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venson

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Hi,

I suppose I qualify as a card carrying capitalist but sometimes I wonder. I've just come upon the Drawer Vac. It's half vacuum, half garbage disposal?

Check out the link below and tell me if this would work for you in your kitchen.

Venson


http://drawervac.com/
 
" . . . What ever happened to a dustpan?"

They hooked that up to a central vac too. :)
 
By the same logic, why not just use a sweeping brush and a rug beater to clean floors & carpets? And use Candles made from tallow to light our homes? And have massive holes in the walls to contain fires to barely warm anything?

It's a modern idea for a modern home, and I like the idea of it, just sweeping spilled stuff from kitchen worktops into a drawer where they're taken away, rather than trying to sweep the stuff into your hand or into a cloth or something to transport it over to a bin...

I'd rather make my own of course, but that's just me... :P
 
Cheap? Maybe . . .

The drawer vac can be used with your central vac system or an independent but dedicated vac that mounts under the counter. The other issue of cost is that they recommend this device for whisking away wet stuff too like peelings, etc. That requires a special catch-all to keep wet nasties from getting into the main tubing -- which of course they sell. I am only assuming that there'd be no issue with odors.

The company thinking all this up is Hughes Central Vacuum Concepts. The link's below.

http://hughescentralvacuumconcepts.com/WhatsNew.html
 
"Seemed like a good idea at the time, Sweetums"

"Pardon me while I tear apart the central vac to find your wedding ring and false fingernails" "Yikes, smells like a small animal died in here"


 


How embarrassing - it's manufactured in Ontario Canada about a hour's drive from me.


 


Frankly I can't imagine that anyone is so accurate as to sweep every speck of countertop debris into this small dustpan-sized pull-out contrivance without some landing on the floor.,,where standard cupboard baseboard kickspace central vacuum inlets have been a useful accessory for years now.


 


Shown sweeping away a few flakes fallen out of a bowl of cereal ready to eat. Why bother? Just dump them in the bowl...are Milady's countertops that filthy?


 


Their own long video demonstrates the inadequate airflow, with anything heavier than cornflakes having to be encouraged with a 'flick of the fingers'. And you'd fall in to the habit of opening it a second time to be sure the heavier stuff was sucked away...buttered toast crumbs will stick to the tray. Severe OCD'ers would spend hours checking the crumb status.


I hate to think of the stinking rot that will soon emanate after a few careless ingestions of salad cuttings as shown, when one neglects to empty the 'wet interceptor' bucket regularly - a labour intensive activity on its own judging from the one shown.


 


Oh well, at least it comes with a week's worth of neighborhood bragging rights before its negative aspects would naturally cause the inconvenience to fall into dis-use.


 


Suggested retail price - $99. On sale for US$69.95.


or


Hollow-handled Plastic dustpan you could install yourself or use manually...~$4 at the dollar store.


When I get this lazy or infirm just put me out of my misery, please.


Dave.

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Seems Silly....

In all my years on this planet, I've never had a moment in the kitchen where I felt the need of anything like this.

I can also foresee that putting one of these units in a house with kids is asking for trouble. They would find a way to clog it for sure - I'm betting within nanoseconds.

At best, it's one more thing to clean. And at worst, since it's cabinet-mounted, it could easily contribute to an unsanitary condition inside that particular cabinet. Anyone who's ever had an in-cabinet garbage can (as I did in a St. Charles kitchen I once owned) knows how meticulous you have to be to avoid nasties and odors.

I admit I'm an old fogey - I don't even like garbage disposals. I've often said, "I have a firm policy in life - I don't throw garbage in the sink, and I don't wash dishes in the garbage pail."
 
I Second Dave!

"Oh well, at least it comes with a week's worth of neighborhood bragging rights before its negative aspects would naturally cause the inconvenience to fall into dis-use."

In other words: Trash Masher, Part II.
 
I think it is a good idea if you were running a catering or cake decorating business out of your home. A friend of mine decorates cakes and has crumbs everywhere in her kitchen. Personally, when I wipe down the counters and there are crumbs, I just open the dishwasher door and sweep everything into it.
 
Um.. spare a thought for nursery children and the elderly - this is an ideal invention for people preparing food. Also restaurants/commercial kitchens could probably use it in some applications. I'd sooner have one located under my work bench in the shed when I'm shaving wood - wouldn't that it be a lot easier to just pull out a drawer and scoop all the wood shavings into a tray with a vacuum attached to it?

It's not all about people being lazy.
 
Dave, I third!!!!!

Yeah, it's a neat idea, but, to affirm with Sandy's observation, I have children, and they have clogged up a shop vac! Just imagine what they could do with this!Need I say more.
 
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I'm not saying that this wouldn't be nice or useful in some places, but I'm not so sure about in a kitchen with children. I could see them spilling juice on the counter and, instead of wiping it up, taking their hand and "sweeping" the liquid into the vac. In the mind of a child, this would be logical if other "messes" on counter were pushed into it. Why wouldn't this one.
 
One Thought Occurs to Me....

....This thing turns one operation into two, doesn't it?

If you have a food mess on the counter, you could just bat it into the sink's disposal, and then wipe the counter.

With this gadget, you bat it into the vacuum tray, wipe the counter, and then you have the vacuum tray to clean, unless you want the traces of food debris to harden up and get smelly.

Owners of this marvel will be convenienced to death, I think.
 
I wonder . . .

Speaking of convenience and clean, I wonder if the thing can be popped out of position and put in the dishwasher.
 
Yes, speaking as a representative from the UK - not many schools have the money to spend on waste disposal units - so again, this is a cheaper way of getting rid of dirt on workspaces. Plus can you chuck wood shavings, bolts, bits of metal down a sink disposal?
 
"This thing turns one operation into two, doesn't it

In the way you describe, batting stuff into the sink, wouldn't work for us in this house, as the sink is on the wall opposite to the preparation area, so, you'd have to be pretty skilled to bat a load of crumbs into the sink behind you... :&#92

The actions we'd have to do are to move the spill together, then brush it off into a cloth or our hand, then take it over to the bin (so the sink isn't blocked with food debris), this tray thing would reduce the steps to just sweeping the spills into the tray, and that's it, cos either way you'd end up throwing out the rubbish collected anyway, so, either way it'd all go in the bin...

Young minds, Fresh ideas....
 

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