Jump to the following parts of the Episode: 00:00 Episode Starts 00:52 How the Foodcycler Works 01:21 Food Waste Crisis in the World 01:47 Take responsibility for your waste 02:23 These are not composters 03:25 7 Food Waster I processed 03:59 Weight Savings On Pepper Food Scraps 04:50 Weight Savings on Jackfruit 05:13 Weight Savings on Tomatoes 05:44 WEight Savings on Orange Rinds 06:11 Weight Savings on Chicory Stalks 06:40 Weight Savings on Avocados 07:10 Weight Savings on Cantelope 07:59 How to duplicate the Foodcycler Results without buying one 08:23 How valuable is it to add dried food scraps to your garden? 08:50 Do this instead of buying a Foodcycler or Lomi and save your money 10:15 Find a local place that accepts food scraps 10:28 Trick: Freeze Food Scraps to make them easier to deal with 11:03 Buy the Foodcylcler or Lomi if it gets you to do something with your food scraps 11:30 Best two kitchen Composter Appliances 12:28 Bokashi Composting 12:42 Get a Worm Bin 12:50 I Use a compost Tumbler 13:13 My Joraform Compost Tumbler Composting FoodCycler Waste 15:25 Summary of Episode
The test you conduct while interesting isn’t that accurate and fair to the product. The instructions tell you to mix the food scraps. I have a small house, I can see myself making a coffee in the morning, small breakfast meal and lunch/dinner and have a decent mix of items to use this product. You also didn’t mention the filter and the fact that it stops the decomposing (smelly, mold process). Not everyone wants to attract pest, rodents flies and hornets.
Thank you for making this video. I actually do own a vitamix foodcycler. I bought it for about $200 bucks, used. I wouldn't ever buy it new. I knew going in that it wasn't making true compost. The reason I bought it is because I live in a place with no municipal composting available for food waste and I have no yard or space to have a timber or worm bin of substantial size. I have tried a tiny worm bin before but the worms take much longer to break down the food in a small space than the food waste I was producing. It was also hard to maintain their living conditions in a small bin. I have also tried bokashi and have had issues with the smell (I don't mind it but my roommates do). Also, bokashi doesn't make true compost either so I still would end up with a bucket of pickled scraps to deal with. I see a lot of comments saying that people are getting scammed by these things. I'm not exactly going to disagree, but I do want to make a point that it offers something that some can't get anywhere else. Me included. There isn't a smell, it's easy for me to compost and my roommates are now more encouraged to compost as well. (They weren't as motivated with my other attempts) The final product is also super compact which makes it easier to transport to my parent's place when I visit to dump into their yard. My parents also have dogs and aren't tempted to dig up the dried scraps unlike the wet option. I love to compost traditionally and I would love to do it when/if I have a home and yard of my own. Sometimes you have to consider what each person's needs are if they want to compost. I'm lucky to have the funds to get something like this, but others aren't so lucky and they have to toss their food in the trash. I see comments about just throwing in the yard, but that just isn't a good answer for people who don't have yards or space. Like I mentioned earlier, I know that the foodcycler isn't making true compost, but it solved a lot of issues and inconveniences for me that I couldn't solve with traditional composting. We should be more aware of the fact that many of us are in different situations and what may be dumb and a waste of time and money for some may be a huge game changer for others.
The main issue is what you pointed out that Lomi doesn't produce compost. So what are you supposed to do with the dried scraps if you live in an apartment and don't have a place to put the dried waste? It really has no other use except to take it somewhere to be actually composted. You definitely should not use it with indoor plants in the soil or even as a topdressing. The "compost" will cause smells, mold outbreaks, and may actually lead to the death of your plants. The nutrients are not available for plants in this "compost" until it's actually composted. It's unfortunate there are such underdeveloped urban places that don't have communal biowaste collection and processing, but Lomi is hardly the answer.
Yeah I totally get what you mean. I mentioned in my last comment that I take the dried waste to my parents place to be buried, and their dogs won't dig it up like when I was using bokashi. I don't see them very often so just constantly taking my fresh food doesn't exactly work for me. I never said that I put the dried food in with my potted plants. That's just the same as putting any food scraps in there. I just wish that Lomi accurately advertised the product. It's not a bad thing to say that your product breaks down food and makes it easier to store and is a good option for apartment dwellers. They are of course a business, so they're much more motivated to make money really. I don't own a Lomi, and I didn't want to get into the fad. I completely agree with you on needing better waste management! I also wish there was something better for people to reduce food waste! There used to be a private compost company where I lived, but they're long gone now.
Thanks for your video about the Vitamix composter. So far, I like mine. It works well and cleans up easy. I’m storing the dried product until spring when I can dig it into my soil prior to planting. I had to give up outdoor composting due to raccoons and other pests, although if I had one like yours, it wouldn’t have been a problem. Anyway, yes it was expensive and yes it uses electricity and yes it takes up valuable counter space and yes it basically just dehydrates but I’m using it almost daily and am looking forward to spring to see if it makes a difference in the soil. Thanks again for your wonderful videos.
I have an outdoor worm bed. The food scraps get buried then all the yard waste gets layered on top. It's 3ft by 6ft. It doesn't smell and all the layers on top keeps raccoons etc from raiding it. I know not everyone has the space or inclination to do that but it's a solution.
Used to know a lady who would use her blender and some water to grind up her veggie food scraps and then dump it directly in her garden. Her garden was a bit of a stinking mess, but her produce was huge and very tasty! She also put vitamin supplements in there.
I know a guy that does something similar. He set up an old cast iron sink outside the house next to the water faucet where he washes garden produce. He put an old garbage disposal on the sink and all of the trimmings and kitchen scraps are run through the garbage disposal into a 5-gallon bucket. He then empties the bucket into the compost bin or into a garden if there is open soil.
I do this, with the blender. But then I dump it in my compost and pile older compost on top of it so it doesn't stink. It breaks down completely and adds to/becomes compost. THEN it goes in the garden. Adding that step takes care of the "stinking mess" part.
Thanks for the video John was curious what it was all about. Still using the compost Tumblr I got a year ago from one of your other videos love it. Makes great compost tea. I took my backhoe and Dug two hundred foot trenches. Then I used my post hole digger and dug holes down each side of the trench. Been packing them with garden material and wood chips. Should be interesting this growing season. Hope to start a food forest in a super dry climate. Best wishes
I agree they aren't composting, they are just chopping and drying the food. And yes, is it worth the cost of the unit, cost of electricity to run it and cost of the water to clean it and the cost for the filters. Not to mention the space needed to operate and store it.
Thanks for sharing John! I love that you use a compost tumbler! How many do you have and how long does it take to break down and useable? It seems a lot faster than just putting in outside in a pile.
I once owned a house with 8.5 acres to put compost bins in, far away from the house so smells and flies don't come in. However I now live in a house with a small garden. I have a wormery but they are slow and if you put to much in you get the same problem of flies and smells that you do with big composters. My excess goes through my Lomi and then on the garden. Far better than putting it on to landfill.
I have a composter. Just a small Spinney one from Aldi. I am very diligent about getting waste out there. I hate it either everything is wet or dry. It sucks! Unless you’re on a big piece of property and you’re making big piles of compost I would not even go that route. On my property which is small I’m just going to do worm composting and Bokashi composting. Maybe something to do with mushrooms? But that’s what I’m doing.
I’d have grizzlies in my yard composting meat and such . I use the food cycler almost every day now and it’s cut our waste in half . This gets mixed into the dirt and then that dirt is used to grow the following year
Great review! Technology is rarely a substitute for the Organic Solution. I too eat a plant-based diet, and composting is a must! Reduce, Reuse Recycle ❤️
Hi. Years ago, I bought the tumbler per your advice...then we moved into an apartment and got COCO "Compost Colorado" pick up service $30 a month and love them. But now we're moving on to an RV and THERE IS NO WAY I'd feel good about myself throwing wet food away in the trash or just on the ground in random places. So, I find these counter composters, however dry, to be something I can sleep good at night knowing I'm doing.
worms will eat it, making better soil, or it will compost down into the soil, also helping. Alot will dig the row and bury them, then plant down the row next spring 🙌
A lot of hospitals use food waste extractors, all they do it press the food stuff to get the water out. It reduces volume and weight, making it cheaper for them to have it trucked out. I've also seen a few biodigesters that breaks the food down into a slurry before it dumps it into the local waste water system. Don't think they scale very well though and probably why they aren't widely adopted. Why you would waste electricity to dehydrate food waste before it goes into the landfill? We have green bins for food waste here, the city will take for composting and sell the end product for revenue. No need to dehydrate it at all, they'd probably have to re-add the moisture. These "composters" are bull crap, people who are composting have no need for it and people who live in condos can't compost. They claimed a lot of their customers are in areas with cold winters where composting won't happen. Maybe this would be useful? Dehydrate and store for spring? The electrical cost for this would make this suck and why not just by a dehydrator that's about 1/10 the price? Or like you said, let it freeze outside in a container? Thank you for not selling out and giving facts :)
Out problem with composting is we live in Alaska. The ground is frozen for six months, sometimes seven. Having food scraps build up that long because they just freeze can attract bears in the springtime. I'd love to make my own compost, but using something like the dehydrating Mill bin could be helpful in these cold cold climates. We also live where it rains a lot (when it's not snowing). Thanks for the info.
I’m moving into a camper van for 2 years to travel and need some way of dealing with scraps. Weight and size are huge considerations when living in a postage stamp, and not having wet garbage getting stinky and breeding bugs isn’t an option. If I have to make extra trips to dump garbage that I don’t have space for in my van, I’m not doing the environment any favors either. Bacteria breaking down wet food scraps produces methane, which is also not great. If I had a garden and a tumbler then I wouldn’t bother with a machine like this, but these devices still have their uses.
i have been juicing and eating a lot of veggies/fruits== lots of waste especially watermelon- all of this is a pain to dispose of-- i have used my dehydrator for the juice pulp and grind that in my Blend Tec-- that does reduce the volume-- maybe i will try that for the watermelon rinds & also for the veggie trimmings
Have you actually used this on your plants? I saw everything other than results from actually using the scraps. If you throw it out like you say, once it gets wet it molds quickly so the only real way to use them is by burying. I pre mix this with my soil and leave it for a weak while wet before use.
Yes, I too would like to hear John's take on the Reencle. I happen to own one for several months now and am very happy with the combination of the FoodCycler and the Reencle. I even learned recently how to to process beef, lamb, and pork bones into bone meal prior to adding it to the Reencle for additional phosphorus. Don't even have to clean off any of the gristle like some RUclips tutorials ask you do. The Reencle handles a little bit of fats just fine. I usually add a bit of coffee grounds to compensate.
hey John Ive watched your show for years. Love it. I havent watched this video just yet but a word of warning. May want to watch a video made by thunderfoot (just search thunderfoot lomi) before purchasing this product. I have a feeling Johns gunna find that he doesnt need this machine. Anyways best wishes to all. Grow them greens!
We collect kitchen scraps in a bucket under the sink. And we often forget about it and create a biological nightmare with smells and fruit flies and mold and slime. We have a huge three compartment composter in the back, but I never turn it. It's a bottomless compost, put so much yard scraps on that and it's just keeps sinking. Lol. Anyways, very torna about this product because it's really cool, but I don't know if need it, and the price seems steep. Not as bad as Lomi, but...
The lomi does have microb tablets that you put in with more than just one type of food scrap making it very close to true compost. This guy just skipped out on the important information about the device and he’s not using it properly.
Just bury your old veggies in your garden it’s feeds the soil and waters the soil and you get benefits from it. Simple you don’t need a composter or waste money on electric expensive crap. If you got that much waste rethink what your doing and get right. Just remember no meat waste it stinks and animals will get to it like your pets.
In the world where, in the United States last winter, children froze to death in their beds because of no electricity, the thought of using electricity to create compost is baffling to me.
The world has an energy crisis too - food is still being wasted here but people are wasting loads of electricity to make the food they waste small and dry. This is absurd, just stop wasting food then this stupid product doesn't need to exist. Compost it, or give your food waste to someone who does.
Ive been pooping secretly in my neighbors yard for weeks now! They get mad at the mess but they'll be happy when those clumps of grass start growing super healthy!
@@tlynbonevitch Just a bit of relevant background, but household waste in Korea must be sorted before being disposed in their specific bags. General waste and food waste are the most common. These bags are later picked up on specific days. So, in a country where most people live in apartments, food waste lingering gets smelly unless you freeze or process it in one of these machines. The dehydrated stuff is later put in general waste. I think some ppl tried putting the “compost” from the one using microbes in their apartment plants but they got smelly and buggy. It’s a comfort for apartment living here. Idk about that breadmaking tho
No, food cannot decompose correctly. The process requires sunlight and oxygen to breakdown,but landfills are densely packed and trap waste therefore lacking oxygen making it very hard to break down.
@@gracepromsuree7336 landfills are not airtight vacuums... Food and organic waste absolutely decays and eventually breaks down and composts in landfills.
@@gracepromsuree7336 Composting does not require sunlight. Oxygen is the key element here to keep composting aerobic. Food waste does decompose in landfills but the process easily turns to smelly unaerobic rotting which causes more greenhouse gases than composting.
AND landfills are like gigantic diapers; even if the food breaks down correctly, it doesn’t benefit anything or anyone. It’s not REPLENISHING anything.
I think you made a mistake. Tomatoes are 95% water. It looks like you started with about 6.5 pounds of tomatoes so that would be 6.65 pounds of water and 0.32 pounds of everything else. Now I know you didn't get rid of every last bit of water, but those tomato chips look pretty dry, so I think you came close. Plus, there is no way there is 3.5 pounds of dehydrated tomato in that tray. I think your scale measures pounds when you put a lot of weight on it and ounces when there is a little weight. 0.35 pounds is 5.2 ounces. Not all that far off from your 3.5 ounce number (maybe your tomatoes were watery).
Hands down best composters are chickens and piles. I've tried pretty much every compost method and chickens really are the best. Even if you're vegan, just don't eat the eggs. Crack them and throw them in the compost and the chickens will eat them.
I live where it's below zero for 6 months of the year and haven't found a way to compost during that time. If I put the food scraps outside they freeze solid and by the time they thaw, they're smelly and attract grizzlies. So I think there's definitely a need for other composting methods - if this works so I can store the food waste until spring and then add to soil, it'll save a lot of garbage
@laurastable I just throw all my food scraps into a metal garbage can in the garage during winter and start composting it when spring arrives it stays frozen in my garage But do whatever works best 4 ya
Jump to the following parts of the Episode:
00:00 Episode Starts
00:52 How the Foodcycler Works
01:21 Food Waste Crisis in the World
01:47 Take responsibility for your waste
02:23 These are not composters
03:25 7 Food Waster I processed
03:59 Weight Savings On Pepper Food Scraps
04:50 Weight Savings on Jackfruit
05:13 Weight Savings on Tomatoes
05:44 WEight Savings on Orange Rinds
06:11 Weight Savings on Chicory Stalks
06:40 Weight Savings on Avocados
07:10 Weight Savings on Cantelope
07:59 How to duplicate the Foodcycler Results without buying one
08:23 How valuable is it to add dried food scraps to your garden?
08:50 Do this instead of buying a Foodcycler or Lomi and save your money
10:15 Find a local place that accepts food scraps
10:28 Trick: Freeze Food Scraps to make them easier to deal with
11:03 Buy the Foodcylcler or Lomi if it gets you to do something with your food scraps
11:30 Best two kitchen Composter Appliances
12:28 Bokashi Composting
12:42 Get a Worm Bin
12:50 I Use a compost Tumbler
13:13 My Joraform Compost Tumbler Composting FoodCycler Waste
15:25 Summary of Episode
Ho John, do you still use mels mix for raised garden beds and do you prefer pete moss or coco please?
Hello John, would you be able to test the electric composter from Airthereal as well?
The test you conduct while interesting isn’t that accurate and fair to the product. The instructions tell you to mix the food scraps.
I have a small house, I can see myself making a coffee in the morning, small breakfast meal and lunch/dinner and have a decent mix of items to use this product.
You also didn’t mention the filter and the fact that it stops the decomposing (smelly, mold process). Not everyone wants to attract pest, rodents flies and hornets.
Thank you for making this video. I actually do own a vitamix foodcycler. I bought it for about $200 bucks, used. I wouldn't ever buy it new. I knew going in that it wasn't making true compost. The reason I bought it is because I live in a place with no municipal composting available for food waste and I have no yard or space to have a timber or worm bin of substantial size.
I have tried a tiny worm bin before but the worms take much longer to break down the food in a small space than the food waste I was producing. It was also hard to maintain their living conditions in a small bin. I have also tried bokashi and have had issues with the smell (I don't mind it but my roommates do). Also, bokashi doesn't make true compost either so I still would end up with a bucket of pickled scraps to deal with.
I see a lot of comments saying that people are getting scammed by these things. I'm not exactly going to disagree, but I do want to make a point that it offers something that some can't get anywhere else. Me included.
There isn't a smell, it's easy for me to compost and my roommates are now more encouraged to compost as well. (They weren't as motivated with my other attempts) The final product is also super compact which makes it easier to transport to my parent's place when I visit to dump into their yard. My parents also have dogs and aren't tempted to dig up the dried scraps unlike the wet option.
I love to compost traditionally and I would love to do it when/if I have a home and yard of my own. Sometimes you have to consider what each person's needs are if they want to compost. I'm lucky to have the funds to get something like this, but others aren't so lucky and they have to toss their food in the trash. I see comments about just throwing in the yard, but that just isn't a good answer for people who don't have yards or space.
Like I mentioned earlier, I know that the foodcycler isn't making true compost, but it solved a lot of issues and inconveniences for me that I couldn't solve with traditional composting. We should be more aware of the fact that many of us are in different situations and what may be dumb and a waste of time and money for some may be a huge game changer for others.
The main issue is what you pointed out that Lomi doesn't produce compost. So what are you supposed to do with the dried scraps if you live in an apartment and don't have a place to put the dried waste? It really has no other use except to take it somewhere to be actually composted. You definitely should not use it with indoor plants in the soil or even as a topdressing. The "compost" will cause smells, mold outbreaks, and may actually lead to the death of your plants. The nutrients are not available for plants in this "compost" until it's actually composted. It's unfortunate there are such underdeveloped urban places that don't have communal biowaste collection and processing, but Lomi is hardly the answer.
Yeah I totally get what you mean. I mentioned in my last comment that I take the dried waste to my parents place to be buried, and their dogs won't dig it up like when I was using bokashi. I don't see them very often so just constantly taking my fresh food doesn't exactly work for me. I never said that I put the dried food in with my potted plants. That's just the same as putting any food scraps in there.
I just wish that Lomi accurately advertised the product. It's not a bad thing to say that your product breaks down food and makes it easier to store and is a good option for apartment dwellers. They are of course a business, so they're much more motivated to make money really. I don't own a Lomi, and I didn't want to get into the fad.
I completely agree with you on needing better waste management! I also wish there was something better for people to reduce food waste! There used to be a private compost company where I lived, but they're long gone now.
Thanks for your video about the Vitamix composter. So far, I like mine. It works well and cleans up easy. I’m storing the dried product until spring when I can dig it into my soil prior to planting. I had to give up outdoor composting due to raccoons and other pests, although if I had one like yours, it wouldn’t have been a problem. Anyway, yes it was expensive and yes it uses electricity and yes it takes up valuable counter space and yes it basically just dehydrates but I’m using it almost daily and am looking forward to spring to see if it makes a difference in the soil. Thanks again for your wonderful videos.
I have an outdoor worm bed. The food scraps get buried then all the yard waste gets layered on top. It's 3ft by 6ft. It doesn't smell and all the layers on top keeps raccoons etc from raiding it. I know not everyone has the space or inclination to do that but it's a solution.
Thank you for this review 🙏 Very helpful!
It grinds and dehydrates. It’s basically a countertop automatic vegetable bouillon maker
I'll save $500, and keep using my compost tumblers. The compost tumblers make compost instead of dehydrated food scraps.
use it to make worm food for my bins without attracting fruit flys. it aslo helps in storing worm chow when it is needed.
Thanks for making this a quick video.
I was waiting for you to review this b4 I get it. Ty John u da best bro ever 🙏🏻
Im so glad I watched this video! You save me $500. Thank you. I like the idea of burying the scraps.
Thank you for practical advice.
Used to know a lady who would use her blender and some water to grind up her veggie food scraps and then dump it directly in her garden. Her garden was a bit of a stinking mess, but her produce was huge and very tasty! She also put vitamin supplements in there.
I know a guy that does something similar. He set up an old cast iron sink outside the house next to the water faucet where he washes garden produce. He put an old garbage disposal on the sink and all of the trimmings and kitchen scraps are run through the garbage disposal into a 5-gallon bucket. He then empties the bucket into the compost bin or into a garden if there is open soil.
I do this, with the blender. But then I dump it in my compost and pile older compost on top of it so it doesn't stink. It breaks down completely and adds to/becomes compost. THEN it goes in the garden. Adding that step takes care of the "stinking mess" part.
Thanks for the video John was curious what it was all about. Still using the compost Tumblr I got a year ago from one of your other videos love it. Makes great compost tea. I took my backhoe and Dug two hundred foot trenches. Then I used my post hole digger and dug holes down each side of the trench. Been packing them with garden material and wood chips. Should be interesting this growing season. Hope to start a food forest in a super dry climate. Best wishes
I agree they aren't composting, they are just chopping and drying the food. And yes, is it worth the cost of the unit, cost of electricity to run it and cost of the water to clean it and the cost for the filters. Not to mention the space needed to operate and store it.
Thanks for sharing John! I love that you use a compost tumbler! How many do you have and how long does it take to break down and useable? It seems a lot faster than just putting in outside in a pile.
I once owned a house with 8.5 acres to put compost bins in, far away from the house so smells and flies don't come in. However I now live in a house with a small garden. I have a wormery but they are slow and if you put to much in you get the same problem of flies and smells that you do with big composters. My excess goes through my Lomi and then on the garden. Far better than putting it on to landfill.
I have a composter. Just a small Spinney one from Aldi. I am very diligent about getting waste out there. I hate it either everything is wet or dry. It sucks! Unless you’re on a big piece of property and you’re making big piles of compost I would not even go that route. On my property which is small I’m just going to do worm composting and Bokashi composting. Maybe something to do with mushrooms? But that’s what I’m doing.
I’d have grizzlies in my yard composting meat and such . I use the food cycler almost every day now and it’s cut our waste in half . This gets mixed into the dirt and then that dirt is used to grow the following year
Would you review the new Mill Kitchen Bin one that supposedly can make food for chickens? Or even add to compost.
Great review! Technology is rarely a substitute for the Organic Solution. I too eat a plant-based diet, and composting is a must! Reduce, Reuse Recycle ❤️
I have composting tumblers and I purchased the Vitamix Food Cycler to help with my composting. It is totally worth every penny
What is the machine made of?
Hi. Years ago, I bought the tumbler per your advice...then we moved into an apartment and got COCO "Compost Colorado" pick up service $30 a month and love them. But now we're moving on to an RV and THERE IS NO WAY I'd feel good about myself throwing wet food away in the trash or just on the ground in random places. So, I find these counter composters, however dry, to be something I can sleep good at night knowing I'm doing.
I throw my food compost into the back of the garden where nothing's planted. Spring and fall we turn it over into the rest of the plot. Bad idea?
worms will eat it, making better soil, or it will compost down into the soil, also helping. Alot will dig the row and bury them, then plant down the row next spring 🙌
Good info
What are attractive food compost bins for a neighborhood?
Uum why wouldn’t you just compost normally? Seems like a complete waste of money
Because it’s dehydrated organic material it’s basically a carbon source/brown material… when added to a compost heap it rehydrates and heats up
everything organic is carbon based dude, even paper.
A lot of hospitals use food waste extractors, all they do it press the food stuff to get the water out. It reduces volume and weight, making it cheaper for them to have it trucked out. I've also seen a few biodigesters that breaks the food down into a slurry before it dumps it into the local waste water system. Don't think they scale very well though and probably why they aren't widely adopted.
Why you would waste electricity to dehydrate food waste before it goes into the landfill? We have green bins for food waste here, the city will take for composting and sell the end product for revenue. No need to dehydrate it at all, they'd probably have to re-add the moisture.
These "composters" are bull crap, people who are composting have no need for it and people who live in condos can't compost. They claimed a lot of their customers are in areas with cold winters where composting won't happen. Maybe this would be useful? Dehydrate and store for spring? The electrical cost for this would make this suck and why not just by a dehydrator that's about 1/10 the price? Or like you said, let it freeze outside in a container?
Thank you for not selling out and giving facts :)
I've never even heard of this, this is awesome!
I'm trying it with scraps but I'm over run with pill bugs .
Out problem with composting is we live in Alaska. The ground is frozen for six months, sometimes seven. Having food scraps build up that long because they just freeze can attract bears in the springtime. I'd love to make my own compost, but using something like the dehydrating Mill bin could be helpful in these cold cold climates. We also live where it rains a lot (when it's not snowing). Thanks for the info.
How about dehydration of food scraps using wood-heat?
I’m moving into a camper van for 2 years to travel and need some way of dealing with scraps. Weight and size are huge considerations when living in a postage stamp, and not having wet garbage getting stinky and breeding bugs isn’t an option. If I have to make extra trips to dump garbage that I don’t have space for in my van, I’m not doing the environment any favors either.
Bacteria breaking down wet food scraps produces methane, which is also not great.
If I had a garden and a tumbler then I wouldn’t bother with a machine like this, but these devices still have their uses.
I’m getting the Vitamix Eco-5 one! $499
Problem with burying food scraps is that critters will unbury it and make a mess.
i have been juicing and eating a lot of veggies/fruits== lots of waste especially watermelon- all of this is a pain to dispose of-- i have used my dehydrator for the juice pulp and grind that in my Blend Tec-- that does reduce the volume-- maybe i will try that for the watermelon rinds & also for the veggie trimmings
Methane is collected in the landfills. Seems like food scraps for chickens
John is the best
You know when you make Bokashi they make you believe that rice bran is the only thing you can use. You can use things like sawdust
I am looking at a vitamin for worms hoping it helps them get through it
After fileting a fish would this get rid of the unwanted scraps
Have you actually used this on your plants? I saw everything other than results from actually using the scraps.
If you throw it out like you say, once it gets wet it molds quickly so the only real way to use them is by burying. I pre mix this with my soil and leave it for a weak while wet before use.
Can you make a review of Reencle composter in future? :)
Yes, I too would like to hear John's take on the Reencle. I happen to own one for several months now and am very happy with the combination of the FoodCycler and the Reencle. I even learned recently how to to process beef, lamb, and pork bones into bone meal prior to adding it to the Reencle for additional phosphorus. Don't even have to clean off any of the gristle like some RUclips tutorials ask you do. The Reencle handles a little bit of fats just fine. I usually add a bit of coffee grounds to compensate.
hey John Ive watched your show for years. Love it.
I havent watched this video just yet but a word of warning. May want to watch a video made by thunderfoot (just search thunderfoot lomi) before purchasing this product.
I have a feeling Johns gunna find that he doesnt need this machine.
Anyways best wishes to all. Grow them greens!
We collect kitchen scraps in a bucket under the sink. And we often forget about it and create a biological nightmare with smells and fruit flies and mold and slime. We have a huge three compartment composter in the back, but I never turn it. It's a bottomless compost, put so much yard scraps on that and it's just keeps sinking. Lol. Anyways, very torna about this product because it's really cool, but I don't know if need it, and the price seems steep. Not as bad as Lomi, but...
Nice. Sounds like a blender.
The lomi does have microb tablets that you put in with more than just one type of food scrap making it very close to true compost. This guy just skipped out on the important information about the device and he’s not using it properly.
Watch VoiceOfThunder for a touch of reality on these scams.
Just bury your old veggies in your garden it’s feeds the soil and waters the soil and you get benefits from it. Simple you don’t need a composter or waste money on electric expensive crap. If you got that much waste rethink what your doing and get right. Just remember no meat waste it stinks and animals will get to it like your pets.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines lol
In the world where, in the United States last winter, children froze to death in their beds because of no electricity, the thought of using electricity to create compost is baffling to me.
What does this product have ANYTHING to do with a child freezing to death??? Are you simple or just slow?
Stay strong 💪 grow strong 💪compost hard 💪
The world has an energy crisis too - food is still being wasted here but people are wasting loads of electricity to make the food they waste small and dry. This is absurd, just stop wasting food then this stupid product doesn't need to exist. Compost it, or give your food waste to someone who does.
I've been burying my food scraps!
Why not? It doesn't take much!
Ive been pooping secretly in my neighbors yard for weeks now! They get mad at the mess but they'll be happy when those clumps of grass start growing super healthy!
These are kind of popular in Korea but they’re definitely not used for composting.
What are they used for in Korea?
@@tlynbonevitch watch Thunderf00t's latest video. It's a breadmaker scam.
@@tlynbonevitch Just a bit of relevant background, but household waste in Korea must be sorted before being disposed in their specific bags. General waste and food waste are the most common. These bags are later picked up on specific days.
So, in a country where most people live in apartments, food waste lingering gets smelly unless you freeze or process it in one of these machines. The dehydrated stuff is later put in general waste. I think some ppl tried putting the “compost” from the one using microbes in their apartment plants but they got smelly and buggy.
It’s a comfort for apartment living here. Idk about that breadmaking tho
In farness you should use a lomi to be abile to claim what it can and can't do.
Make sure you bury food scraps deep enough to keep the rats away
My composer turns all my kitchen scraps into eggs and meat.
I just got turned on to them. I want to get one but I just don't have the money for it.
Lomi: one thing is absolutely for certain, this device is TERRIBLE for the environment.
That's my concern too. All that energy to dehydrate and grind scraps.
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Compost ah yes!
Give your compostable goods to a neighbor 😀🙏🇦🇺
Doesn't food waste compost in the landfill?
Yes lol, people are dumb
No, food cannot decompose correctly. The process requires sunlight and oxygen to breakdown,but landfills are densely packed and trap waste therefore lacking oxygen making it very hard to break down.
@@gracepromsuree7336 landfills are not airtight vacuums... Food and organic waste absolutely decays and eventually breaks down and composts in landfills.
@@gracepromsuree7336 Composting does not require sunlight. Oxygen is the key element here to keep composting aerobic. Food waste does decompose in landfills but the process easily turns to smelly unaerobic rotting which causes more greenhouse gases than composting.
AND landfills are like gigantic diapers; even if the food breaks down correctly, it doesn’t benefit anything or anyone. It’s not REPLENISHING anything.
That lomi compared to the Vitamix eco5 is no good!
All gimmicks.. dry your food in the backyard on a couple sunny days then grind it .. and still it is not broken down like a composted products
I think you made a mistake. Tomatoes are 95% water. It looks like you started with about 6.5 pounds of tomatoes so that would be 6.65 pounds of water and 0.32 pounds of everything else. Now I know you didn't get rid of every last bit of water, but those tomato chips look pretty dry, so I think you came close. Plus, there is no way there is 3.5 pounds of dehydrated tomato in that tray. I think your scale measures pounds when you put a lot of weight on it and ounces when there is a little weight. 0.35 pounds is 5.2 ounces. Not all that far off from your 3.5 ounce number (maybe your tomatoes were watery).
Hands down best composters are chickens and piles. I've tried pretty much every compost method and chickens really are the best. Even if you're vegan, just don't eat the eggs. Crack them and throw them in the compost and the chickens will eat them.
Dear God what is this
500$ food processor and dehydrator 🤣 People get scammed into buying anything 🤣
Eyes looking a little red. Hee hee!
Total SCAM...
Nobody should buy these gadgets. Composting is very easy already and doesn’t cost much but some trash bins.
My thoughts
I started to list reasons why people would want to buy one of these instead of regular composting but there are literally too many to list
Yup this is extremely wasteful on energy also just to make sum people feel like they helping when this process is very wasteful
I live where it's below zero for 6 months of the year and haven't found a way to compost during that time. If I put the food scraps outside they freeze solid and by the time they thaw, they're smelly and attract grizzlies. So I think there's definitely a need for other composting methods - if this works so I can store the food waste until spring and then add to soil, it'll save a lot of garbage
@laurastable I just throw all my food scraps into a metal garbage can in the garage during winter and start composting it when spring arrives it stays frozen in my garage
But do whatever works best 4 ya
In my opinion these things are massive scams. Just throw your scraps in a pile outside and you’re good to go.