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The smallest powered food waste recycler in the world creating soil fertilizer in hours. Fertilizer from Food Scraps in mere hours. 2L Capacity for most table and refrigerator scraps including chicken bones. Cuts down volume of food waste by up to 90% . Flexible Home Placement & stores anywhere with power. Easy to Operate with 4-8 hour processing time. 3 Year Limited Warranty.
Fertilizer from Food Scraps in mere hours; Power: 500W
2L Capacity for most table and refrigerator scraps including chicken bones
Cuts down volume of food waste by up to 90%. ABS Plastic Shell Cast, Aluminum Bucket
Flexible Home Placement & stores anywhere with power
Easy to Operate with 4-8 hour processing time. Radial cooling fan and thermal protection system
Easy To Use : Run multiple cycles per day, year round, with just the press of a button. After each cycle, simply put the removable waste bucket in the dishwasher for easy cleaning.
Customers say
Customers find the food storage container easy to use and producing good compost from kitchen waste. They appreciate its quiet operation and odorless output. Many find it a great option for winter composting and using the finished product in their gardens. However, opinions differ on value for money, size, and build quality.
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WillGrant –
Great appliance
We’ve had this nice little appliance for 6 weeks and can now, confidently, say that it’s well worth it. I got it on sale for $299 which made it much more attractive than the more expensive “other brand”. I also prefer the cubic shape because it slides into spaces nicely.The inner bucket is 2L. I worried that it would be too small but I think that I like that because I really wouldn’t want moist, organic waste sitting around very long. That said, there are days when I do have to run it twice. Outside of those days, every other day is the norm. Extra bucket, would be nice but not for $100. I just use a bowl until I can get the bucket back.Suitable foods – we put veg and fruit scraps, rice, breads, egg shells. The odd bit of cheese ends up in there too. I will rough chop banana peels and avocado seeds. Fibrous things tend to get stuck between the paddles and inner bucket wall. Onion peels do not seem to break down so I will use scissors to cut them up going forward.It is a fairly long cycle, so we try to keep to off peak hours or weekends.With regards to smell, there can be a bit of an earthy/funky smell but it’s not smelly like bad food. If the weather is not bad, I will put it out in the gazebo. On bad weather days, I put it on top of the stove with the rangehood fan on.It is easy to use – fill the bucket, line up the arrow on the bucket with the arrow on the unit, tuck the handle down, put the lid on, lock it and press the button.Output – after 6 weeks, we have about 3L of output and our green bin is about 1/3 full by garbage day which comes around every week. It’s mostly cat litter and meat bones.
Choe –
This Makes My Life Sooooooo Easier
Firstly, I live in a condo. So, to dispose of food waste, I have to take the elevator down to the basement each time. Additionally, the food waste collection service company does not allow any compostable bags, they accept only paper bags so I have to purchase expensive paper food waste bags. The only company manufacturing these paper food waste bags that I could find in the supermarkets and drugstores I visited is quite expensive, and if food waste is left in them for too long, the liquid that forms can cause the bags to leak. As a result, I was very stressed about dealing with food waste. Then I bought this product, and it suits my living environment perfectly.At first, based on my experience using it, I noticed some of the downsides mentioned in reviews, but most of them were not significant issues for me.1. Difficulty Handling Moist Food Waste: If you put extremely wet or greasy food waste into the machine, it is difficult for it to dry out. For instance, if you bought pork belly, didn’t eat it, froze it, and then discarded it, the fat and moisture in the pork belly would leave a lot of residual moisture. However, in most cases, I place a colander in a bowl in the sink, collect food waste there throughout the day, press it to remove some moisture, and then put it in the food waste processor. This way, I don’t encounter any significant problems.2. Noise: Usually, if you place the food waste processor in the kitchen and close the bedroom door, you can barely hear its noise. However, if you put hard fruit seeds or chicken bones in it, there can be occasional loud noises every 5 or 10 minutes while it’s running, which can be heard even with the bedroom door closed if the bedroom is close to the kitchen. (Not too loud if you are in a room and with door closed) In this case, I recommend placing the machine inside a kitchen cabinet and closing the drawer door. This significantly reduces the noise.3. Food Waste Processing Time: It generally takes 6-8 hours, which might seem like a long time. However, I usually collect food waste throughout the day and put it in the processor at night, so I don’t find the processing time particularly long.
Amazon Customer –
Very impressed
This is one of those purchases that is want rather than need. We have an outdoor compost bin which is not well utilized and I believe has added to our rodent problem. This is not cheap by any means. I have used it daily now for more than a month and I am very pleased with the results. It has limitations in that I don’t think very hard compost pieces will work in it. Stringy vegetables will also not work as it will get wound up around the rotating component. The end product is literally resembling Sawdust. One time I put in something that was too moist and the end product was very sticky and stuck to the rotating blades. I just repeated the cycle and it worked perfectly. It is easy to clean if you just soak the container in water for a few hours if something was baked on during the drying cycle. Overall very happy with this purchase as it has reduced my compost waste immensely and I just tip the end product into my garden.
Willow0707 –
Something Extra For The Garden
Love this machine, works well and easy to use. I snagged a great deal and happy with this purchase.
Larca –
This is a game changer
I am a third floor walk up apt. Am sick to death of double bag garbage to prevent leaking. This machine is uber quiet. Dosent make soil grade compost but does a stand up job of major reduction of food waste. I just took leftover turkey soup bones and other leftovers and made less than a handfull of mulch. As for the cleaning just give it a wipe or a plasic utensil scrape while warm and start to reuse…job done! I love it. I have a very small kitchen so the housing is stored under the sink and is heavy to pull out and put back..i keep the container pot separate for filling. No complaints for this product.
Dude who reviews –
I’m not adverse to having a garbage disposal and after we just did a remodel on a 17-year-old home that we have owned I found in the garbage disposal wastewater line 30% blockage minimum from the garbage disposal and we use a very high-end disposal and always have. We’ve also treated our pipes with toxifying chemicals to keep the pipes clear.When we remodeled the kitchen I did not want to have another garbage disposal because when I rerouted the piping I noticed that heavy blockage in my pipes and was perturbed at minimum. I don’t like all those chemicals going into your water supply and I don’t care what a water company does you can’t get it out.We were more than content in our new sink with its little basket to just dump that in the recycling or compost pile. And here we go with the food cycler from Vitamix. I think Vitamix is definitely leading the way here. We basically take all of our cooking goods and instead of throwing it in the trash or in the garbage disposal we just have the unit sitting next to the preparation area and it has a charcoal filter lid that rests simply on the top.We are a family of three currently and that amount of food prep is what gets cycled every night. If we have a heavy prep day we may do two cycles.I really appreciate this product because the volume that would go down my sink or in the trash can is cut by 100% in the sink and 96% minimum in trash because it dehydrates it grinds it and leaves it like a loose sediment. It even does small bones but they are still in their form so we just run those into the trash.If we run a batch of non-animal related products we can take the remnant at a 10 to 1 ratio with soil and amend our soil and use it to consume in our bodies but if we use eggshells or cheese or something like that then we do not consume that in our bodies and at the same ratio use that for our flower planting.It is so nice to know that my pipes are clean and our waste is minimalized. I’m not being a snotty person or anything like that it’s just that having a farm/rancher mentality you tend to take care of everything that is before you and you waste not if you want not. Farmers and ranchers are good stewards of the Earth and that is a bit of a bias and an approach. And to have a product like this is awesome.The underlying question is would I buy another one and I would definitely buy another one and I hope that some of the pricing will get a little less than a quality food grinder under the sink. I guess a question would be do we miss having a garbage disposal and the answer is resoundingly no. We have already adapted not even in a month of use and people are amazed that it’s 4-Hour cycle.Let’s say we have some friends over for breakfast and we have a heavy processing day. Once the food is fully been prepped and the plates have been cleaned after the food has been eaten into this device we may run it right then because about 4 hours from now it’ll be ready and it could be a little more than that depending on volume.What do we do if we have another meal in between we then simply leave one plate with that preparation remnant and after dumping the original run will add the next remnant and then into dinner and of course start the cycle of nightly running. This product is well made, extremely simple to operate and a blessing for us.I think another nice thing is not hearing a garbage disposal run or that putrid smell that emanates and that you have to constantly clean. That is a small benefit that I was not expecting.Lastly, we are very mindful of our sink/drain management and what goes down that pipe. It has to end up somewhere. If I put something that is not necessarily great because of a habit or what I’ve been trained to do and it affects your water supply then I have not been a good neighbor to you and I have caused you an extra layer of toxicity that your body does not need.So there you go, I hope you enjoy the purchase and maybe you have to wait for it to go on sale like we did and I am asking Vitamix to get a little bit lower price on that thing. But I would definitely save a little money and buy it. We try to pay for things in advance and wait until we have the money to pay for it as to not create a vicious cycle of credit and more so indebtedness.Thank you Vitamix for a well thought out product and you got full thumbs up from us. Blessings to you all.
tech_guy –
I started composting my kitchen scraps earlier this year, using a food dehydrator that I already have along with my food processor to grind down dried scraps and it has worked fine except it’s a 20 hr + process. This appliance performs all the tasks and does it easily and quietly without adding too much heat to my living space. Don’t use animal bones or parts, DO use all vegetable matter and egg shells. DO cut down large pieces like corn cobs or avocado skins into small pieces. Basically the smaller the better.For me, the smaller unit was a better fit than the larger unit and the included collection bucket stores up to 1 week of scraps from regular daily cooking of vegetables and fruits. Comes with a filtered lid to keep down any odors. Dry cycle then mulch then cool down and complete takes just under 8 hrs.When complete, a dried mulch is produced which is excellent for adding to my composting bin outside. Little worry of attracting rodents or animals. Size fits on a countertop on my wet bar in basement so I can transfer the collection bucket from my kitchen to the device easily and engage.Unit came with an enclosed card encouraging joining the Vitamix “Rewards” program but when I went to the named web site address, it said the program was discontinued. Not a good look Vitamix! But I still like the unit. Recommended.
Amazon Customer –
This little machine takes all of my scraps and turns it into light, dry, nutrient dense compost. I use it every day, and so fsr, no problems at all! My only complaint is that it’s pretty small. I have a little one gallon bin by my cutting board to collect all the scraps, and if I let it get too full, only about half will will fit into the recycler. I tried putting the bin on my countertop with the provided lid, but it doesn’t fit into the space real well. Overall, this product does exactly what it says it will, and does it quite well. No fuss, no mess, no smell, it just takes about 4 hours. Wait for it to go on sale, though. I paid $189 on sale and that’s totally worth it, but $400-no way!
Christopher Kouzios –
I loved the idea of composting my food scraps without actually having to build a compost bin. Anything to reduce what goes into a landfill PLUS makes a great plant fertilizer so I bought one.It does a great job of doing what it claims – grinding food up to and including small bones which make great compost btw – until the scratch proof coating on the bucket gets scratched then you’ll be replacing the basket. That took about 9 months for me but in fairness I run this thing through some hard core work.What it’s good at: anything dry and anything not TOO wet. So starches are great though have a low fertilizer rating but standard fruits and vegetables are a solid choice as well. This thing kills rinds and peels like a hit knife through butter. 6 hours is a fairly typical cycle time and then you’ve got compost-ish.Where it struggles: sticky. If it’s sticky or gummy – DONT DO IT. You’ll be cleaning that bucket for hours. If it’s too wet like melon leftovers – same advice. Too wet becomes too sticky.Pro tips: buy a vacuum sealed container for the compost because usually you’re going to have a basket full of food going in and a half cup max of output so it takes awhile to get enough to spread as fertilizer. A good $20 container is a great way to save enough to make your trip to the plants or garden worth it. Next, it’s not loud but it’s a little bit of an obnoxious background hum and whir so I recommend putting it in a room you won’t hear or care to hear it for 6 hours. Also if your unit has been running for more than 6 hours and isn’t finished – YOURE DONE and about to have a mess to clean up. That means it finished the cycle but whatever you loaded it with was still wet or gummy and it’s trying to dry it out more. That ensures your load get cemented in place and once that happens you’re soaking this basket for hours with repeated soak and rinse cycles to clean it.Overall it’s a really wonderful product and I’d spend the $400 all over again given the choice. 9 months of use has taught me a few things that I wish I had known in the beginning but the owners manual, like most owners manuals, became less useful once the lawyers got ahold of it so start out easy and figure out what mix of foods works best for you. Btw coffee ground are a great addition to the loads. It’s like adding a cleaning agent to the bucket. Tends to coat the walls and help stickier foods from getting too clumped. Also it will grind up those annoying recycled paper napkins and filters in SMALL quantities and again…less moisture is good.
Francie C –
To say that I’m impressed with this product would be an understatement. I’ve had it for just over a week and have used it every day.I’ve used a variety of food waste including coffee grounds, leftover meat scraps, citrus, vegetables, eggshells, bread / bagels, fruit, even some leftover cat food. It has worked wonderfully to “compost” all of it.I live in a rural area – yes…skunk, opossum, raccoon, fox, and bear. So, having a traditional outdoor compost setup just won’t work out. We have weekly garbage pick up but I was looking for a way to reduce some of that. Granted, it’s just my husband and me but I do a lot of cooking and 99% of the items I use are fresh and not processed / premade foods.I will say that the food “bucket” that you use for your scraps is on the small side so if you prepare your meals, as I do, with a lot of fresh ingredients and you have a family of four or more, you might not be as thrilled. On the occasions that I have more than I can process at a time I can run 2 cycles a day or just keep the scraps in a ziplock win the fridge until the next day.There is no foul odor. The filters do what they’re supposed to. The lid for the bucket works to contain odor as I fill it up during the day. Can’t even smell the onions or other strong odors as it sits on my counter.Once the composting is done, I dump it into a plastic bucket that I keep outdoors and when that gets full I will dispose of it on our property. There is no smell to it so it won’t attract any critters.Some folks have commented in their reviews that it’s noisy, foul smelling, it leaves a goopy / sludgy mess, or that it takes too long. It’s not loud, it doesn’t smell, you have to use common sense as far as what you put in to process, and who cares how long it takes. It’s not like you have to sit there and keep it company.The bucket has some type of lining / coating that’s almost like a nonstick surface. Cleaning it is a breeze. I simply wash it out by hand though it is dishwasher safe. The unit is a bit heavy to move around, though not impossible, so find a place that will be convenient so you don’t have to relocate it often. It isn’t huge but does take up counter space so find a location that works for you.My only negative is that though Vitamix has been around for many years, and certainly is a reputable company, the FoodCycler is made in China. Not happy about that.Overall, the unit is robust and well made. It is easy to use and works very well.