Can You Pour Soup Down the Toilet: What to Do with Leftovers from the First Course

16.04.2023 16:19

Experienced housewives know how many ingredients need to be used to prepare a particular dish.

But sometimes it happens that an unfortunate mistake in quantity is made or you have to eat lunch away from home – and so an “extra” pot of soup appears in the refrigerator.

If there is no one willing to eat cabbage soup or borscht, most often the contents of the pot are sent to the toilet.

It would seem that the sewer system can tolerate anything, especially soup – a liquid dish that can easily disappear into the depths of the toilet.

However, in reality, everything is not quite like that, or rather, not at all like that – food remains that get into wastewater cause rotting, which disrupts the well-coordinated operation of the sewage system.

A plate of borscht
Photo: © Belnovosti

The risk increases if the pan contained large pieces of meat, vegetables or other ingredients.

In this case, there is a high probability that the water in the toilet will rise, taking all the waste with it.

Instead, carefully drain the liquid and throw the solid components in the trash.

Author: Elena Shimanovskaya Editor of Internet resources