Barbecue Foods That Can Clog Your Drains

Grease is the headline. Bacon fat, burger drippings and marinade oil pour down as liquid and solidify in the drain line where it cools, catching everything that follows.

Corn husks, celery, onion skins and melon rinds are fibrous enough to wrap around a disposal's impellers instead of grinding. Bones and fruit pits are worse, they just chew up the unit.

Starches are sneaky. Potato salad, pasta and rice swell in water and turn into paste in the trap.

Scrape plates into the trash, pour grease into a can, and run cold water with the disposal. If the sink is already draining slow after the party, we clear kitchen lines same day.