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What's the best way to clean rotting food that's been sealed off in a broken garbage disposal for 3 months?

The smell was so bad when I took off the rubber cap that I vomited and nearly passed out.

I tried dumping bleach down it but it didnt work

pls help

>> No.1166536

Nuke it from orbit

>> No.1166542

>>1166529
>I tried dumping bleach down it but it didnt work

If that didn't work, nothing will work, you need to replace the thing

>> No.1166580

cleanse with fire

>> No.1166581

>>1166529
Replace the fucking garbage disposal you shitlord.

>> No.1166615
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1166615

>>1166529
Vomit down the disposal. The acids from your stomach should dissolve the organic matter.

>> No.1166618

>>1166529
>Drop in a bunch of maggots
>Add something moldy as a mold seed
>Wait for a while
>Everything will solve itself

Your best option is some HCl acid DESU

>> No.1166624

>>1166529
dont these things have bag liners that you throw out

>> No.1166625

>>1166529
The right amount of explosives should do the trick.

>> No.1166630

>>1166529
Have you tried throwing eggs at it while screaming?

>> No.1166647

Take it apart and clean it
Probably you should wear a gas mask

>> No.1166648

>>1166647
Who just has a gas mask?

>> No.1166653

>>1166648
who the fuck doesn't

>> No.1166657

>>1166648
you can make one yourself with a towel

>> No.1166680

turn it on and keep dumping ice cubes in until clean

>> No.1166697
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1166697

>>1166536
It's the only way to be sure

>> No.1166699

>>1166648
Cause a respirators aren't $20 right?

>> No.1166743

Baking soda is traditionally used to absorb bad odors, in freezers for example. Dump a box of baking soda down the disposal, let it sit for a day. Should take the edge off.

>> No.1166744

>>1166680
Rock salt would probably work better. Ice has a fairly low hardness. Also, if you are aiming to abrade the mess off, you will want something that absorbs moisture so that the abrasive will bounce around efficiently. Anything super-hard such as steel ball-bearings would damage the disposal, and finer low-hardness abrasives such as table salt or baking soda would not bounce around, instead just caking onto the side.

>> No.1166745

>>1166744
...you know, and then rinse off the resulting caked-on salt with ice cubes.

>> No.1166754

Garbage disposals are stupid as fuck and exist to cause problems. Remove, bags, shitcan and replace with normal plumbing, then take out your organic trash or make a compost heap etc.

>> No.1166786

>>1166647
When shit is bad I use my interspiro divator mk2. Add 2x3l 300bar tanks and it's a lightweight set to do shit in toxic spots.

The small tank is also good to have on your back when using air tools in odd places. Just add a regulator 1st stage with a standard air coupler attatched. The tanks can have just 1,8m^3 of air (- compressibility) but for nailers and shit its quite nice.

>> No.1166882

>>1166529
>clean rotting food that's been sealed off in a broken garbage disposal

>clean a broken garbage disposal

If it's broken, disconnect it and toss it in the bin.

>> No.1167055

>>1166743

Tried that too and it didn't work. I can put into words how bad the smell is.

>> No.1167070

>>1166529
>smells bad

put bleach

>didnt work

replace

>no

gasmask

>no

well then you are fucked, you need magic, go to /x/ for plumbing demons

>> No.1167096

>>1166529
Dump 3 heaping spoons of baking soda in there, then pour cup of lime or lemon juice in there.

>> No.1167326

>>1166529
Nuke it with bleach

>> No.1167332
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1167332

>>1166529
bleach

bleach is usually the answer to the majority of life's problems.

name one problem that can't be solved with bleach.