LOMI World's First Smart Waste Kitchen Composter | Turn Waste to Compost with a Single Button with Electric Countertop Compost Bin by Pela Earth

The best. Thank you

Excellent machine.Works quickly in a short period of time.

Love it, compacts like 4 food bins worth in to less than mass of one. However it does take a long time. Also smells bad and can’t keep it in house. Ideal for garage. Avoid if indoors.

After looking into the product all it does it dehydrates the food? It would be much cheaper to just buy a dehydrator or put the waste into an airfryer? It said it would produce good compost but after reading how it doesn’t meet the threshold to even be classed as compost, it’s mis selling. Compost needs to be moist or all of the soil life that is needed in order to help plants grow died, it literally kills everything you need to make good compost? The machine is pretty pointless. It’s just taking advantage of people’s lack of knowledge and green washing as far as I can see. They should be more truthful so it is clear what you are really buying, which is as above a really over priced dehydrator.

Bought as a gift for my daughter, there is a constant smell when in use

First Impressions from a product engineer: - I had never heard of this technology so I was immediately fascinated by it - a way to help my immediate environment - Nice looking unit - Would be better if it was narrow fronted and deep as opposed to wide and shallow. Takes up more horizontal counter space the way it is - You have a live hinge on the back of the unit but wing nuts on the activated charcoal holder (back one). Design out the wing nuts, too small for many hands and easy to drop/lose - Initial setup - the bags of activated charcoal are too much for both holders so should be zip lock or just mention pour it into the back container and then the top one. It reads like one bag should go in the back and one bag should go in the top. Better yet just supply the charcoal in bags that fit the containers they go in - The manual says to unplug the unit to pull out the basket - this is very inconvenient. You should have a switch to prevent inadvertent operation with the lid off (if its not there) allowing the power to be plugged in while you are filling it. Actually I just ignore turning it off, it beeps at you when you pull the top off but that is fine. Now that I have used it for a few weeks: - Makes very nice organic laden dirt. I am not terribly scientific about what goes in, but what comes out looks good and my plants so far have liked it. - It's a bit louder than my dishwasher at about 55dBA, so I start it before I leave for work. It is not bad, I just have an incredibly quiet house so it is loud in comparison to other devices - it is nice to be able to clean the composting chamber in the dishwasher but the lid you cannot - it is not sealed and fills up with water. - you do have to slide it out from underneath the counter in order to pull out the basket or put larger amounts of waste in it, a slightly smaller chamber that is shorter or the chamber being in the front rather than the side would have improved loading. - My kitchen trash can no longer smells, and the Lomi does not either (unless you pull the lid off without processing the garbage) It's a keeper, and while it takes up a little more counter space than I would have liked, it does exactly what it is supposed to do and does it well. it appears to be well engineered and well made, so I hope future models take into account user's comments and suggestions.

great item

Turns food waste into compost in hours Very cool

I held off on buying this because it seemed expensive, but I finally broke down and got the Lomi and am so glad I did! It makes compost efficiently, and there's no smell at all. I've thrown kitchen scraps like fruit skins, lettuce scraps, egg shells, and some expired (and buggy) pasta, and it reduced it all down to lovely compost in a surprisingly short time. It does have a sound, but it's not obnoxious or loud. Being able to get these scraps broken down quickly helps keep the kitchen smelling clean, and I'm able to use the compost in my garden immediately. So great!

We’ve had this for a couple of months now and it seems to be doing its job. It doesn’t actually create proper compost, but if you use the eco setting, the compost produced just requires a few weeks of curing before you can use it for your plants. I supplemented this with a small spinning compost bin outside. One piece of advice I have is to keep your charcoal pellets up-to-date because this thing can reek if you don’t replace them regularly. Mind you, once you have them in place you really don’t smell anything at all. It’s bulkier than I thought it would be so make sure you have a good space for it. We use it because we live in the city and we don’t really have an easy way to create a compost bed. If we were to throw all of our compostable items in our small bin outside, it would be filled up very quickly. By using this to shrink, breakdown and dehydrate our compostable waste, we cut down on the landfill, have much lighter garbage to carry out and can use the cured final product in our patio garden and the tree wells in the neighborhood. If you actually have a yard where you can create a compost bed, I recommend that you do that and not pay for this expensive machine and the electricity involved.