Review and Demo of the Vitamix Foodcycler 

These food scrap machines are cool for having a way to convert food waste to a non-smelly dried product but they are not really composters that create fertilizer with nutrients that plants can immediately access. Essentially they are scrap driers and grinders. You can store up the dried product in a dry place but to compost you will need to put through a regular composting system or worm bin. If you do a worm bin make sure it is well ventilated otherwise the worms can die from a lack of oxygen when your dried food scrap is reconstituted and starts to produce large amounts of CO2.

All of the wasted food on your table broke my heart a little, but thank you for making a video about this machine. 💙

I wonder how much electricity from coal plants this machine uses to "Dry' compost that will need to be rewet later to restart the decomposition.

Eh, I toss meat scraps in there, too. The FC turns them into hard jerky bits. All of it goes into my worm bin with a good sprinkling of water and some loose coconut coir as bedding to keep everything aerobic. The worms quickly digest the plant matter while the earwigs, fungi, and bacteria rapidly break down the rest. It's a pretty complete decomposition, all things considered.

Just bought this, can't wait. Food scraps are a pain to get rid of, we keep a large rotating bin in the yard. It takes months to reduce waste. This will do it overnight, and I can toss the product into my raised beds. Love my Vitamix blender, they make quality products.

It's a dehydrator with a grinder. I'm pretty sure composting is more than just drying things up and cutting it up

Good video - thanks 4-8 hours, i'd love to know how much electricity this uses. Cool concept but in terms of carbon foot print, i think it defeats the purpose if it uses hydro for several hours.

Mine just came in and I’m more than excited to start the process. Thanks for you simple and clear video. So many of them are way longer than I have time for. Yours was nice, easy, and to the point! ❤️

Thank you for this video. I am just wondering why you did not put the coffee filter into the food cycler?

Can the compost then run through a worm bin? Thinking it could super charge my worms and get finished worm compost very quickly?

How long before you have to change the filter

My wife has one and its very expensive and problem prone. The first one died and Vitamix replaced it. Then the bucket part locked up and my wife had buy a new one. Support on that last problem was sub par. I don't recommend the Vitamix Foodcycler.

When you drop in fruit with the seeds, does the heat kill the growth of those seeds? I wouldn’t want a fruit tree seedling sprouting up in my garden. Also, doesn’t the heat kill the nutrients and good bacteria in the food being composted?

the idea seems great but mine broke fairly quickly. still can't figure out how to get it repaired. expensive failed experiment. :(

Is there any benefit of doing this rather than dehydrating and blending your food scraps? I always have those two tools

Great review, thank you!

It's over priced but I still want one 😂🤣😂

This is a game changer because my traditional compost always draws ants! I would put this in the mud room or garage where we wouldn’t have to hear the noise.

That’s not compost. That’s food particles broken into bits. If you add it to your garden it will steel nitrogen from your solid in order for it to decompose. The bits added to a compost heap will decompose much more quickly because of the increased surface are the microbes have to work on so it good in that way, but you’d need to add back the moisture as the microbes need some moisture as well as oxygen so your gonna need to stir/ flip the pile at times. But then you can just get an old blender to break up all your food scraps before you add to the compost pile so the heating part is useless and a waste of energy. You could add this on top of your garden soil as a mulch but I’d worry as you start watering it or rain etc that you’d start to get odours. So I’d say to pass on this product.

Wait, it can handle... blackberries?!?

Thanks for reviewing this! I'm really intrigued!

Bagel?

Good video, but that is not compost. It’s dehydrated ground up organic matter you can add to your compost.

I find your choice of not bothering to clean it out before you made a video very interesting, and all it is is a dehydrator with a grinder. What's the big deal?

Available in India?

I really want one, but cannot get one in the uk 😢

Faster meal preparation and after meal cleanups!!!

I wonder if all the raw materials used to manufacture these devices (metals, plastics, electronics), package them (plastic wrap, cardboard, ink) and ship them around the world (gasoline, diesel) are really worth it, only to have them eventually end up in a landfill themselves? I doubt it.

It's a scam. The "rapid composter" has a decent history as a failed product, by the very nature of what it does. Thunderf00t debunked Lomi, a very similar "rapid composter" recently: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bXZG-kzlhPY.html And he mentions the FoodCycler later on in his video. Basically there's not much you can do when it comes to composting in 24 hours, because no microorganism ever can work that fast. All you can really do in 24 hours is desiccate and grind, which turns out to be one of the most energy-intensive things you could do to your waste.

its 100% edible leftovers going into the Vitamix food cycler. as long as you don't put rotten food or carbohydrates in it will the end results be edible and healthy for diabetic people?

Love my Vitamix but smh

Quite noisy and very small capacity .

you have way too much "food scraps"

NASA stuff..

$400 is pricy

Wow! Really wasteful to throw away half of a bagel with cream cheese, strawberries, and blackberries. Like, can't you feed that to your dog or eat it yourself? What a waste of money and electricity. Use the Vitamix to grind up fresh produce scraps and pour the liquid mess into a pot (with drain holes) with soil, PUT OUTSIDE, let sit a few weeks, occasionally stirring it. Save your money and your electric bill.

what i con than thing is how much does it cost in electric to produce a small amount of stuff for your soil it would not take of in the uk we are smarter than you lot we would not waste our money

what a gimmick

You guys waste a lot of food you should be eating. LoL thought it's meant for scraps not just uneven food

Looks like an overpriced food dehydrator/blender.

The guy in the video sure throws out a lot of perfectly good food. Hopefully that food was just being used to demo the unit and he does not throw out good food like that normally.