Comptoir kitchen Compost is a beautiful vision. Instead of a smelly bucket of remnants of vegetables and reproductive coffee grounds on fruit flies on your counter or attract rats in your backyard, you can put everything in a clever electric gadget, and at some point indeterminate in the future, you will have an abundant supply of compost rich in nutrients to use in your garden.
Unfortunately, none of the most popular electric machines on the market does. Even if some of these devices are marketed as “composers” and have booklets and instructions applications detailing all the ways in which compost can be used, the vast majority of kitchen composers will simply grind and dry your food pieces. Your production of waste will be considerably reduced in volume and no longer feels, but if you hope to put eggs and banana peels in a machine and make the type of real compost as if you are buying from the Garden Center, this will not happen.
That said, you can Mix small quantities of these land in the soil in very small relationships, or use them as a feeder for a pile of “real” compost, but most of these machines are intended for those who want to reduce the volume of food waste that their household produces. Which is in itself a legitimate objective, while foods cast 24% municipal solid waste, resulting in the release of methane, a destructive greenhouse gasAs he breaks down into the discharge.
Or maybe you would like your food terrain to be odorless and stable before adding them to your green waste tank for municipal composting or your backyard compost. In any case, despite the cries of criticisms of Green-Lavage And Business AstroturfingThere is still value to these devices. They make people more aware of their food waste. They do not use as much power as you think (about 1 kilowat-hour was typical). And our first choice, the Re -entlete prime (8/10, wired recommends), even produces something close to compost.
Read the rest for our evaluation, and once you have finished, consult some of our other kitchen-related guides, including the best coffee makers, the best feature-grolers, the best meat subscription boxes and the best meal kit delivery.
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How I tested
I am editor -in -chief of the trade of Wired in charge of home and cooking devices and I have reviewed the products for our equipment section for 10 months. I cook daily for my family of three people, and I treat our remains of cooking in these composers in my home kitchen since summer 2024. Each has been tested under typical housewife for at least four weeks each, and in several cases six weeks or more. I tested all the cycles offered and with all kinds of foods authorized according to the manual, and in the case of the reached and the mill, I even tried to use the finished product in my courtyard and the interior plants (with a variable effect).
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Best overall
As mentioned above, none of these machines manufactures a compost really ready to use, but the Re -entlete prime (8/10, Wired recommends) is closest to a traditional compost bin. Popular in South Korea Years before its appearance in the United States, the re-entlete arrives with a re-entlemicrobe starting bag (which can be bought separately For $ 65) containing activated carbon, wooden lozenges, glucose and a trio of patented microbes ready to withdraw. There is also a prefabilized carbon filter that slides in the back.
At 14 x 15 x 22 inches, the first is too large for a kitchen counter but works in place a bit like a heated trash can. The cover can be opened via the lower sensor or a control panel button, and in your organic matter. That’s it. There are no cycles, tablets or auxiliary buckets to be feared. Even the application is completely optional. In hours, depending on the element, the remains are broken down into a material resembling a cross between dirt and sawdust.
