for those of ordinary skill in the art having the benefit of this disclosure fig1 is a sectional view illustrating portions of an exemplary food waste disposer embodying certain teachings of the present disclosure the food waste disposer 100 includes a food conveying section 102 and a grinding mechanism 110 which is disposed between the food conveying section and a motor section 104 the food conveying section 102 includes an inlet for receiving food waste and water the food waste is conveyed to the grinding mechanism 110 and the motor section 104 includes a motor 119 imparting rotational movement to a motor shaft 118 to operate the grinding mechanism 110 the grinding mechanism 110 includes a stationary grind ring 116 that is fixedly attached to an inner surface of the housing of the grind mechanism 110 a rotating shredder plate assembly 112 is rotated relative to the stationary grind ring 116 by the motor shaft 118 to reduce food waste delivered by the food conveying section to small pieces when the food waste is reduced to particulate matter sufficiently small it passes from above the shredder plate assembly 112 and along with water passing through the food conveying section is then discharged from the disposer fig2 and 3 are top and bottom perspective views respectively showing the shredder plate assembly 112 and motor shaft 118 fig4 is an exploded view of the shredder plate assembly 112 and shaft 118 the particular shredder plate assembly 112 illustrated in fig2 4 includes multiple stacked plates to provide a plurality of levels for multi stage chopping or cutting of food waste the illustrated embodiment includes two stacked shredder disks 121.