Electric Kitchen Composter, 4L Large Capacity Smart Indoor Compost Bin with Timer Display, 2 Detachable Carbon Filter, Compost Machine Odorless for Countertop, Turn Waste into Natural Fertilizer

The media could not be loaded. SizeThis 4L composter is perfect for me, even as a single person. I wouldn’t recommend anything smaller, especially if you cook at home often using fresh fruits and vegetables, as you’ll generate plenty of scraps. For those who rely more on packaged or processed foods, a smaller unit might work, but for home cooks, this size is ideal.FiltrationOne of the standout features of this unit is its use of loose carbon pellets for odor control. Unlike other models that rely on proprietary filters, which can lock you into purchasing specific replacements, this system uses loose pellets you can purchase anywhere.Outdoor Composting ChallengesBefore this, I relied on a large outdoor composter. While it could handle large volumes, the results were frustrating. Scraps would break down into clumps about the size of golf or tennis balls, and I’d have to use a shovel to break them apart. Certain items—like chicken bones, avocado seeds, avocado skins, and eggshells—either didn’t break down properly or not at all. For example, avocado skins would sit in the composter indefinitely, chicken bones wouldn't compost and eggshells would break apart but they didn't break down.Initial Output: Ground ScrapsThis composter changes the game. It handles all those challenging materials and processes them into a dehydrated, ground-down consistency that resembles dark, rich dirt. This initial output is not true compost but works perfectly for mixing with garden soil. Outdoors, worms and other organisms will break it down further, and their castings (poop) will enrich the soil as natural fertilizer.For indoor plants, however, the initial output isn’t suitable as-is. You’ll want to turn it into true compost before using it in your pots or planters.Turning the Output into CompostIf you want to create actual compost, the process is simple but requires a couple of steps:Add water and yeast to the material and run it through the composter’s 10-hour fermentation cycle.Transfer the fermented material to a covered container (such as a lidded bucket) and store it for 10 days. During this time, bacteria will break it down further into rich, usable compost.Once this process is complete, you’ll have compost that you can mix into soil at a 1:10 ratio (compost to dirt) for indoor plants or use directly in your garden.After your first batch, you can maintain the bacterial base by simply adding fresh scraps to the container and mixing them in, much like feeding a sourdough starter. With the base established, you won’t need to repeat the fermentation process for subsequent batches unless you’re starting fresh.My ExperienceThis composter has far exceeded my expectations. In my video, you might notice a difference between the first and second bowls of material. The first batch didn’t turn out as well because I kept opening the lid to check on it out of curiosity! Since then, everything has been processed perfectly, resulting in consistent, dark, dirt-like material.SummaryThis 4L composter is an incredible solution for reducing food waste and creating high-quality compost. Whether you’re looking to replace an outdoor composter or want something effective for indoor use, this unit is versatile, efficient, and easy to use. It’s perfect for home cooks, gardeners, and anyone looking to reduce waste while improving their soil. Highly recommended!

I really liked this device and used it every day for 3 1/2 weeks. I really wanted it to work out. But alas, you can obviously already see my rating, and by the various comments on here, I already kind of knew that it wasn’t going to work out.so let’s get down to it.I’ll start with the bad. If you’re here looking for this device, because you wanna start composting, using less waste, wanting to feed your garden or plants, then you’re probably not going to like the fact that this is lined with Teflon.As we all know, Teflon seeps into foods and plants, and when congested, slowly kills you. It’s an enormous problem because it is one of various forever chemical plastics. Seeing how I would want to start a garden using this compost, feeding my garden with Teflon absorbed nutrients seems counterproductive to get away from the poisons that we find at our local grocery stores. Personally, I find this annoying but not a total deal breaker.OK now for the good. Honestly, I loved this thing and you’re probably wondering well if you loved it why have you left a bad review and we’ll get to that.The devices simple and quite easy to use. It isn’t a composter in that the material coming out is ready to be used as compost. You could certainly use it as fertilizer in very limited quantity, but its title as a “composer“ isn’t exactly fitting. In fact, a more fitting name would be a grinding blender oven. It’s not the most creative name but it’s accurate. It basically just shreds whatever you put into it while baking it and extracting all water vapor through a slow process. You then take that material and mix it with water in the bucket, adding yeast to turn it into usable, compost material that still needs to be mixed with soil 10 to 1.The filter media is just activated carbon. You could buy this at any superstore or even pet stores like I do if you keep fish. After using it for about a week, I could really smell the cooking of the scraps. But only ever so vaguely if you’re putting your food in there and letting it sit and rot, you’re doing it wrong so nothing out of this thing should smell out of the ordinary from normal every day cooking. Actually I thought the smell of baked banana peel, onion scrap, and garlic skins smell quite nice but I digress.Now, for the part, you probably all been waiting for, the ugly. As you go through all of the comments on here, there is a reoccurring theme it broke. It stopped working. It kept making weird clunking noises. The locking mechanism broke. Well, not a single one of those things happened to me, but in fact, all of them did.When I first got the device, I opened it up, took it out of the box plastic and removed all of the cardboard. I loaded it up with scraps and let it get to work while a headed to bed. Not five minutes later, I had to go back down stairs to turn it off because it was making a horrible clunking noise that sounded like using a hammer to screw a bolt down. The next morning I checked the devise and took the bucket out to find more cardboard….why in the f*€& would they put cardboard under the bucket without warning the customer with a sticker or tab of some sort?!That was the first incident and it went fairly smooth for a while till I noticed one day some of the teflon started to peel from around the hammer looking arm. I removed what I could of course but was concerned that the issue would only worsen.I of course had particularly been careful to make sure the lock inside was always locked correctly but that didn’t stop the top of the grinding arm from popping off and trying to grind its own parts in with my food waste. Needless to say, the end resulted in it mutating itself.Unfortunately, for this device, its build quality just isn’t there for me to recommend spending $200 on this. Luckily, I’m in the return window and I’m able to send it back. As disappointed as I am, it was fun while it lasted.

March 12th was an exciting day! It was full of composting opportunities!!!! I’ll say, it so far has been an amazing journey of food waste!Electric kitchen composter user here! I love this thing! We have this babygirl running like she has a full time job and some! No worries she doesn’t work tooooo much over time, hehe. We fill her up with all kinds of goodies. She get her veggies, grains, fruits and even protien. Yes protien!!! Yet she can only stomach chicken and fish along with there BONES!!! Hummmmm some would say… A kitchen composter that turns Bones into fluff??? You don’t say! Idk how many pounds of food waste she’s turned into soil gold, but she gonna keep on keepin on til the wheels fall off! Thank you for whom ever invented these beauties!,

We keep a plastic bin with a lid in our kitchen sink for food scraps, which we then compost. The bin fills quickly sometimes and almost always has a bit of an odor. It’s not an ideal system. When I started seeing these compost dehydrators, I was intrigued. Now that I have one, I’m a convert. What comes out isn’t “compost” — it’s dehydrated and ground, but it still has to go through the composting process. That said, this is less likely to draw pests that frequent traditional compost, and I suspect it would be excellent for vermiculture - planning to find out this spring.If your kitchen scraps are smelly, this machine is going to spread that smell - carbon filters be damned. I suggest doing it every few days, and I add some dry coffee grounds to the mix to help mitigate the odor.Easy to use, easy to clean, and overall appears to be a well designed product.