Evolution Compact

I’ve been running this unit every day for the last five years. It runs flawlessly. Nice and quiet. My wife is cleaning out an aquarium and got some gravel into the unit. One piece got stuck inside. It was an easy fix all I had to do was use the tool supplied and crank it back-and-forth to free the stone. Hit the reset button and way it goes again. Would highly recommend this unit.

Es muy buen aparato, de buena calidad, medianamente ruidoso y muy fácil de instalar, el problema con estos aparatos radica en las tuberías. Me parece que no es apto para México pues aquí las tuberías no necesariamente son lo suficientemente gruesas para que los residuos no las tapen. Mi experiencia fué de 2 veces tapadas, yo lo usaba pensando que trituraba todo, no tiene cuchillas, (es un sistema diferente del que dicen las descripciones, giran unos tambores a gran velocidad y los residuos se desbaratan al chocar con las paredes y entre sí, tuvo que venir el plomero a destapar. Por consiguiente lo uso muy poco y para pocos deshechos porque hay muchos que no se pueden desintegrar. Si van a adquirirlo asegúrense de no lidiar con este problema. Cómo último comentario mi hija descartó su uso. Se tapó el drenaje de su casa como en cuatro ocasiones.

This model cannot be used in the UK, the UK Model is Evolution 100. My Evolution Compact was supplied from the US, with electrical cabling removed and no serial number.

Update: It's 2024 and this same unit is still going strong. It even carried over through a kitchen remodel last year since it was in perfect working order. Other than getting a new baffle for very cheap all else is original. Great disposal. ***Important Note!*** Don't do what I did and forget to knock out the dishwasher hookup plug before you get the whole thing mounted up under your sink. That is, of course, as long as you're using the dishwasher hookup. I was lucky enough to remember before I ran my dishwasher, but it was a pain to knock it out under the sink. The previously installed disposal in my kitchen was an Insinkerator Badger 5 of unknown age. It failed in typical fashion due to internal seals breaking down and eventually causing water to leak through the bottom of the case. The best thing about this new unit was that it went in place with no adjustments to the rest of the plumbing. It was an exact fit for the Badger. I replaced the sink flange with all the new mounting hardware, which was perfectly simple. The new unit is relatively quiet and seems effective at disposing what little waste I use it for. I will say that it seems substantially more quiet when actually grinding up food waste than the Badger was, and I'm sure it is due to the combination of sound-dampening and grinding efficiency design improvements over such models. In my opinion, nobody *needs* to spend hundreds more for a disposal quieter than this one for anything more than bragging rights. It's a machine designed to pulverize your food waste into a slurry to go down your drains, and, from what I can tell, the sound of water running in my sink is almost louder than the sound of this unit grinding up my week-old leftovers. I will speak to the rate of water draining through the rubber baffle, as I've seen some people complain about it. In my own experience, I've seen no issues with slow drainage. My sink faucet has an aerator as most down nowadays, which reduces water flow. However, I tested it without the aerator using full water flow from the tap, and still had no problems with water draining through the baffle. If I dump a huge pot of water into the sink, does it drain more slowly than a regular sink drain? Absolutely. That's to be expected. The baffle does have a smaller opening than my previous unit for sure, and I do often have to push food scraps through, but this doesn't bother me. The smaller opening does make the unit quieter by creating a barrier of water as stated in the literature, and it's also less prone to the garbage slurry splashing back out while operating, which did sometimes happen with my Badger. The only tricky part of install was getting the quick mount collar rotated far enough to fully latch. I ended up using a large screw driver slipped between one of the mounting screws and the throat of the flange as a lever to hold the sink flange in place while I rotated the quick-mount collar in the opposite direction with the jam-release tool. This is critical since I've read several reviews around the internet where people had their disposer fall off several weeks after installation. I'd bet it was because they didn't fully engage the collar until it reached the stops. This can be a simple thing to overlook. I nearly did it myself. My previous disposal was hard-wired to a switch inside the cabinet under the sink. Not exactly an ideal arrangement. I rewired the switch as a GFCI outlet and bought the power cord kit ( InSinkErator CRD-00 Power Cord Kit ) for the new disposal along with the InSinkErator STS-00 Dual Outlet SinkTop Switch . This was a great choice and now makes using the disposer much simpler than opening the cabinet, hunting for the switch, dumping food waste, hunting for the switch in the cabinet again, and shutting the door. I know, first-world problems. If I discount the time it took for the electrical work I had to do (about two hours), the disposal install itself took no more than an hour. I'm pretty handy, but if all someone is doing is a direct replacement for another Insinkerator, it should be a fairly simple job. My only minor complaint is that this unit didn't include a power cord, which is a separate purchase if one is not hard-wiring it. In my case I was moving from hard-wired to plug-in installation. Most installations of disposals seem to be going to plug-in judging by the modern homes I've seen over the past few years. I do realize the benefit of waste reduction however in not including the cord for those who would be hard-wiring. It would simply be another part headed for the landfill or squirreled away in a homeowner's miscellaneous junk drawer. Simply be sure you know which type of install you've got and buy the extra parts if needed. I spent a fair bit of time trying to decide between this Insinkerator and a couple units from Waste King which were less expensive. In the end I chose the Insinkerator for the benefit of a direct replacement for the Badger 5, and also seeing a good number of people complaining about failures of the Waste King EZ Mount system used to attach the disposal to the sink flange. There was a lot of talk of plastic parts failing, and I decided that the tried and true Insinkerator mounting system (all metal) seemed like a better choice in the long run. Time will tell if this disposal proves to be reliable and lasts an expected number of years.

Amazingly quiet!!! This Evolution Compact 3/4 hp ISE unit replaced an ISE model 333 1/2 hp unit purchased at Price Club 17 years ago. The latter unit stood up to raising a family of six and finally quit being reliable (bearings in motor going out). The new "compact" one is rated higher in power, is about the same size, and (possibly because it is attached to a cast-iron sink embedded in a tiled sink top.....) it is super quiet by comparison to its predecessor. If the radio is playing in the background and the water is turned off at the sink, you may not hear that the unit is still running. The new design of the rubber baffle in the intake throat eliminates outward splash when grinding food waste. It also absorbs a lot of the sound of food being ground up in the grinding chamber. It also is not part of the mounting gasket that seals the disposal to the drain flange. Therefore, unlike the old design, if the rubber baffle ever tears you don't have to take apart the disposal-flange junction to replace it. You simply pull the torn baffle out from the top and put in the new one. (That easy removal feature also makes it nice for viewing the inside of the grinding chamber if you want to retrieve an object....just lift out the baffle and go for it) The only two downsides for this unit: 1. The new rubber throat-baffle slows the passage of water from the sink into the unit and down the drain....so if you are in a hurry it takes a few seconds longer to empty the sink. (Not really a negative for most people) 2. The new stopper that plugs the drain flange, allowing the sink to be filled with water, is a solid plug. The one it replaced (from the 17 year old unit) had two positions: one that allowed filling the sink, and one that allowed water to drain but partially blocked the disposal's throat from an inadvertent dropping of objects into the dosposal. In reality the new baffle helps to accomplish that function....so a solid stopper is not all that bad. Fortunately for me the new ISE still uses the original stainless steel drain flange design, so I didn't have to remove and replace that. The removal and installation was done in 15 minutes.....and I can still use the old adjustable stopper, or I can use the new solid one. Unless this company has started to use cheaper materials or shoddy assembly processes I expect this new unit to outlast me.