While performing our duties and responsibilities towards maintaining our drainage system, all of us fail to deliver. However, we do not realise the mistakes made by us on a day-to-day basis until and unless we are faced with the problem of stinking and blocked drains.

Your drains not only start emitting foul smells in the case of a blockage but the free flow of water is also prevented. If you talk specifically about Kitchen sink, you need to be very careful while using it. For maintaining the functionality of your kitchen sink, it’s extremely crucial to avoid flushing anything solid into it. However, if you flush food and other solid materials down your kitchen sink, it is bound to get blocked which will cause enormous inconvenience to you.

Obnoxious odours emitted by your kitchen sink due to the blockage not only affects the atmosphere of your kitchen but your entire house. The primary cause of the foul smell arising from the sink is often the decaying food in the P-trap. Therefore, if you have the habit of throwing everything down your kitchen sink, it’s better to change it for improving the condition of your drains.

Here’re the food items which should never be washed down the sink:

Pieces Of Cooked Meat And Fish

If you prepare fish and meat items at your home, make sure that after enjoying your lunch or dinner you clean everything from the plates before they enter the sink. However, if you start cleaning the plates without removing food particles from them, you will end up washing small pieces of cooked meat and fish down the sink. Meat products start producing a foul smell quickly if they get stuck in the garbage disposal. When the pieces of cooked as well as raw meat come in contact with oily and greasy stuff in your drains they end up creating clog, which stops the free flow of water.

Starchy Food Like Potato & Pasta

Foods items which contain extensive starch in them such as rice, pasta and potato should never be allowed to enter your drains because they can easily create clogs. These foods get stuck in your drain pipes, and they form a blockage by mixing up with a variety of other stuff flowing through your drain.

Fruits & Vegetables

While eating fruits like mango and banana sometimes, you end up flushing their small pieces into the sink, which is not the right way of discarding the leftovers. We all maintain dustbins in our kitchen, and hence we should always discard the leftover foods including fruits and vegetables into them so that we can easily maintain the deteriorating condition of our drains.

Make Sure That You Never Allow Flour To Enter Your Kitchen Drain

There is no denying the fact that you love baking cookies and cakes in your kitchen, however, while doing so it becomes your responsibility to prevent flushing the leftover flour in the drain.

When you wash a pan containing flour in your sink, it goes dow the drain and becomes extremely sticky. The sticky flour easily sticks to other food particles passing through your drain pipes such as rice, small pieces of cooked vegetables and noodles, etc., which eventually results in creating a clog.

Here is how you can prevent the formation of clog in your kitchen drain –

Start developing a habit of cleaning your kitchen drains with hot water in every couple of days. Hot water helps in removing sticky substances from your drain pipes so make sure that after washing oily utensils, you pour boiling water down the drain. In addition to that, you can also use baking soda to clean your kitchen drain.

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