Garbage disposers

What's behind our garbage disposer Ratings?

• Overall score
  Overall score is based on performance and noise, and other factors not shown in the Ratings, such as occurrences of stalling and ejecting of unground bones.
• Speed
  We judged each model's speed of grinding beef bones and vegetable scraps. The speed of grind was based on the amount of bone that was ground in one minute of operation.
• Fineness
  We judged each model's fineness of grinding beef bones and vegetable scraps. The fineness of grind was based on the distribution of particle size after all bones were ground to completion.
• Vegetable scraps
  For vegetable scraps, whole celery stalks and whole potatoes were used.
• Noise
  We judged noise as a combination of decibel readings while grinding bones and judgments of sound generated while grinding other table scraps.