Turning Food Scraps into Fertilizer in 5 Hours?
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I always have a lot of food scraps after a big garden harvest or meal prep session. Sometimes too much to throw in my compost bin or vermicomposting system. So I tested out an electric composter to see how effective it is at making compost from kitchen waste to add to my soil, raised beds, worm bins, you name it.
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Sadly it doesn't lower greenhouse gas emissions at all, actually it creates more as dehydrating takes alot of energy. Just compost or recycle your Biodegradables. Plus there are cheaper machines available from more established manufacturers that should be around for years and possibly supply parts for repairs. I don't think Lomi will be around for long.
That machine was a Vitamix, not a Lomi. it's from the brand foodcycler if I'm not wrong. I get what you mean but I honestly think this is more meant for appartment dwellers with little space and no composting service near.
I actually just received mine in the mail today and made my first batch. I love gardening and have a fairly good size garden every year. Its just me and my husband so often times fresh veggies will spoil faster than I'd like. I was looking for an easy way to reuse our kitchen scraps and help fill my garden beds at the same time.
I've been watching Mary's Nest, who's aim is a no waste kitchen, and a lot of good tips and recipes for sure, If you have a LOT of veggie scraps, you can make base soups and divide what seems like you would run out of space for the food,. but after your soup base, leftovers from a big canning session, there is the compost bin! I'm thinking between the garden, and canninng, I will be busy busy. A good busy! I appreciate all your helpful videos! Thanks!
I like this idea for small places with no outdoor garden. I honestly just throw my scraps in a bucket add bokashi (so it doesn’t smell) and soil on top. I have three that I rotate in between. I also sometimes put scraps on my balcony to dry then i just grind them. I would buy this if it was cheaper bc it is convenient.
Very cool, I'd invest in it, my extra large compost is smelly full and takes work turning, and 5 hrs is a short time to turn a big bucket into useable scrapes immediately ;)
I tried adding ground, dehydrated food scraps to my potting soil this year. The result : struggling seedlings with yellowing leaves. There could have been mainly reasons for this but my leading theory is that because the matter hasn't been decomposed by fungus, bacteria, insects in any way (just dehydrated), it actually sequesters nitrogen as it begins to break down in the soil. This suggests (if my theory is true) this is not a good thing to add directly to plants until it has been broken down by nature. Let me know what you think.
I think you are right. That's also why you can't plant most veggies on unfinished compost piles.
I have one and it is life changing. I also have a worm bin and a tumbler, but it gets cold here, and the worms can handle just so much. I just made a lot of scraps with canning, so the unit has been in use at least twice a day. I love it!
Hi, Were you able to use the output of the foodcycler to your wormbin? I wanted to know if the dehydrated pulverized bones and meat products are ok to be fed to worms(particularly that it wont kill them). I normally just feed my worm veggy scraps only
Interesting little machine. It's like a combo of a dehydrator (oven) and blender with a few niche uses for those who don't have easy access to create compost or worm bins. I'd just use my oven (probably on lowest - medium setting) and blender though which creates more anyway.
Toaster oven. A full size oven would take so much power it wouldnt be beneficial for the environment at that point
More like a garbage dehydrator. Why couldn't you just put that stuff on a 1/4 wire mesh in the sun. No power required.
I like you idea.
Technically that is exactly what that $350 thing is.. but only with a "tumbler". If you have a good dehydrator designed with proper air flow.. you'll get the exact same results. The Excalibur 9 tray Dehydrator uses 600/watts per hour on high. so that's roughly 1.8K watts in a 3 hour period. Will it completely dehydrate all those same foods like this Decomposer? Probably not all of them.. Different foods/different thicknesses take a different amount of time. But there is something else going on in a "natural decomposing" pile..and that's all the good things that are culturing. In a rapid dehydrating scenario.. you most unlikely cultivating that in a 3 hour winow. I'm not saying that the dehydrated food wont be OK to throw into your soil mix... BUT IT IS NOT THE SAME AS NATURAL COMPOSTED FOOD!
No sun in an apartman.
Maggots
Not a composter! Just consumes loads of electricity to chop up and dehydrate food waste. You still have to then compost the remains. Can you use the remains as fertilizer? No. See ua-cam.com/video/qISqZo62dbg/v-deo.html
I watched the video and the guy used the ecochips right away. The instructions according to another site I'm looking at say to wait 90 days before planting anything. This could still be a good option for people who don't want to send things to landfill. Whether things are biodegradable or compostable makes no difference in a landfill where they are sandwiched between plastics and recycling and all other kinds of non-biodegradable waste. But this thing can't break down beef bones so I don't know what the point is.
I've given up on traditional composting because I get too many rodents and ants. It doesn't get hot enough where I live to repel pests or break down (even after 2 years of forking it around). But the comments on this thread were really helpful. I realized I can't just add it to my garden. I'll mix it in with dirt and let it fully finish decomposing before using it. I've been saving veggie scraps till I have enough to fill a blender, then pureeing them and dumping them in various spots in my yard. I'll keep doing that till I decide to buy this, but I'm probably going to buy this this year. Thanks for the video!
Happy this helped!
Do you mix grass clippings with your compost? If not, you need to, because that's what makes it really break down well.
@@Melissa0774 They need 3 things. 1. Learn how to compost material, 2. A nitrogen source as well as carbon. They have to keep the pile moist, or it will not break down for a very long time. I compost over 1500 bags of leaves a year and all the waste from a community garden. Most of our gardeners don't even buy fertilizer, just the compost I make.
Recapping: The things needed to compost air, or oxygen, moister, a carbon source, a nitrogen source, and the knowledge of how composting happens.
This sort of thing makes great cents to me. 1 - I live in an apartment. 2 - I have a very small balcony where I grow all my plants during the warm to hot part of our year. The other part of our year is cold - Oct to April. 3 - With this I could keep all the dry food scrapes in a bucket with no smell to bother my wife or anyone else. 4 - Then come warm weather I could compost it all into a usable soil.
Yeah I can see apartment dwellers using this quite a bit
I completely agree. Very useful for apartment dwellers. Good reason to get more plants. Urban composting in Montreal is in the middle ages. A lot of restaurants use our signature brown bins as maggot farms on major city streets, and on hot days, it can really stink. Yes urban composting for people without gardens works to reduce garbage waste, but it only works when done properly. People throw their trash in other people’s brown bins, and then they are not picked up by the city, and left to rot for another week. Many apartment dwellers will not carry them back upstairs, so they will litter our sidewalks. Then we wonder if the private contractor disposes of it properly, or just dumps it all in a landfill.
Completely agree! I think we'll be getting this as well.
Liz P I have one! No fruit flies, no smell, and I just dump it on top of my plants after! It’s great
@@epicgardening Is that what they paid you to say?
Its a complete waste of time! and just damages the compost!
I watched (wasted my time 😂) 2 other videos where they didn't show the beginning stage of scraps. All along trusty Epic had a perfect review ! 👍 Thank You!!!! ❤💛💚💙💜🖤
Could you review the kalea composter? It has separate bins for different phases and is not just a dehydrator and shredder it seems.
I have an apartment so this was one of the ideas I was looking into because I got sick of my kitchen scraps stinking up in the trash when I want to compost anyways. I found one on facebook market place that was used and will be getting that. Although it is still pricey, It will be useful until I can do a real compost and I can sell it or I can just continue to use this
I just bought one through my municipality. I had been considering something like this seeing the Lomi ads, but when my local municipality offered a deal I jumped at my chance. I haven't had a chance to test drive it yet, but I'm excited!
Really useless contraption, imo. It makes the scraps sterile, it's $400, huge and uses electricity. How does this make sense to anyone who gardens?
Couldn’t agree more. I’ll pass.
Great for those in condos or apartments that cannot have work bins or other composting means
how is it making the scraps sterile? besides i believe the suggestion is to mix the output with some top soil to make a medium that is usable.
This is machine which feed stupid modern people which are hungry for more "new" and "inovative" technology, the more we technology produce dumbe and dumber future generations will be (because they don't like old ways to make something with your arms and to use your brain to figure out something inovative, all that will replace "modern new machines"
@@said.skopal ok boomer
Whoa this is so cool! I might text you with a lawn question after this.
And what do you mean what’s the point! This is one if the most genius ways to compost your left over scraps and still get along with your family I have ever seen. A lot of people hate composting or the idea of it.
This is so helpful and I like your videos!
It's not composting; it's dehydrating; food scraps still have to be composted after they are reconstituted. Those machines are $350 to $500 a pop. Way too rich for my blood!
I typically use an air-fryer and then a blender.
Fantastic review! I was wondering abut this I could not undertrained how it can make real compost in few hours I have 3 bins and all are cooking but I sometimes like to bender compost, I think that is better and much cheaper... Thanks I appreciate this
Yes I’m very interested in this type of product! Are there better options available now on the market? I would love to see another update video on this subject
Aside from the price that is a totally GREAT garden appliance to have. I got one of those outdoor manual tumblers but gave up on it.....An open compost pile in my yard is not something I'm willing to do (rodents). Thank you for sharing!!!
You're welcome!
I’ve committed vermicide… twice. The heat here is not conducive to worm survival, and my compost has been clumping so bad it’s actually broken my tumbler, combine that with the household moving to more at home cooking has been producing more food scraps. I appreciate you doing this review. I’m trying to make a decision on this one or not.
My husband eats a dozen bananas a day. This will be a great option for reducing the peels because the amount I'm saving from the landfill is going to be much more manageable. I have no yard. I've been trying to dry them out by hanging the peels on a fence but they take a long time and it's really wet in the PNW.
Ok Nicole/Karen… I don’t have the right to put a compost here. I’ll do whatever I want in my own house. If I don’t want maggots in my green bin located in my garage… we’ll I do me and you do you!. Love my vitamix food cycled so does my plants!
I really like this idea. My question is...will the dehydrated food scraps still have the same nutritional value as with traditional composting. Maybe sun drying the scraps will also work...longer process but cheaper? Thanks
Sometimes my worm bins get too wet... pre-dehydrating the food is an approach I hadn't considered. Right now I add shredded cardboard. Purchasing a food dehydrator seems like it makes more sense to me than buying this product, though as you can use it for more than just one purpose.
Yep at £70 a dehydrator that can be used for other things also rather than £400 and only one purpose and absolutely massive
I think its a good idea, even if you have a backyard. In the winter, I'm really not going to want to go dig holes in frozen ground to bury my stuff, my dogs would did it up anyways. So this I see as a small compact unit that I can use all year round and store the dried chips in a 5 gallon bucket. When its time to make my garden, I'll just soak it in water and mash it together with my dirt and plant away. I think its a great idea even if you have a lot of land.
i saw a video where it would compost some types of plastic
Is it safely able to do that?
Also, what would the carbon footprint be of manufacturing these units, and the power taken from the grid when using this be, when compared to the benefits?
We use this machine daily and we love it. The power consumption is minimal and it’s more green than letting it decomposes in the landfill and releasing methane. I recommend it to any gardeners.
I doubt it’s more green, even if the energy is low. Your scraps are producing a ton of methane and many landfills are now capturing the methane to use as power.
I'm binge watching most of your videos, I love them! I would also love to see if you could interview a restaurant that uses their food scraps to make biogas! Its very interesting and i would love to know how it works!
or college waste - people struggle to know which bin to put the yogurt pot half full of rice or yogurt and cleaning staff just tip it all into the same bin at the end of the day - training needs to be given to cleaning / housekeeping staff but at the end of the day when the garbage trucks are broken down it all often goes into the same lorry .. i dont blame them really - sometimes you can save scraps and boxes and bins until you are tripping over all the stuff until your life gets really unpleasant / annoying - maybe we should just have different sack colours for food, plastic recyclable plastic and cardboard
Over 3 years since you uploaded this Kevin. I would be curious to know if you still use this. Thanks!
should it be grounded after its dry to add it to soil, and how please?
Home here in the Caribbean TRINIDAD and Tobago 🇹🇹🇹🇹 my mom leaves whatever ends she uses until it starts to break down then throws it in her small garden....👍👍👍
Dear Epic Gardening, what kind of nutrients are still in the compost
due to the sterilization? Is there anyway to find out the differences between vermicomposting and regular composting compared to the food cycler. this would be interesting to know. I would use this for the compost that were already cooked like bones but that is it. However, bokashi composting can do this.
It's not compost. It's dehydrated, chopped up scraps. Not much value there.
It's not compost it's just dried out and chopped and still has to be composted
It's a huge scam. Don't fall for it.
This *is* quite pricey. If you can afford it, it does have some advantages... It reduces the size of your trash quickly. The process is pretty quick and, according to the review here, not costly in terms of electricity. Then you can add it to your compost pile and/ or you can add it to your garden soil.
BTW: The dehydrating process retains a food's original nutritional value, but in smaller quantities.
I believe that for those of us who have the space and time to do it the "old fashioned way" this machine is not that helpful. Again, if you have 400$ in disposable cash, this isn't a scam, just a fancy way of doing something you can do for a lot less.
@@gcabr7412 $400 or sit it in concrete in the sun for a day? 🤔
Or a non functional food dehydration machine that didn't make the cut? Hence a scam.
Not to mention if you actually thought it would be great at fertiliser, you'd be wrong as beneficial bacteria hasn't broken down anything, all acids and oil are still present and as soon as you "fertilise" it'll re-hydrate and break down 10x slower leaving a bad smell and death plants. A SCAM. And a great way to introduce BAD BACTERIA.
i want to see garden growth results with the Vitamix compost / plants with and plants with out the compost in the same soil
How interesting! I could see this helping I am cheap... I might just use a blender, por it on a sheet and make “compost leather” thanks for sharing this!
Jeannie scarcer how did it work for you? Another apartment dweller is curios. I hate not being able to compost here
I'd like to try this by getting a large garbage can, drilling holes around the sides, and filling w/dirt and Foodcycler waste, 5 to 1 ratio, and letting it sit for several months. Thoughts??
Do yo think drying the scraps in the kitchen oven will work the same? ( not the chopping)
Look I want to see actual results can it actually be compost immediate fertilizer or does it need to decompose first because it sounds like it needs to decompose first.
This is just a big dehydrator. The fact it's still chunks means it's not been composted at all
Which is why the instructions say to leave it in soil for a minimum of 90 days before usage. That way it can start composting.
Interesting, but seems like I could maybe do the same using my dehydrator and my bullet. Still interesting to see more ways to encourage people to create less waste.
Agreed!
It LOOKS really cool. I'm not sure if it would be worth it, but it's an interesting idea. I wonder: in mixing the dried bits into soil, does it then reconstitute and turn basically back into fruit and veggie scraps? If I mix that into some soil for a potted plant, is it going to stink three or four days after I start watering it?
It will stink and mold as soon as you pour water into it
This is what I’ve been needing in my life!
FIY Choice, an Australian consumer advocacy group, gave this a Shonky award specifically because of its lifetime cost, actual increase in landfill waste (as an appliance), and the horrible sound it makes.
Curious if you tried putting the output of this into your worm bin. Since it is so dry, does it mean you don't need to add as much dry carbon with the food scraps?
I was thinking the same thing so I am going to start a worm bin and use our FoodCycler end product in it.
Hi, maybe this is an uncommon question: Can I use the FoodCycler to freeze-dry food? I like crunchy freeze-dried strawberry or ananas pieces. :-)
Can the output be added directly to a raised bed? I'm seeing conflicting information on 'curing' in soil.
It totally makes sense to me. I am never going to do a compost bin, even with a back yard. My son gave this as a birthday gift. I am new to gardening, and I started with COVID, it is my therapy that keeps me sane. This has been the most thoughtful and nice present I receive this year. Thanks Kevin
If you paid attention in science class this wouldn't make sense to you. Ignorance is bliss, isn't it.
I like to compost and use red wigglers because science is so cool.Thanks for sharing.
right! lol Same here and I am notill, composting action naturally occurring in the soil. idk why on Earth you would nee more than notill and a worm composter/worm farm setup
I'm a big red wiggler fan myself
I'd think about getting this as an apartment dweller because it's not very big and I could use it for my houseplants.
Yeah mixing into houseplant soil when repotting could be a nice option!
@@epicgardening yeah if you wanna stink your apartment and grow mold in your pot
Not a thing I would use but may be useful to a far north climate household that doesn’t have the benefit of solar energy to make compost all year. Stockpile in the cold month for a large traditional compost in the summer. I may be way of but that is what came to mind. Thanks for the info.
Yeah, i could see it making sense in the north
so would this be the green or brown part of the compost? Im wondering to balance what's fed to the garden.
brown....this could be an alternative source of carbon creator for your your compost bin.
You can clean and dry things like banana peels and egg shells then blend it and you get powder instead of flakes.
Seems to be a cheaper less effective version of the excel bioneer waste converter machine. Would love to see if those work!!
Just looked it up...yep!
I'm really excited for the Lomi and Kalea that both make finished compost instead of compost starter
I saw this being sold in Costa Rica for $400. Thats about half a month of a middle class income. I see how it can make sense if you have no other option and you had the money... For me, hot composting in a sack in a bucket in the garage works. I dont have to fork any thing, just toss the sack around once a day to get it all mixed up and add equal amounts of organic waste and dry matter (dry leaves and dry rich earth for the microorganisms). If I had a yard and didnt want to compost, it would make more sense just put all that stuff in the grownd and let that water and nutrients go into the soil.
Can you just dehydrate your food scraps in a regular dehydrator and get a head start in hot composting from there?
My town has a serious landfill problem…I would love to see my community get their hands on these!
This does not change anything about the gas released by decomposition. Its creating more green house gas
what town is that?
Couldn't I just pop my scraps into the oven on warm for a couple hours and the toss everything into a blender?
This is pricey, but what other ways can a gal compost whose deathly afraid of worms(and really anything without legs). I liked this set up cause there's no wiggles (I can't even stand to say worm so I refer to anything without legs as wiggles). So what other options are a little more affordable that doesn't involve wiggles?
Wouldn’t it just make more sense to just use a dehydrated and then blend it in a vita mix? 🤔
Yea or an oven on warm for a few hours, right?
That would be more work….this appears to do everything for you.
Good idea, I should compare how.much differences of electricity and time and price between dehydrator grinder and this $300 machine.....I already use this machine in the past and it's worked wonderfully, but 2 broke down cause I put too much bone in it...my bad
Probably if u like stinky smell?
@@CrystalSergeant spot on, no one would transfer from dehydrator to vitamix
Does it smell when it's heating up all that food waste?
I've considered products like this before for winter composting. I live in Northern Canada and we can't compost in the winter (-40F - not even the hottest of composting methods work in the cold months), red wigglers don't survive (and my wife won't let me have a worm bin indoors), bokashi requires burying when our soil is frozen, so it might fit my niche.
If the food is off then yeah it's gonna stink!
No! Once it is in the food cycler you don’t smell anything at all. Not even a faint smell. That is my favorite part about it!
yeah i mean, interesting 'gadget' but no. for many reasons other than just the energy usage. you mentioned avacado and cucumber, we'll you've just made chips you could eat. why throw those away? also some other stuff in there could be reused. pretty much just a fancy dehydrator. yes @rick blaylock wire mesh in the sun and you've kinda got the same thing. many other reasons but not really for me. thanks for the video tho! ;)
He said the cucumber was over ripe so it could not be eaten
Is it good? How long did you use machine?
I bought the vitamix one but ended up returning it. PAIN IN THE BUTT to clean even in the dishwasher. I got a tumble composter instead. I wanted to love it... I just couldn't.
This product is amazing. I feel like I will finally be able to actually stick to regular composting with this one. Worms gross me out. And outdoor compost bins always attract vermin and rodents
i think that this would be a good thing on a ship or a place where u might have allot of food garbage and you dont want it to rot that fast so dehydrating it would make sense but might need to be a bigger package and run on steam as u can use the excess heat from the engines onboard the ship to heat the food scraps, one of the biggest problem for a ship is that food tend to rot fast so u generally use a garbage treatment system that in the end trow it over board that aren't that good for the Eco-system making a system like this would solve that and the food waste could be stored(until u get to land) or burned by the incinerator the metode would depend on the length a ship is out and about but military ship especially would benefit.
Does the fact it dehydrates that so quickly kill all the natural enzymes?
Curious is this would be good to turn into compost tea right away, in particular for indoor plants 🤔
@@jessh4016 Hah, sort of. Once composted the nutrients are much more available to breakdown into a compost tea with molasses to feed the beneficial bacteria. It’s used for feeding your plants just like you word with normal compost. There’s science behind it!
I’m in between Lomi and this Vitamix. Any suggestions?
its 100% edible leftovers going into the Vitamix food cycler. as long as you don't put rotten food or carbohydrates in it will the end results be edible and healthy for diabetic people?
So I have a question about this. I don't have the money to buy one of those machines, but could I end up with the same result if I use a standard jerky-maker-like dehydrator? If so, would I have to turn the scraps more frequently than if I were simply dehydrating food for eating?
It’s basically the same thing. Just leave them in a little longer than you would to eat so they totally dry out. Then grind it up and mix in to your soil because if you just sprinkle on top it turns moldy
maybe you can make potpourri out of citrus peal :P
Hahaha great idea
I think, I would grind that stuff and put it in my smoothies ! :)
3:45 You can put this out for guests you don't like as a snack haha!
Thank you for the review! I don't have a garden and cannot compost in my current living situation. I def. am interested in this to reduce food waste! I believe the electricity off set still outweighs adding to landfills which creates methane. I am curious if you have tried other companies products like Lomi or other ones out there, to really compare which is best. Love your videos! Thank you!
Decomposing food creates methane. You are just using extra energy to do what nature would do in a couple of months all while expending extra unnecessary energy. Not to mention the production process that created all the toxic plastics and metals. It is the exact opposite of earth friendly.
Small worm bin indoors is actually helpful to the environment, lomi definitely is not :(
I know this is an older video but I was drawn to it after watching a commercial by Pela for their Lomi composting machine. Heck I didn't even know such a thing existed so naturally I UA-camd electric composting and came across your video. Have you reviewed other such composters or was this the only one? I'd really love to see you do a whole segment on them. Compare them to each other and then to other composting options.
All of these machines are dehydrators that then grind down the dehydrated stuff. It does not compost the food. You *can* add it to your compost. You may also add it to your soil. The thing is that, though the dehydration process doesn't strip the food of its nutrients, it greatly reduces the quantity of those nutrients.
If you have the extra money and a lack of space for a compost pile (or even a tumbler composter or a vermicompost) this will produce a material that you can add to your garden soil. But it will not be compost. It will, with time, break down in the soil.
The attraction here is more "I am reducing my trash contribution to landfills" and less "I am enriching my garden soil."
@@gcabr7412 thanks for your input on this post. You nailed my reason for wanting something like this at the end of your comment. I am looking at it more for the reduced waste in the landfill and less methane gas. You seem pretty knowledgeable on the issue. I have a huge phobia of worms and any wiggle creature that doesn't have legs, lol. So I've never found a good way to be responsible with my waste that doesn't attract wiggles (that what I refer to any worm or maggot). Do you have any suggestions for someone in my shoes. Any suggested products or methods to aid in this that doesn't require wiggles.
@@Lexielouwho any answer between this and Lomi?
that's a pretty neat product. you can put the dried goods into a food processor, kevin.. to get it finer. ghee, it's very pricey. later, carmine p.
Does it deplete the nutrients though?
Thank you for this! Am totally getting this! I hate just throwing away scraps or fruit that has gone bad before I can use it. In a condo we cannot have anything like worm compost or even just a bin. And the wattage and energy usage is minimal, even running at the end of the day would be amazing
Hi. Do you actually use ur machine on daily basis?
Just wondering, what is the power consumption?
Who would this be good for? Me.
I would save up to get this.
Most rental houses in NZ are uninsulated (even with the new laws in place).
My house gets to 30°C+ in summer.
We can't even keep fruit in a fruit bowl because it'll go mouldy within a single day, all our fruit has to stay in the fridge. We also like those Tilda instant rice packs, but those have to stay in the fridge because again, they go mouldy in the cupboard, despite being factory sealaed.
I came home once during a heat wave (so our house probably would've been 40C while I was out) and a can of baked beans had exploded through my cupboard.
It's just THAT hot here.
So apartment composting is a big no go.
Ugh just imagine the smell...🤢
At the moment we keep our food scraps in the chest freezer till rubbish collection day.
Being able to compost for our own use would definitely be preferable.
Can't you do the same thing with a food dehydrator? Might take longer, but shouldn't it still work? And how about sun drying?
Good question, might even be better to use natural sources that will induce the right microbes to break down your waste.
These seem to catch a lot of heat but I think they could be good for people with limited space. Not everyone has acres to play and compost.
Interesting concept. Wondering if it contributed to the energy consumption issues?
Sure will, because all those people who buy one will throw this thing into the trash.
Great video, thank you as I’ve seen these advertised and wondered. For me, can’t see the value.
Great video , follow up with the soil video
Using a dehydrator and then chopping with a cheap food processor would not be de same?
I think it might be better to use it for dehydrating some mixed veg to store for cooking. Couldn't it be used for that? (Only that obviously, to keep it clean for veg. you'll eat)
Definitely could but I'd prob just use a dehydrator!
This is great for apartments. Worm bins aren’t always an option.
They are! Urban worm bag (: can especially be used for apartments! There is always a way! :D
No it's not!
It creates dead dry plant waste not good for the garden!
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 And still smells in the process. Win win haha
@@michielduijsings Plus you have to have another container as the compost dehydrator and killer is running! 🤦♂️🤣
So its been a year, I'd like to know your thoughts on this gadget now, or anybody who has one. Is it worth it or is it collecting dust on your counter top?
We use ours daily and have for almost 2 years.
For someone who have already bought one, the most environmentally friendly thing you can do is to allow it to collect dust at some weird place or storage unit you have. Actually using the machine is such a clear case of pointless waste of energy it's very environmentally unfriendly activity. To which extent your local electricity derives from eco-friendly sources is almost a completely moot point also as there is an obvious upper limit to the supply of that kind of electricity production.
The best move to help the environment an owner of this device can do right now is to do a video that the device is pointless and wastes energy and strongly disencourage others from buying it.
@@dataandcolours6284 No kidding! Those things cost an arm and a leg as well!
I don't think I would buy one. If I had $300, there are plenty of other things I would use that kind of money for. However, I do have a food dehydrator which might take longer; but, could still dehydrate veggie scraps. I've even used it to dehydrate strips of flank steak to make jerky way back when meat was more affordable. Right now, I freeze my veggie scraps to help get the breakdown started. Then I pop the frozen scraps in the blender with enough water to process. Then I put some of the slushy stuff in the worm bin and fill ice cube trays with the rest.
I did find the video interesting and if I had the funds, I'd probably buy one of those gadgets for the convenience.
Exactly what I'm looking for, electric composter reviewed by an actual Gardener 💚
Paid by the company? Or just stupid!
You pay to remove the water and life, then he puts it in his garden! 🤦♂️🤣 and has to wait for the water and life to come back to compost it! 🤦♂️🤣
WHY BOTHER ITS POINTLESS AND HAS TWO NEGATIVE EFFECTS! LOL
There's no such thing as an electric composter. You're a naive fool.
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 how is it pointless. he doesnt have to wait months
When you live in cold areas it takes months to decompose things, bro
What is this machine called and where can I get it pleaseeee
I would be willing to use the product if less energy were used. A possible solution would be to air dry your food waste first, then toss the dehydrated product into the processor for further extraction of moisture and to grind it into the final product.
Did they send it to you for reviewing? I'll do a review if they send it to me 😉 but it's too costly to buy!
Have u try Oklin's GG-02 composter yet