These food scrap machines are cool for having a way to convert food waste to a non-smelly dried product but they are not really composters that create fertilizer with nutrients that plants can immediately access. Essentially they are scrap driers and grinders. You can store up the dried product in a dry place but to compost you will need to put through a regular composting system or worm bin. If you do a worm bin make sure it is well ventilated otherwise the worms can die from a lack of oxygen when your dried food scrap is reconstituted and starts to produce large amounts of CO2.
@MikeTrieu3 жыл бұрын
Eh, I toss meat scraps in there, too. The FC turns them into hard jerky bits. All of it goes into my worm bin with a good sprinkling of water and some loose coconut coir as bedding to keep everything aerobic. The worms quickly digest the plant matter while the earwigs, fungi, and bacteria rapidly break down the rest. It's a pretty complete decomposition, all things considered.
@electric74872 жыл бұрын
Or, save yourself all that unnecessary electricity and just put all your food waste into your worm bin without pointlessly desiccating and grinding it.
@scottpatrick8352 Жыл бұрын
Or throw it into a blender first.
@craigconway9930 Жыл бұрын
I wonder how much electricity from coal plants this machine uses to "Dry' compost that will need to be rewet later to restart the decomposition.
@Jumbaride Жыл бұрын
All of the wasted food on your table broke my heart a little, but thank you for making a video about this machine. 💙
@Chaoitcme4 ай бұрын
Yeah, that was the first thing I focused on rather than the actual review of the machine. So much waste. Food is expensive and watching him throw away berries because they feel out of the bowl onto the kitchen counter makes no sense.
@ffdd61022 жыл бұрын
It's a dehydrator with a grinder. I'm pretty sure composting is more than just drying things up and cutting it up
@whadayadoin33002 жыл бұрын
It's meant to give it head start not completely to completely compost
@Daviid-20092 жыл бұрын
@@whadayadoin3300 Yeah but Im pretty sure that the drying/heating process kills a high portion of your organics’ nutrients, so really it’s more like a crippling start
@electric74872 жыл бұрын
@@whadayadoin3300 That's not how ANY of this works.
@iresineherb76 ай бұрын
Like 80% If you want to achieve 20% just piss on it and leave it to sun I am not even joking
@JamesJones-ql3kr2 жыл бұрын
Just bought this, can't wait. Food scraps are a pain to get rid of, we keep a large rotating bin in the yard. It takes months to reduce waste. This will do it overnight, and I can toss the product into my raised beds. Love my Vitamix blender, they make quality products.
@darrenbayerMT2 жыл бұрын
Results?
@electric74872 жыл бұрын
Or you can grind your food waste in the garbage disposal for a fraction of the electricity and effort of these things.
@MP7082 жыл бұрын
Another option is to grind the food scraps on the vitamix blender into a nutrient blend.
@Chaoitcme4 ай бұрын
Does the place where you live not have compost bin pickups? Where I live we have a green bin where we put compostable waste into that the city picks up once a week.
@tracydr012 жыл бұрын
Can the compost then run through a worm bin? Thinking it could super charge my worms and get finished worm compost very quickly?
@alicewanty7446 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video. I am just wondering why you did not put the coffee filter into the food cycler?
@alanliard18293 жыл бұрын
Good video - thanks 4-8 hours, i'd love to know how much electricity this uses. Cool concept but in terms of carbon foot print, i think it defeats the purpose if it uses hydro for several hours.
@DIYLifeTech3 жыл бұрын
I tested that! About .5 KWH per cycle. So yes, good if you're on clean power sources, bad if you're on coal
@clf67152 жыл бұрын
If you had solar, this would be no problem.
@CharlesAlanRobinson2 жыл бұрын
Carbon is good for the plants. They eat it. And it's good for them. Look it up. It's science.
@electric74872 жыл бұрын
@@DIYLifeTech Actually, no. It's bad if you're on clean energy sources, and horrible if you're on non-carbon-capture coal or natural gas.
@andrewmena31182 жыл бұрын
Ya i gota say just invest in a good LIPO battery and a portable solar panel (with a solar controller) about 100 watt portable solar panel is plenty to recharge your battery. Then With your inverter that converts your 12v battery to 110v or 220v depending on your location/country you will be SET. This product can work without using your electrical grid and there you go buddy, clean!!!!!!!!
@clf67152 жыл бұрын
When you drop in fruit with the seeds, does the heat kill the growth of those seeds? I wouldn’t want a fruit tree seedling sprouting up in my garden. Also, doesn’t the heat kill the nutrients and good bacteria in the food being composted?
@MikeTrieu7 ай бұрын
The heat kills everything: seeds, bacteria, and most of the volatile nutrients. The only things left are carbon and whatever heat-stable minerals that are left like calcium or phosphorus.
@Kttex22 жыл бұрын
How long before you have to change the filter
@rorogii7736 Жыл бұрын
4 months , I read this in some reviews
@MikeTrieu7 ай бұрын
Depends on how stinky what you're processing is. I just change mine whenever the carbon gets saturated and I can begin smelling the odor. Also, I found that the carbon Vitamix uses is inferior to coconut husk activated charcoal you can buy in bulk from places like Amazon. You'll be able to go a lot longer between filter changes if you switch to a different form of activated charcoal due to difference between naturally microporous ground granules compared to compressed pellets.
@thebestiarybell2 жыл бұрын
the idea seems great but mine broke fairly quickly. still can't figure out how to get it repaired. expensive failed experiment. :(
@CovelloST2 жыл бұрын
Mine just came in and I’m more than excited to start the process. Thanks for you simple and clear video. So many of them are way longer than I have time for. Yours was nice, easy, and to the point! ❤️
@yarpenzigrin18932 жыл бұрын
You fell for a scam. How dumb are you?
@darrenbayerMT2 жыл бұрын
How are the results?
@electric74872 жыл бұрын
@@darrenbayerMT I'd bet she's gone silent after seeing that this thing has been quadrupling her electricity bills ever since she bought it.
@a_l_e_k_sandra10 ай бұрын
How long did it take to regret it?
@CamperRick Жыл бұрын
My wife has one and its very expensive and problem prone. The first one died and Vitamix replaced it. Then the bucket part locked up and my wife had buy a new one. Support on that last problem was sub par. I don't recommend the Vitamix Foodcycler.
@MikeTrieu7 ай бұрын
I find it very hard to believe the bucket actually locked up. I've abused mine every way you can imagine, even scraped some of the ceramic paint off the bottom due to grinding rough bones. But I've never had it seize up on me that couldn't be remedied with a bit of Goo Gone and some elbow grease.
@DianaMaggard Жыл бұрын
Is there any benefit of doing this rather than dehydrating and blending your food scraps? I always have those two tools
@MikeTrieu7 ай бұрын
You could do that, yes, but do you want to defile your blender and dehydrator with rotten food? And what about the smell? Plus, the FoodCycler's blade is much higher torque than your blender, so it can break through harder materials like poultry bones and even pork or beef bones (if you soften them a bit first in a pressure cooker).
@askrhonnie63562 жыл бұрын
This is a game changer because my traditional compost always draws ants! I would put this in the mud room or garage where we wouldn’t have to hear the noise.
@lwitt84482 жыл бұрын
Great review, thank you!
@unshakentomato56092 жыл бұрын
Wait, it can handle... blackberries?!?
@MikeTrieu7 ай бұрын
I personally wouldn't put any kind of sweet fruit in there. The sugar in it will burn on the surface and gum up the blade.
@pumpkineater_69557 Жыл бұрын
That’s not compost. That’s food particles broken into bits. If you add it to your garden it will steel nitrogen from your solid in order for it to decompose. The bits added to a compost heap will decompose much more quickly because of the increased surface are the microbes have to work on so it good in that way, but you’d need to add back the moisture as the microbes need some moisture as well as oxygen so your gonna need to stir/ flip the pile at times. But then you can just get an old blender to break up all your food scraps before you add to the compost pile so the heating part is useless and a waste of energy. You could add this on top of your garden soil as a mulch but I’d worry as you start watering it or rain etc that you’d start to get odours. So I’d say to pass on this product.
@crochetallday433 жыл бұрын
Thanks for reviewing this! I'm really intrigued!
@scottpatrick8352 Жыл бұрын
I find your choice of not bothering to clean it out before you made a video very interesting, and all it is is a dehydrator with a grinder. What's the big deal?
@victorybeginsinthegarden3 жыл бұрын
It's over priced but I still want one 😂🤣😂
@aaronmoreno92162 жыл бұрын
Buy a cheap dehydrator and a blender. Would do the same thing
@MikeTrieu7 ай бұрын
@@aaronmoreno9216I doubt you'd want to process rotten food in such a setup, unless you run them outside. Kinda inconvenient. And you'd still have to break up the hardened slurry afterward. Too much of a hassle, IMHO.
@mrose40342 жыл бұрын
Available in India?
@Chaoitcme4 ай бұрын
The guy in the video sure throws out a lot of perfectly good food. Hopefully that food was just being used to demo the unit and he does not throw out good food like that normally.
@chrisandjosephineroth6953 Жыл бұрын
Bagel?
@franackerman2953 жыл бұрын
I really want one, but cannot get one in the uk 😢
@Zep-Dev3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, you can. Look up Sage Appliances. I hesitate because of reviews saying it consumes a lot of electricity. I’d rather get a kitchen composter.
@franackerman2953 жыл бұрын
@@Zep-Dev yeah your right… I got one and you know what… I love it… put an energy monitor on it… uses about 500 watts of power to run a full cycle… but that’s only the same as boiling the kettle a couple of times, and plus I have solar with battery storage so it’s kinda free for me. £400 isn’t free mind ya, but the maggot and fly free wheelie bin and free plant food is good.
@winebox2 жыл бұрын
@@Zep-Dev I'm in the northern midwest so don't compost a lot in the winter as it's hard to cover the compost. This would be great to use during that time.
@bobs.46443 жыл бұрын
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?
@DIYLifeTech3 жыл бұрын
No you can't eat the results according to Vitamix
@bobs.46443 жыл бұрын
@@DIYLifeTech Well since it takes the moisture out I wonder if you rehydrated then it will be safe to eat 🤪
@bobs.46443 жыл бұрын
I'm buying one in two weeks from the military exchange
@MikeTrieu3 жыл бұрын
It's the wrong tool for the job. You'd be better served with a food processor and a dehydrator or freeze dryer for edible foods.
@bobs.46443 жыл бұрын
@@MikeTrieu i tryed it im not dead yet 🤠 i used 3 cans of Sardines 3 ½ old slightly moldy tomatoes 4 old chilly dogs frome Restaurant and 2 cup's of old beef Cabeza. I tryed it befor it was completely dry. Ho ya i put some raw shrimp in it 😋 🤪 😏 😜
@karlhungus5554 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if all the raw materials used to manufacture these devices (metals, plastics, electronics), package them (plastic wrap, cardboard, ink) and ship them around the world (gasoline, diesel) are really worth it, only to have them eventually end up in a landfill themselves? I doubt it.
@Wordsalad694204 ай бұрын
Good video, but that is not compost. It’s dehydrated ground up organic matter you can add to your compost.
@DIYLifeTech4 ай бұрын
That’s true if you want to be technical about it, yes!
@Wordsalad694204 ай бұрын
@@DIYLifeTech Not really being technical. Compost is compost. Compost takes months to make.
@elevatorproductionsbymaxpassa2 жыл бұрын
Faster meal preparation and after meal cleanups!!!
@electric74872 жыл бұрын
It's a scam. The "rapid composter" has a decent history as a failed product, by the very nature of what it does. Thunderf00t debunked Lomi, a very similar "rapid composter" recently: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIm9eGChr9Gbhrs And he mentions the FoodCycler later on in his video. Basically there's not much you can do when it comes to composting in 24 hours, because no microorganism ever can work that fast. All you can really do in 24 hours is desiccate and grind, which turns out to be one of the most energy-intensive things you could do to your waste.
@trade07142 жыл бұрын
I saw the Lomi video some time ago. I wonder why it's not practical (or is it?) to just grind the food up into little pieces and just throw that into the garden? I also wonder if the heat process used by these machines ruins the nutritional value of the "compost" that it creates? Maybe all I need is a high-powered grinder ... like the Vitamix blender I already have. My Vitamix blender has worked perfectly for at least 7 years now. If it ever broke, I'd order another one that same day.
@electric74872 жыл бұрын
@@trade0714 It's not a good idea if you don't have chickens or other farm animals because you're pointlessly wasting electricity to pointlessly grind up your food waste. You're far better off grinding your food waste in the garbage disposal.
@MonstersNotUnderTheBed2 жыл бұрын
@@trade0714 Yeah I'm very suspicious of this insta-composter. Better to grind it all up and toss in compost box outside for nature to do it's work
@LoiNguyen-ie3td2 жыл бұрын
you can just hand chop any large scraps toss it in a compost bin. let nature take it course and you’ll have rich compost to use in your garden in no time. no electricity needed and you saved $400
@youknowiactafool Жыл бұрын
@@LoiNguyen-ie3td in no time, only 6 months lol. 5 to 8 hrs is quite nice
@mateopucu Жыл бұрын
Love my Vitamix but smh
@nipunkapur1148 Жыл бұрын
Quite noisy and very small capacity .
@kingcongmad2 жыл бұрын
you have way too much "food scraps"
@ianspaintpot2 жыл бұрын
what i con than thing is how much does it cost in electric to produce a small amount of stuff for your soil it would not take of in the uk we are smarter than you lot we would not waste our money
@clf67152 жыл бұрын
Smarter in the UK? Ya, uh-huh, right. Stay in your lane. You definitely should go back to school. Maybe this time try a school in the US, as you can’t seem to be able to put together a complete, coherent sentence after attending a UK school.. Next time you decide to mock another country’s intelligence first perform a self-check.
@privatename34472 жыл бұрын
$400 is pricy
@goulartaf669 ай бұрын
NASA stuff..
@LoiNguyen-ie3td2 жыл бұрын
what a gimmick
@apAvocado2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Really wasteful to throw away half of a bagel with cream cheese, strawberries, and blackberries. Like, can't you feed that to your dog or eat it yourself? What a waste of money and electricity. Use the Vitamix to grind up fresh produce scraps and pour the liquid mess into a pot (with drain holes) with soil, PUT OUTSIDE, let sit a few weeks, occasionally stirring it. Save your money and your electric bill.
@goulartaf669 ай бұрын
You guys waste a lot of food you should be eating. LoL thought it's meant for scraps not just uneven food