‘It’s actually working!’ Viral TikTok video reveals how to clean out a garbage disposal using just ICE – and you see results immediately
- TikTok user Desiree, who is known as @dm3lt on the app, shared the trick on May 7; it’s been viewed 5.9 million times
- She stuffed ice cubes into her garbage disposal and ran it normally
- The mother-of-two, who lives in Alabama, then ran hot water over it, and dark water rose up from the disposal into the sink
- According to experts, the trick works just as well without hot water, as the ice particles are cleaning the disposal
Millions of TikTok users have been left amazed by a video of garbage disposal cleaning hack.
Mother-of-two Desiree, from Alabama, who posts under the username @dm3lt, shared the trick on May 7, showing how to use ice cubes and a bit of hot water to quickly clean a garbage disposal with immediately visible results.
The clip has now been viewed 5.9 million times by app users who have been blown away by the simple scrubbing trick.
How to: A popular TikTok video shows an easy way to clean a garbage disposal
The user appears to have picked up the trick from another TikTok video, and says that according to what she saw on the app, ‘this is gonna change the game.’
Viral: TikTok user Desiree shared the trick on May 7; it’s been viewed 5.9 million times
Desiree notes that her disposal is giving off a ‘bad smell,’ so she’s hoping the simple cleaning method will make it go away.
She instructs those watching to ‘shove a bunch of ice down into your garbage disposal,’ demonstrating as she pushes ice into the hole and leaves more around the outside of the drain.
Desiree then lets the disposal run, filming as it grinds up the pieces of ice.
‘Then, while it’s running, you turn on the hot water,’ she says, turning on her tap so that water runs over the ice in the disposal.
The hot water runs for a few seconds before dark, dirty water begins to rise up from the disposal, swirling in a disgusting puddle.
Steps: The woman filming fills the disposal with ice, runs it, and then adds hot water
Gross! The ice cleans the disposal, and the water makes all the muck rise up into the sink
‘Oh my god, it’s actually working, are you kidding me?’ she says in amazement.
Others have been amazed, too, with the video racking up 1.5 million likes and counting.
According to several plumbing websites, it’s the ice — not the hot water — that’s doing the cleaning.
The ice is hard enough to sharpen the blades and scrubs them clean, getting into tough areas inside the disposal.
The trick seems to work just as well without running hot water over it: Once the ice melts, it will take the dirt with it.
Normally, hot water is not recommended for garbage disposals, since it can send oil and grease down the drain and cause clogging.