Mill Smart Home Food Recycler FULL Review

[@lazyguy9486]

Just set our Mill up today, but had a few questions. This video is OUTSTANDING!! Answered all our questions, and I agree with everything Rachel says. Food waste should be a felony. The only remaining question is how long will it last. The longer it lasts, the less it ends up costing and the more energy savings you'll realize. I'm hoping it lasts longer than I will. Thanks Rachel!!

[@ruthanneanderson1339]

What a fantastic video! My husband purchased one of these for me for Christmas but I found the box yesterday 😊 so looking forward to advice I found your video and am so happy I did! The government should give us at least a tax deduction for this purchase! Thanks for all your help and an extra shoutout to you doing videos with little kids around 😊 (Don’t listen to the Trolls!)

[@brianhunley5302]

We have chickens and it cost a lot to feed them so I’m excited to see how much they like it!

[@niceum]

Great review. Minnesota gave residents up to $1,500 to but an ebike depending on income and cost. States could do that with something like this. I live in the woods though so I just have a compost outside. Or I just throw the lettuce off the patio 🤣

[@campbellmstuart]

Thanks for this! Super helpful review.

[@temascanudos]

Excellent review. Cant you feed your chickens directly on food scraps and avoid using this kind of machines?

[@tculhane]

Hi, we just watched your great video at the Patel College of Global Sustainability at USF Tampa in my Navigating the Food Energy Water Nexus graduate class and based on it we are going to lobby the department to get one for our events. So bravo for a great explanation and informative video! My question is: I have the Vitamix desktop version and it uses over 1 to 3 kwH over the 3 hours of grinding and heating and I use a watt meter so when it says it is pulling 700 watts instaneous it turns out I have to multiply that by the number of hours it takes to finish. How are you ending up with only 750 watt-hrs when you do it overnight? Second question: Our chickens ignore the dried food waste powder it produces and it takes forever to turn into soil unless we rehydrate it. This makes me go back to the insinkerator grinder in a utilitity sink because it only uses 360 watt-hrs (actually for only 5 minutes making it a mere 60 watt-hrs at the end) and is coming out wet and ready to turn into soil or go into our Homebiogas system. Have you actually seen your chickens eat what the Mill produces as it comes out, or do you reconstitute it or process it in some way before giving it to them? Thanks so much!

[@tenneyplants]

I'm honored to have had this video viewed by your graduate class and hope the lobbying efforts go well! To answer your questions, I got the information for the kilowatt hours from Mills website and research they've performed. They state that each unit uses an estimated 0.7 kWh per day. It may have been an interesting experiment to have used a watt meter of my own though to test that data. And I put my dried grounds and mix it directly with my chicken feed I get from IFA. Once it's mixed in there, they actually eat it really well. I don't think they'd do so well if I gave the dried grounds unmixed with anything else. Hope this helps!

[@michaelburke4048]

Since you can't add bones and fats, are you still maintaining a second bin for those sort of scraps, or are you just adding them to your trash? Just curious since it claims to eliminate food odors, but if I still need the one I've got...

[@fk319fk]

As a new viewer, you probably have covered this, but I will ask. What things can you not put in the mill? I am guessing meat, bones, and grease. What things can you do with the scraps? I am guessing putting a handful under a transplanted plant in the spring would be good.

[@tenneyplants]

Great questions! Like you mentioned, you can't put in meat, bones, and grease in the mill. Any other items that aren't food waste are not allowed as well as other durable food items like corn husks, artichoke stalks and leaves, coconuts, syrups, etc. Their app is really useful on figuring out what should be added and not. And the food grounds it creates can be used in so many ways! I mix mine into my garden soil, sprinkle it on my lawn, and I also mix it with my chicken feed. I hope that helps!

[@fk319fk]

@@tenneyplants My wife and I were talking about our food waste, and coffee grounds came up. I think coffee grounds are okay, but I was wondering about coffee filters.

[@tenneyplants]

@fk319fk I just looked at my app and coffee filters are actually just fine in the Mill too! So both the ground and filters can be recycled

[@AnnaCabot-lm3mc]

Thank you! I love the answers to all of the questions I’ve had tumbling in my head the last few months. I’m looking forward to benefiting from Black Friday discount, in addition to the many benefits of using the mill.

[@jackiiecano27]

Tried using the link and is pulling up at full price. Is there a coupon code available? Thanks!

[@tenneyplants]

Thanks for letting me know! It should pull up with the $125 off so I'm looking into it right now. I'll comment once it's all fixed!

[@tenneyplants]

I just spoke with someone at Mill and they let me know that the discount code should apply once you’ve entered in your email! I hope that helps!

[@sheilamason1895]

hmmm… I have a question. I live on 3 acres of mostly forestry. I also have a lomi which jams often. It composts to soil and I dump into my garden. Will this dehydrated food draw animals and insects as a food source. Bears are prevalent here and they are destructive. I don’t want to tempt them.

[@tenneyplants]

The food grounds it creates is exactly what the lomi is creating, so if you haven’t had problems with putting lomi grounds in the garden so far, you should be good! 👍 I make sure to spread my grounds thoroughly and I haven’t had problems attracting pests or animals so far. I have a lomi and the mill has definitely blown me away with how it doesn’t jam up like my lomi would. I hope this helps!

[@bryanturnbow8189]

1:31 Are you using a phone case to scan a QR code? 😂

[@tenneyplants]

😂😂 yep, you caught me!

[@HerbieBancock]

10 cents or less per day my ass. Try a constant 4 amp draw for 18+ hours. You should actually measure things instead of just regurgitating marketing drivel.

[@rebeccap1958]

With Nothing Nothing Nothing in it (indeed, it is new, virgin, unspoiled), it wanted to heat and grind for 4 solid hours last night according to the app. I canceled the session, and unplugged the unit. It will go back. What a waste of electricity. It's a nice concept, especially for those of us in Northern climes where direct composting and digesting becomes impossible in the winter ( 19:59 ice, snow, raccoons, bears), but the energy usage is unacceptable. What is the point of the internal scale if it can't tell it has zero content? And yes, I reset the bucket to reset the scale several times at the apps suggestion, but to no avail. Just have a tare function, people! The app has a number of issues, and it's clear that the intended audience for this product is very elite. What a shame! For a tool that simply needs to heat and grind with a sensor to tell me when it's full (as on my vacuum), this could be re-engineered without an app, workout a smart function (which, clearly, does nothing beneficial and as all smart features, makes it hackable), greatly reducing the price, putting it in the price range of many more people.