We just bought one and can't wait to use it. Having a plant dominant diet, we produce a lot of vegetable scraps, and I had been grinding them in an old food processor outside, even in winter. This will make life so much easier.
Correction, you cannot use meat in your SOIL, but if it has bones and meat in it, COMPOST IT after cycling it so it can decompose. Add the meat products to your compost pile after cycling it. This is technically not composed food, it’s sterilized dried food matter which needs to be decomposed still. Most of the plant matter can be added directly to the soil after cycling it, just compost the dehydrated animal foods in your real composter. Soil amendment doesn’t necessarily mean compost. It’s more technically a dried food MULCH. But I definitely put ALL of it in the compost bin after cycling it anyways, except when I have a lot of banana peels, I store them separate for direct potassium amending, and it works.
I've been using my food grinder for three years and I still love it! I ordered an extra bucket so I keep an empty bucket and lid next to my cooking space, and keep the machine in my pantry. Over time, the enamel wore off inside of the buckets, but while the machine was still under warranty, they replaced the buckets at no cost, even free shipping! I've learned that I can't stuff it with starchy food, especially in combination with stringy produce like asparagus or green bean waste; It's possible to create some concrete-like goop that will jam up the bucket. I've done some soaking and prying out and so far, I've gotten the buckets cleaned out from even the most stubborn goop. And NOW we are required to separate food waste from our regular trash, so this is the magic solution! I don't usually write comments online, but I am so glad I bought one of these things!
There’s a good reason why compost takes a while. The inside of a compost pile generates an enormous amount of heat because of fermentation from natural decomposition and the excess gas produced by the tiny soil fauna that consumes the food products and it needs constant rotation with a garden fork to aerate it and make the surfaces more accessible to soil fauna. But more than that, what this machine made compost is missing is worm castings. You need to make sure that plain old regular garden worms can digest the plant material and added soil. That’s where the compost gold comes from, worm castings (essentially “worm shit”). I also question how much energy you are using to make a small amount of “compost” and how nutrient dense it is after it’s run through the machine’s system. Any data on the energy usage and cost and the nutrient difference between the machine versus “Mother Nature?”
Steven L., people often swap use of fertilizer and compost, but even fertilizer is technically what it’s not per se without me knowing what nutrients remain in the food scraps after it’s processed to help “fertilize” the soil. But “composting” is also correct in that it is the biodegradation of organic material into the soil.
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@@cybrarian9 I'm just a layperson, but from a google search, supposedly fertilizer feeds the plants and compost feeds the soil food web. I always thought of poop as fertilizer, and would never consider it compost. In any event, this machine lessens food waste for people who would otherwise just throw it away. I'd guess people who already properly compost will keep on composting properly.
@ , my issue isn't that it's not a good thing, sure it is at least in spirt. What I'm curious to know is what is the relative energy expenditure of this machine to process a full tank of food scraps and what is the ultimate nutrient content of this "fertilizer" for what it produces and in the time and energy it takes to produce it. I'm all for saving the environment, making absolutely the best use of food scraps to compost or fertilize the plants and soil. I've done a fair amount of farming and gardening and shoveled just about every kind of animal manure one can on a farm. From an energy conservation standpoint, I'm just wondering how efficient and effective it is. But I'll research it and see. Maybe the cost is worth the machine in the long run as opposed to the energy required to get the food processed this way by Mother Nature.
@Allan Cortina, thanks. That would be appreciated. Please know that I'm not suggesting this is a "bad product." It's essentially a food dehydrator for food scraps that grinds the material down to smaller pieces. My concerns are how more nutrient dense is what comes out of this machine versus what went into it, how much energy does this use up in its process, and short of using this item for people who do not have the traditional space and time to compost naturally why and how effective would the output of this machine be in home use or small garden use for indoor house plants, as well as vegetable and fruit plants.
Thanks for the good honest review. Sounds like a product with a VERY limited market...those who have a lot of space and who don't already compost the simple way. Laughed st your end bits! The gift of a can of compost! And gifting the appliance itself! More like an opportunity to RE-gift!
how do we compost cooked food? like table scraps? also, love to see kids doing science experiments 🔬 comparing soil! I actually vitamiX blend my veggie food waste into water 💦 and pour it outside
I put mine in large zip lock bags and fill them and hand them out to neighbors, you can also stack the zip lock bags in a storage container in the garage.... thats what I do and it works great for when my wife does her gardening....
I don't understand the instruction not to include animal bones in soil, especially fish. Fishmeal is a common soil amendment. They're probably just worried about making the soil too sodic for people who season their food liberally. If that's such an issue for you, just mix it with a bit of gypsum and you're fine.
I am curious about why there are at least two other food cyclers advertised online that look nearly identical to the Vitamix. Are they all made by one manufacturer?
Thank you for this review. I have been interested in this product for a long time. You did a great job as always, identifying all the factors. It’s not for us right here right now, but I think it will be in the not to distant future. Thanks.
1. Does the compost when it is finished and completed, still contain the necessary nutrients to feed your plants being since the products that went into the compost bucket, have been dehydrated? 2. What is the core temperature of the dehydration process during a normal 2-5 Hr. composting cycle, with this machine?
A guy on RUclips did a test with dehydrated compost vs soil on its own and varying amounts of dehydrated compost in the soil. The soil alone made the plants grow quicker and graded off to the most dehydrated compost being the slowest. He basically proved this is a pointless product. If you’ve gotta wait for the dehydrated compost to become beneficial to plants then you may as well just save yourself a few $ and electricity and use an outside compost bin
.. the Educated Idiot would need to find an IKEA store, so he can go buy the most expensive Organically Biodegradable Gluten Free funnel... and waste $12 in gas driving around to find one.. so he'll cancel out all his Environment Points, in one drive.
You CAN compost animal bones. Animal protein is just carbon, and the bones is just calcium and magnesium lol I have no idea why the instructions mention sodium when bones are a great soil amendment for compost.
Animal bones and flesh! Animals are not products. Eating animals is animal abuse. Go vegan stop the abuse. The world needs more compassion. Watch Dominion on Netflix or listen to The Best speech you'll ever hear by Gary Yurosky.
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?
Eh, why are you putting edible food into a composter? It sounds like the machines you're actually looking for is a food processor and dehydrator/freeze dryer.
Thank you for this video. Was looking at this on their website. Can it grind avocado seeds? We have an avocado every day in our smoothies. Thankfully, we're a vegan and vegetarian household, so no animal products to compost. Love your channel.
Thanks! Us, too. 💚 You're not supposed to grind avocado pits, per the instructions. More on this here bit.ly/362iwS6 (just scroll down to the button that says "Wondering what you can put in the FoodCycler® FC-50?")
I've been wondering about this. Composting by blending your scraps and dumping them in the yard/garden was one of the sales points I was trained to use for the vitamix when I was a demonstrator. I'm struggling to see how this thing taking up even more counter space is a benefit over just giving the worms a trash smoothie.
@@AustynSNI used to give my worms a trash smoothie, but then I didn't like mold growing in my blender jar while I collected enough food scraps to make the trip to the worm bin with it. Also, my wooden worm bin outdoors would dry out constantly in the summer and kill all my worms. I had enough of the hassle. Now I just feed my dried and ground food scraps to my microbial pets in my aerobic digester and empty the digester when the fluffy mass goes over the max fill line. Pretty much instant soil-ready compost that I massage into my raised beds about once a week. Even the spent charcoal from the filters gets mixed in there because terra preta is pretty awesome stuff. It's like making little condos for bacteria 😂
blasting fossil fuel energy at food for no reason, and somehow seeing it's valuable ecologically to do this. The only way this thing is not a net negative is if you run it for 35 years on just solar.
HMMM What an interesting product. I'm not into composting For re purposing maybe cuz I'm a Republican but something like this makes me think. Thanks for showing It to us. Maybe I'll keep my Eyes open for one. PS that's a cute little kid you have but a word of advice . Just remember that some day he will be bigger And smarter than you And they never forget anything At this age 🤣🙏🇺🇸👌
I’m a republican I don’t believe in global warming but I’m all for reducing garbage (for efficiency reason) and a better environment. Plus you get free fertilizers for your garden!
@@constancekang9914 global warming does not care if you believe in it or not; global warming is real. Having 50 hurricanes on a weekend through multiple states when it’s not hurricane season, screams global warming 🙄
💰FYI: free second bucket (in-cart) through us bit.ly/FC50thruLINY (USA and Canada only)
We just bought one and can't wait to use it. Having a plant dominant diet, we produce a lot of vegetable scraps, and I had been grinding them in an old food processor outside, even in winter. This will make life so much easier.
Correction, you cannot use meat in your SOIL, but if it has bones and meat in it, COMPOST IT after cycling it so it can decompose. Add the meat products to your compost pile after cycling it. This is technically not composed food, it’s sterilized dried food matter which needs to be decomposed still. Most of the plant matter can be added directly to the soil after cycling it, just compost the dehydrated animal foods in your real composter. Soil amendment doesn’t necessarily mean compost. It’s more technically a dried food MULCH. But I definitely put ALL of it in the compost bin after cycling it anyways, except when I have a lot of banana peels, I store them separate for direct potassium amending, and it works.
I've been using my food grinder for three years and I still love it! I ordered an extra bucket so I keep an empty bucket and lid next to my cooking space, and keep the machine in my pantry. Over time, the enamel wore off inside of the buckets, but while the machine was still under warranty, they replaced the buckets at no cost, even free shipping! I've learned that I can't stuff it with starchy food, especially in combination with stringy produce like asparagus or green bean waste; It's possible to create some concrete-like goop that will jam up the bucket. I've done some soaking and prying out and so far, I've gotten the buckets cleaned out from even the most stubborn goop. And NOW we are required to separate food waste from our regular trash, so this is the magic solution! I don't usually write comments online, but I am so glad I bought one of these things!
i want to see garden growth results with the Vitamix compost / plants with and plants with out the compost in the same soil
There’s a good reason why compost takes a while. The inside of a compost pile generates an enormous amount of heat because of fermentation from natural decomposition and the excess gas produced by the tiny soil fauna that consumes the food products and it needs constant rotation with a garden fork to aerate it and make the surfaces more accessible to soil fauna. But more than that, what this machine made compost is missing is worm castings. You need to make sure that plain old regular garden worms can digest the plant material and added soil. That’s where the compost gold comes from, worm castings (essentially “worm shit”).
I also question how much energy you are using to make a small amount of “compost” and how nutrient dense it is after it’s run through the machine’s system. Any data on the energy usage and cost and the nutrient difference between the machine versus “Mother Nature?”
This guy gets it.
Steven L., people often swap use of fertilizer and compost, but even fertilizer is technically what it’s not per se without me knowing what nutrients remain in the food scraps after it’s processed to help “fertilize” the soil. But “composting” is also correct in that it is the biodegradation of organic material into the soil.
@@cybrarian9 I'm just a layperson, but from a google search, supposedly fertilizer feeds the plants and compost feeds the soil food web. I always thought of poop as fertilizer, and would never consider it compost.
In any event, this machine lessens food waste for people who would otherwise just throw it away. I'd guess people who already properly compost will keep on composting properly.
@ , my issue isn't that it's not a good thing, sure it is at least in spirt. What I'm curious to know is what is the relative energy expenditure of this machine to process a full tank of food scraps and what is the ultimate nutrient content of this "fertilizer" for what it produces and in the time and energy it takes to produce it. I'm all for saving the environment, making absolutely the best use of food scraps to compost or fertilize the plants and soil. I've done a fair amount of farming and gardening and shoveled just about every kind of animal manure one can on a farm. From an energy conservation standpoint, I'm just wondering how efficient and effective it is. But I'll research it and see. Maybe the cost is worth the machine in the long run as opposed to the energy required to get the food processed this way by Mother Nature.
@Allan Cortina, thanks. That would be appreciated. Please know that I'm not suggesting this is a "bad product." It's essentially a food dehydrator for food scraps that grinds the material down to smaller pieces. My concerns are how more nutrient dense is what comes out of this machine versus what went into it, how much energy does this use up in its process, and short of using this item for people who do not have the traditional space and time to compost naturally why and how effective would the output of this machine be in home use or small garden use for indoor house plants, as well as vegetable and fruit plants.
How much electricity ⚡️💸 does it consume?
Cool video. we have chickens, they eat all of our food waste and give us eggs in return, they don't require any electricity or replacement filters.
Thank you for the honest review. I think I’d like this. I’m a gardener and would like as easier compost option.
Excellent REAL WORLD review. Very thorough... thank you!
Thanks for watching!
This is so cool! Definitely my next Vitamix purchase to go along with my garden 🤗
Thanks for the good honest review. Sounds like a product with a VERY limited market...those who have a lot of space and who don't already compost the simple way. Laughed st your end bits! The gift of a can of compost! And gifting the appliance itself! More like an opportunity to RE-gift!
how do we compost cooked food? like table scraps? also, love to see kids doing science experiments 🔬 comparing soil! I actually vitamiX blend my veggie food waste into water 💦 and pour it outside
I put mine in large zip lock bags and fill them and hand them out to neighbors, you can also stack the zip lock bags in a storage container in the garage.... thats what I do and it works great for when my wife does her gardening....
I don't understand the instruction not to include animal bones in soil, especially fish. Fishmeal is a common soil amendment. They're probably just worried about making the soil too sodic for people who season their food liberally. If that's such an issue for you, just mix it with a bit of gypsum and you're fine.
Use that in a worm bin and boom worm tea and super fresh compost that's even better for the garden putting it in dry.
I am curious about why there are at least two other food cyclers advertised online that look nearly identical to the Vitamix. Are they all made by one manufacturer?
This was a great video!! Thanks for the review of this machine.
Thank you for this review. I have been interested in this product for a long time. You did a great job as always, identifying all the factors. It’s not for us right here right now, but I think it will be in the not to distant future. Thanks.
Think I’ll stick with my waste disposal unit. Thanks for the honest review.
1. Does the compost when it is finished and completed, still contain the necessary nutrients to feed your plants being since the products that went into the compost bucket, have been dehydrated?
2. What is the core temperature of the dehydration process during a normal 2-5 Hr. composting cycle, with this machine?
I'm thinking you could use the compost for your composting toilet...
A guy on RUclips did a test with dehydrated compost vs soil on its own and varying amounts of dehydrated compost in the soil. The soil alone made the plants grow quicker and graded off to the most dehydrated compost being the slowest. He basically proved this is a pointless product. If you’ve gotta wait for the dehydrated compost to become beneficial to plants then you may as well just save yourself a few $ and electricity and use an outside compost bin
I would like to see more of the product in action - like America's Test Kitchen videos.
Fantastic video both factual and informative for my lifestyle. Thank you so much I am subscribing :)
How much power does it need?
Funnel idea: cut the bottom off an empty milk mug.
Also, you did a great review - really down to earth on the pros and cons.
Has anyone done just the rinds of watermelon?
Where I live I have lots of leaves, greens and browns...has anyone add leaves to the compost?
I recommend trying a canning funnel to transfer the dehydrated food waste to your canister.
.. the Educated Idiot would need to find an IKEA store, so he can go buy the most expensive Organically Biodegradable Gluten Free funnel... and waste $12 in gas driving around to find one.. so he'll cancel out all his Environment Points, in one drive.
You guys are making great compost.. now you better start with your vegetable garden next spring!!😃
I know! Maybe life will settle down enough next spring for us to make it happen. :)
Lifeisnoyoke All will hopefully be well!!😃 All the Best!!
This machine is way better than a trash can or garbage disposer.
Would it be okay to run every night? We fill our compost container every day
I don't see why not. That's what we've been doing 💚
Funnel idea: howzabout one of those “dog cones” from the vet? Was the first thing that came to mind...!
You CAN compost animal bones. Animal protein is just carbon, and the bones is just calcium and magnesium lol I have no idea why the instructions mention sodium when bones are a great soil amendment for compost.
Animal bones and flesh! Animals are not products. Eating animals is animal abuse. Go vegan stop the abuse. The world needs more compassion. Watch Dominion on Netflix or listen to The Best speech you'll ever hear by Gary Yurosky.
Probably because people tend to cook meat in salt, which is typically not a great thing to add to soil without other amendments.
How often do u have to replace the filters?
good question! let me see if I can get an answer for how long we can expect the filters to last
Does this look like a quality product
Fantastic and informative review!
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?
Eh, why are you putting edible food into a composter? It sounds like the machines you're actually looking for is a food processor and dehydrator/freeze dryer.
Thank you for this video. Was looking at this on their website. Can it grind avocado seeds? We have an avocado every day in our smoothies. Thankfully, we're a vegan and vegetarian household, so no animal products to compost. Love your channel.
Thanks! Us, too. 💚 You're not supposed to grind avocado pits, per the instructions. More on this here bit.ly/362iwS6 (just scroll down to the button that says "Wondering what you can put in the FoodCycler® FC-50?")
I need to figure out a way how to use it in my hydroponic system... if anyone has any ideas please let me know
why do I get so nervous about leaving the first comment? um, Foocycler!
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I d just buy it so I don’t have to deal with stinky trash can
I do this with my blender already.
and then what? you dry it out?
@@Petrajac88 pour it in the compost
I've been wondering about this. Composting by blending your scraps and dumping them in the yard/garden was one of the sales points I was trained to use for the vitamix when I was a demonstrator. I'm struggling to see how this thing taking up even more counter space is a benefit over just giving the worms a trash smoothie.
@@AustynSNI used to give my worms a trash smoothie, but then I didn't like mold growing in my blender jar while I collected enough food scraps to make the trip to the worm bin with it. Also, my wooden worm bin outdoors would dry out constantly in the summer and kill all my worms. I had enough of the hassle. Now I just feed my dried and ground food scraps to my microbial pets in my aerobic digester and empty the digester when the fluffy mass goes over the max fill line. Pretty much instant soil-ready compost that I massage into my raised beds about once a week. Even the spent charcoal from the filters gets mixed in there because terra preta is pretty awesome stuff. It's like making little condos for bacteria 😂
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After you but the bones in then bokashi composting it
blasting fossil fuel energy at food for no reason, and somehow seeing it's valuable ecologically to do this. The only way this thing is not a net negative is if you run it for 35 years on just solar.
I, ll bay this it!!!
You can't screw it up! Me screwing it up on the first try👍
$323 price
HMMM What an interesting product. I'm not into composting For re purposing maybe cuz I'm a Republican but something like this makes me think. Thanks for showing It to us. Maybe I'll keep my Eyes open for one. PS that's a cute little kid you have but a word of advice . Just remember that some day he will be bigger And smarter than you And they never forget anything At this age 🤣🙏🇺🇸👌
How is compositing political?
@@makeaton90 Being environmentally friendly isn't smiled upon by some political groups because they don't believe in global warming. Cute, right?
I’m a republican I don’t believe in global warming but I’m all for reducing garbage (for efficiency reason) and a better environment. Plus you get free fertilizers for your garden!
@Amira love this comment!
@@constancekang9914 global warming does not care if you believe in it or not; global warming is real. Having 50 hurricanes on a weekend through multiple states when it’s not hurricane season, screams global warming 🙄
i like you.