Food Cycler FC-30 Compact Kitchen Food Recycler | Indoor Composter Bin Alternative | Electric Countertop Food Disposer with Odorless 2.5L Indoor Food Waste Bin for Easy Waste Management

I love this because I am able to keep my composting going through the winter cold months of the year where we can't normally do composting outside due to the deep freeze we get for about a half of the year. We get 6 months of cold and about 6 months of farming, so this really helps with the continuity needed to keep a good compost going.

Bought this in April 2019 and have used it daily it more since with virtually no issues. It reminds you not to send loads of bread through,or really soupy stuff, but if I ignore that and send lots of moldy rolls, it does tend to stick the grinder, or if I send really wet things that have pooled a bit of liquid in the bottom of my compost bin and over fill the food cycler bucket then sometimes it won't dry fully and I'll need to run it a second time. There is a fill line and I routinely overfill it, my bad I know but usually it turns out just fine. I knew from reading reviews that this was more of a food grinder/dehydrator, but living in the northeast US it lets me compost year round, we just fill a plastic bin with the food cycler results until spring and then use it in the holes before we plop the seedlings in the ground with great results. It significantly reduces our trash, really helps with the trash smell (since there is little to no food in there to get stinky now) and allows us to compost way more efficiently since even when we put the food cycler debris into the compost bin outside it breaks down super fast. It can be stinky when I run it, but honestly I don't really change the filters we just run it overnight, it takes 8-12 hours, and that just depends on what I'm running. Sometimes it smells good (apple scraps and chicken bones smell quite delicious!) But probably not if they sit for a day or so before you run them. Overall I absolutely love this thing and it's held up to my not super kind use of it.

I was so excited to buy this product. I live in a very green household, so the premise was perfect. Unfortunately, the device is not. It says 3-5 hours. In reality, it was 7-12 hours. We ran 6 batches before returning it and none of them went less than 7 hours. It says just place your waste in the unit. In reality, unless you cut all of it up fairly small, you end up with big chunks. It says it has large capacity. In reality, it's a medium - small bucket that you have to leave 1/4 empty. And the stuff it produced was sometimes good (not great), sometimes easy too chunky, and sometimes it caked on like glue that wouldn't come if of the bucket without really hard scrubbing. Never once was it anything resembling compost. Not even close! Great idea. Horrible execution. And it's big and heavy to boot. I am very bummed out with this purchase.

This product has cut our household waste by over 75%; instead of taking out the trash 2x / week, we now take it out every two weeks. I credit this device for reducing our waste. As other reviews have stated, the Food Cycler grinds and dries the food scraps, turning them into a find, earth-like material that my husband and I spread over our lawn and in the garden in the warmer months of the year. The Food Cycler accepts all food scraps. The bucket that does the grinding holds about half of what my compost bin collects, so I need to run the Cycler at least 2x/ day in order to keep up with our household's output. As a result, I would consider us heavy users. We run our cycler in our garage. The result of the 3-hour process is stickier if what goes in is moist. As stated in previous reviews, when this happens, I sometimes have to scrape out the bucket. It also helps to run the cycler twice when this happens, and the results are much drier. Our filters stopped working after 3 months and the machine got stinky, fast, so be sure to have replacement filters on standby. For whatever reason, the first set of replacement filters that I bought did not do much to minimize the smell, and when I called Customer Service, they were extremely helpful and sent me replacement filters right away. Their Facebook commentary is also brilliant. Overall, I am very happy with our Food Cycler, and have recommended it widely within my network.

It was a waste of money and resources. Please don't buy it. I got it because I had good intentions of helping the environment, but since I didn't want to deal with the inconvenience of traditional composting in a small apartment (meaning I don't have yard and don't want to deal with smells or proper mixing of compost), I got my hopes up with this product. The unit worked well at first, and it was exciting to see the smaller, dry scraps. But the unit is really heavy and takes up a lot of space, while not really making it any easier. It does not produce compost that you can easily throw onto some plants and trust it'll come out. To be fair, I'm not an expert on how to produce compost, but I think it's also disappointing how this company markets to the type of consumer who will pay extra for convenience--I realize it's just easier to drop off food scraps at a farmers market or community garden or even advocate for a municipal composting system, than to lug around this huge machine. After a little more than a year, it broke. If I had been most consistent about using it, it probably would have broken during the warranty period, but that's not really that much more helpful. I'm willing to pay more for convenience, but when I messaged customer service, they sent me this huge list of questions and instructions on how to fix it. I have enough of that mind numbing stuff to do at work and don't think I should be spending my own energy and brainpower to fix what should not have broken down so quickly. So I'm planning to trash the appliance...and now I feel extra guilty about the environment and what a waste of resources that it is. I recommend you save your money, and make soup stock with your scraps and/or store (freezer or refrigerator isn't bad if you have the room) the scraps until you can drop them off or get it picked up by a place that will take better care of them.

We love this electric composter! It is quiet and easily manages our daily food leftovers and peels, tea bags, coffee grounds, etc. And turns it into beautiful dry and odorless compost. We live in a frozen land so having this work indoors, on our countertop is perfect. Highly recommend this machine to all who care about reducing garbage going to landfills and about restoring nutrients to Mother Earth!

Item has been supplied with a 2 pin plug. All appliances in UAE should be sold with.a 3 pin plug.

ボタンひとつで全部やってくれる。 出来上がると香ばしい匂いがします。 音も気にならないので夜も大丈夫。 一つだけ、中のバケツをはめる時に合わせる線 が欲しかった

I bought this a month or so ago and we use it 3-4 times per week. Easy to use, easy to clean, no smell. I chop everything up small so it doesn't labour so hard as it dehydrates the food and then grinds it up. Sometimes the pieces are really small and sometimes they are a little larger (size of a quarter) but they break easy and crumble. We are keeping the dried remains in a bucket in the front hall and you would never know it was there. We bought this in December and should have a reasonable amount by garden season. Other people's comments are about the smell in the garden...instructions are clear...you do not spread it on top of the soil. You mix it in well underneath another layer of soil so that it is buried. The tiny pieces re-hydrate and then decompose the way any other compost does. That is why there is a benefit to chopping everything up small at the start; it pays off later with faster decomposition. We are happy with this, haven't had to do anything with the filters and no indicator light has come on to change them. That said...we are not throwing in kitchen scraps from dinner plates etc. the way they show in the picture. To me that really creates rot and odour. I am only composting egg shells and veggie/fruit related stuff from food prep the same as I did with our outdoor composter. Citrus peels are only used on their own as a "cleaner" for the interior and then tossed away. Very happy.

生ゴミコンポストバケツで１年がんばったけど、カビ、虫、臭いで、夏場は悲鳴をあげるほど 中古で購入しました 使用して１年経ちますが、残飯によってはこびりついて大変なものもありますが、コンポスト時代を思うと楽ちんで重宝してます