After our Great Potato Peel Debacle caused by yours truly on Thanksgiving Day 2012 that resulted in an emergency plumber call to the tune of $700 (ironically they were Yukon GOLD potatoes) we put as little as possible if anything at all down our garbage disposal...and this is advice directly from the plumber. So everything gets scraped into the trash and just the crumbs/residue left from scraping go down the disposal. ALSO we we've been told by several builders over the years when we would do the walk-through of our homes that you should never run the hot water while you're running the disposal (it can mess up the seal or something over time).
By the way, so as not to cause anyone heart failure, that $700 plumber bill was in Northern VA...
And like another poster said, if you insist on putting anything down your disposal it most definitely should not be anything stringy (like asparagus) and never put pasta down or potatoes because of the gummy issue.
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