I always forget Americans have sinks that kill everything
I'm so fucking scared of these things.
I genuinely don't understand those sinks. Why do they exist? Why is that necessary? What the heck are you putting down your sinks that necessitates that??? Genuinely curious.
I've asked around before and apparently in many areas of the US it makes more logistical sense to treat soft food scraps like cooked vegetable matter as water waste instead of having separate systems for food waste. It's just the easiest way to transport it given the way their cities are set up and how their water system works. This info is very out of date so I don't know if it's still true (I know a lot of US cities have green waste recycling programs these days) but that's where it comes from. It does make sense because the water pipes are the easiest way to get rid of goo without burning petrol by carrying it in trucks, so it comes down to pipe maintenance vs. garbage truck fuel and maintenance, taking into account how close composting facilities are etc.
I've never lived anywhere without a backyard (Australian, not much of a deep city person) so the idea of not having anywhere to compost food scraps was completely alien to me but I see the logic of the Sink Blender.
#thanks for (probably) explaining this!! absolutely baffling#now can someone explain why everyone in the US has a clothes dryer but the same ppl hand wash their dishes??#in Germany clothes dryers are still somewhat of a luxury - even when you have one you'll line dry most of your stuff#but most households do have a dishwasher. Especially once there are kids#is this bc water and electricity are cheaper in the US like with gas? Are dishwashers more expensive (than dryers??) confusing
I'm given to understand that dryers are normalised there because in many areas it's considered at minimum rude, if not straightup forbidden (HOAs baffle me), to line dry clothes outside. I do not know why. Americans just hate to see drying laundry I guess?
Some areas also have a lot of rainfall that makes line drying a pain but that's also true in lots of countries that don't tend to use dryers so I'm not sure it's much of a motivating factor. I'm mentioning it because Americans will if I don't.
As a US American, I've never heard the rude thing, but almost certainly there are HOAs who ban it. (Yes HOA's don't make sense, we invented them because of Racism and they continue to be Evil) Probably some of why dryers are much more of a thing here is due to humidity which YES IS HIGHER IN THE US. But also possibly due to advertising pushes for home appliances in the 50s since women were very tired and companies wanted to make lots of money.
You can pry my dryer from my cold dead hands though they make clothes so soft and warm.
