Thanks for reviewing this product, you have a great way explaining the pros and cons of owning or using this, very helpful. Thanks for sharing this info with us. Hope you have a great Holiday season.
Happy TG! I just wanted to suggest maybe a "voice over view" camera set up. 4 minutes of power point slides seemed weird. Excited to see what the winter will brings!
I assumed you ran out of footage. So if you film yourself talking it's more engaging than the slides. Or cut back and forth between points so viewers aren't staring at text.
Always check to see if your city has compost pickup as well! So many people in my area don’t know that it’s available, and in our case totally for free with regular trash pickup fees. The food waste just goes in the same yard waste bin and is sent to a local company that makes compost then sells it bagged. I even got a compost bin placed for free at my old workplace just by sending an email to request it. When I lived at an apartment that was outside city limits they refused to implement a compost pickup service. So I just dropped mine off at city hall as needed (after emailing them, they told me city hall had bins for that purpose). It was a good excuse to clean out my car regularly too. So even for folks living in an apartment or at an office compost pickup or drop off may be best! More and more municipalities are offering food waste/compost pickup as an option.
I agree if you have a compost your happy with keep that going, but if your in a small apt. it would and could be very beneficial... thanks for the review. I'm on two acres and all ready have a compost pile so I don't need one. thumbs up though,
I don't know anything about Vego, but the Lomi reviews I saw in the past concluded that it basically just dehydrated the food scraps and ground them up. In which case buying a food dehydrator, which has more functionality and is cheaper, is the better option. You can accomplish the same results by using the dehydrator and a blender. I am highly skeptical of those tablets. I'm not saying this is a scam or bad product, I just don't think most would find it useful. One thing I've always appreciated about Alton Brown is that he always looked for ways to use existing equipment instead of purchasing niche/single function items.
I do generally agree with you on that one, especially as someone who is running out of room in my kitchen and also supports decreasing consumerism. Although I try not to begrudge people their conveniences; rice cookers for example I feel like are totally unnecessary but I know so many people who would never attempt to make rice if they didn't have that convenience so more power to them. Practically, I think it's technically possible to do a dehydrator and blender situation here, but it would definitely be messier and more work. And I'm not sure how it would do with paper like the coffee filters. The composter does the grinding and drying together, so stuff can get ground kinda fine while it's still moist, when it's easier to grind. I could theoretically imagine throwing everything in a blender first, and then spreading the pulp in a dehydrator somehow, but idk if I'd put paper in a blender like that, and you also need something to support the pulp, like cheesecloth that then requires washing regularly. Similarly, you could dry first (although there's still a preliminary chopping step to get everything small enough to dry before it molds) and then blend later, but again, idk how well paper would do in that situation. Overall it's possible but it's certainly not convenient, and I think it would stop me personally from attempting it for the most part.
I just bought one as for me it will used to product a secondary ingredient for outdoor compost. I can't outdoor compost in Upstate NY because of the cold winters and usually save all my kitchen waste over the winter and use it to restart a pile in the spring, and its a mess to deal with in the spring. I emailed Vego if they ever tested the fertilized product for nutrient content and they responded but never answered it directly. I paid $299 on sale for the Vego composter and woudn't have paid the $499 non-sale price. The Lomi is slighly cheaper on Amazon but the Vego is 4 liters as compared to the Lomi 3 liter.
Yeah I imagine it would be hard for them to be straightforward about nutrient content because it depends a lot on what you start with to put in. The best test would be a direct comparison of the same exact scraps composted in two different ways, and you'd have to do this on a large scale to smooth over all the individual variability of nutrients in vegetables and the microbes that find it, etc.
Thanks for reviewing this product, you have a great way explaining the pros and cons of owning or using this, very helpful. Thanks for sharing this info with us. Hope you have a great Holiday season.
Happy TG! I just wanted to suggest maybe a "voice over view" camera set up. 4 minutes of power point slides seemed weird. Excited to see what the winter will brings!
Yeah I guess I did go into lecture mode there at the end. Not sure what you mean by voice over view though?
I assumed you ran out of footage. So if you film yourself talking it's more engaging than the slides. Or cut back and forth between points so viewers aren't staring at text.
Always check to see if your city has compost pickup as well! So many people in my area don’t know that it’s available, and in our case totally for free with regular trash pickup fees. The food waste just goes in the same yard waste bin and is sent to a local company that makes compost then sells it bagged.
I even got a compost bin placed for free at my old workplace just by sending an email to request it.
When I lived at an apartment that was outside city limits they refused to implement a compost pickup service. So I just dropped mine off at city hall as needed (after emailing them, they told me city hall had bins for that purpose). It was a good excuse to clean out my car regularly too.
So even for folks living in an apartment or at an office compost pickup or drop off may be best! More and more municipalities are offering food waste/compost pickup as an option.
Great advice!!
I agree if you have a compost your happy with keep that going, but if your in a small apt. it would and could be very beneficial... thanks for the review. I'm on two acres and all ready have a compost pile so I don't need one. thumbs up though,
Hallo my queen
I don't know anything about Vego, but the Lomi reviews I saw in the past concluded that it basically just dehydrated the food scraps and ground them up. In which case buying a food dehydrator, which has more functionality and is cheaper, is the better option. You can accomplish the same results by using the dehydrator and a blender. I am highly skeptical of those tablets.
I'm not saying this is a scam or bad product, I just don't think most would find it useful. One thing I've always appreciated about Alton Brown is that he always looked for ways to use existing equipment instead of purchasing niche/single function items.
I do generally agree with you on that one, especially as someone who is running out of room in my kitchen and also supports decreasing consumerism. Although I try not to begrudge people their conveniences; rice cookers for example I feel like are totally unnecessary but I know so many people who would never attempt to make rice if they didn't have that convenience so more power to them.
Practically, I think it's technically possible to do a dehydrator and blender situation here, but it would definitely be messier and more work. And I'm not sure how it would do with paper like the coffee filters. The composter does the grinding and drying together, so stuff can get ground kinda fine while it's still moist, when it's easier to grind. I could theoretically imagine throwing everything in a blender first, and then spreading the pulp in a dehydrator somehow, but idk if I'd put paper in a blender like that, and you also need something to support the pulp, like cheesecloth that then requires washing regularly. Similarly, you could dry first (although there's still a preliminary chopping step to get everything small enough to dry before it molds) and then blend later, but again, idk how well paper would do in that situation. Overall it's possible but it's certainly not convenient, and I think it would stop me personally from attempting it for the most part.
I just bought one as for me it will used to product a secondary ingredient for outdoor compost. I can't outdoor compost in Upstate NY because of the cold winters and usually save all my kitchen waste over the winter and use it to restart a pile in the spring, and its a mess to deal with in the spring. I emailed Vego if they ever tested the fertilized product for nutrient content and they responded but never answered it directly. I paid $299 on sale for the Vego composter and woudn't have paid the $499 non-sale price. The Lomi is slighly cheaper on Amazon but the Vego is 4 liters as compared to the Lomi 3 liter.
Yeah I imagine it would be hard for them to be straightforward about nutrient content because it depends a lot on what you start with to put in. The best test would be a direct comparison of the same exact scraps composted in two different ways, and you'd have to do this on a large scale to smooth over all the individual variability of nutrients in vegetables and the microbes that find it, etc.