
Garbage disposal? They have limited utility, but save you from having to transfer food scraps from the sink to the trash or compost.
The built in ice/water dispenser in the refrigerator is the one that mystifies me.
Garbage disposals are a thing I can't understand for the life of me. Like yes the food scraps are disgusting but you pull out the metal filter not scrape the food from the sink. And it isn't free correct me of I am wrong but it costs about 50 dollars.
Try like $200-300. Mine cost $286 because I needed one compatible with my septic system. Plus of course you have to pay to have it installed, including having an outlet installed under your sink if there wasn't already one there.
But I realllly hate the drain trap baskets. I never want to be without a garbage disposal!
That much for a motor which shreds soft food?!!
Yes indeed! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They are not as common as TV makes it seem, at least not where I'm at in the north east.
My first UK flat - renovated in the 1980s - had a waste disposal installed. Eventually it clogged, and the plumber who came to fix it said he loved these things because they made him a lot of money. He himself would never have one. It had clogged from the dirt from potato peelings, apparently a very common issue.
Water fountains are a U.S. thing? Never knew that. Is just filling bottles at sinks more common in other countries? Do people not drink on the go as much?
There are some fountains like this in Airports and where the tapwater is pretty bad, but usually a public water fountain is an old fountain from the medieval times with some ornaments and stuff
This is the one from my home city
But they are only outside because on the inside you just fill your bottle in the bathroom
But the old medieval ones outside, that potable water? That's awesome.
Not all, but a lot of them. If you encounter a fountain that looks like you can drink from it and it DOESN'T have a sign telling you it's non-drinkable, you can safely drink from it
Unchilled Tab-Water and filling bottles in the bathroom. Some drinking fountains are publicly available but more of a novelty and none usually not inside of buildings.
I don't know about others, but getting hydrated isn't an issue here. It's rarely significant above 30°C even in summer (and if max 2 months) and our water in my city is of such "high quality" they bottle and sell it. (Aqua di Monaco).