Food Cycler Eco 5 Award-Winning Kitchen Food Recycler | Indoor Composter Bin Alternative | Electric Countertop Food Disposer with Odorless 5L Indoor Food Waste Bin for Easy Waste Management | White

Much easier than composting! Working well for us so far. Whisper quiet - no smell. Really impressed.

Actually, it was my husband who urged me to write this review since I don't review items much. I went to his office room and said, "This food composter is one of the most important implements I have ever bought for our house." He said to write a review. I live rurally, and we are forever plagued unsurprisingly by mice, rats, and others. I had an outside food bin for composting, but the rats got into it all the time. When the rats started getting in walls of my very old home, and had apparently their evening meals on my compost bin, I learned of this recycler from friends. I purchased this on Amazon one year ago. OMG what a wonderful tool. I eliminated the outdoor compost pile (we did do some patching of our walls), and I use the food recycler 3x a week. It's quiet, I'm left with a fine powder like substance in the bottom, no mechanical problems, AND NO MORE RATS IN OUR WALLS!! Great product.

I had the Lomi food composter and thought it was a miracle. Two years later it needed a repair. Customer support was unresponsive. Seriously crickets. I simply wanted to see if they could repair it. I complained to Amazon. They also had no luck in contacting Lomi. Thankfully they honored my loyality as a consumer, told me to return my broken Lomi, and gave me a credit. How great was that! I researched alternative composters and discovered the work horse of composters : the Food Cycler Eco 5! The reviews were excellent. Best of all, reviewers, and the company assurred me of the 3 year warantee! I pulled the trigger and ordered it. I LOVE it! Having been a loyal Lomi fan, I crossed over and now am a full fledged Food Cylcler Eco 5 fan. It is such a better, thoughtful, efficient product. When running, I barely hear it. The Lomi was SO LOUD! There are really helpful directions about maintenance, cleaning, and over all care. Absent with Lomi. The carbon cartridges are much easier to load. The run time is comprable to Lomi and yields the same type of compost. Still I know have upgraded! Forget the Lomi!

Works just as expected. Filled the bin with corn cobs, veggie peels, and food scraps. In about 5 hours it was turned into a mulch looking substance. The machine is very quiet and fits perfectly on a kitchen counter. There is no smell what so ever.

We use this daily! Works great! The noise level is very mild and acceptable. I would say the only draw back is the smell sometimes, however it’s not a problem since we keep it in the garage.

This has helped in so many ways for dealing with food scraps, and giving us a way to continue composting the food scraps we generate in the winter. Only a couple things which IMO would make this perfect, but not really things I'd knock a star down for: - it'd be nice if the bucket were a bit easier to clean. Sometimes things get stuck under the blades which can be difficult/hazardous to clean. - our electric utility switched to time of day pricing, and as a general rule we try to run everything we can at off-peak hours. A "delayed start" timer function would be great for this.

This is a big purchase and you have to be pretty committed to reducing your waste stream to do this. We just have a few outdoor flowers and don't a big garden anymore (just a few tomatoes) so our biggest challenge has been what to do with the compost once it's created. Most of it just gets spread on the yard. As far as the device itself, it's been working great (once or twice a week) for over a year. We run it at night when electricity is cheaper and don't really notice any impact on our bill. Ours is in the garage so the smell is never really an issue although I think if it were in the house we would have to be more diligent about keeping the filters clean and charcoal fresh.

A pot full of veg and fruit trimmings, tea bags, coffee grounds, shrimp shells, popcorn hulls, etc., turned into this fine grained compost in a few hours. Just set the basket full of food scraps in the housing, turn it on and it takes care of itself. Quiet and unobtrusive while processing. The container has a filter in the lid that completely prevents odors as it sits on the kitchen counter collecting material to be processed. This is a simple overnight sensation. It reduces the bulk of food processed by about 90%. The resulting compost is dry and fluffy (as long as you don't add greasy foods or too much doughy or high-liquid-content scraps). The finished compost easily empties into a bucket just waiting for the spring garden. We've always had great success with Vitamix products, and this one did not disappoint.