Lomi 1.3 – 3L, Electric Composter (45 Cycles), World’s First Smart Waste That Turns Waste into Natural Fertilizer with a Single Button, Indoor Compost - Kitchen Food Recycler (White, Lomi 1.3)

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.

I found the instructions a little unclear so had initial trouble with running it. I couldn't tell which cycle it was on because of all the lights and how to push the button exactly right. So it didn't seem to be working! Now I've figured it out, I LOVE my Lomi! I so hated throwing out all organic stuff like coffee grounds etc but found it impossible in an apartment to get compost to work, even with Bokashi. So I'm thrilled to get lovely dry, clean compost now! I did get the pods to help with the process. The machine was fairly quiet, with occasional odd grunts, but I just shut the kitchen door and let it run all night without it disturbing us in the least. It was all done the next morning. So easy and SO satisfying!

This is an excellent addition to my kitchen! Pros: - It has really helped me feel better about reducing food waste and handling food scraps more easily. - I love that the compost stays dry, which makes it super simple to manage. - Even when old food goes in, there’s no odor at all. - It's pretty quiet— I can't hear it from the bedroom, but if you're nearby, you might need to turn up the TV. Cons: - While it's processing, there is a mild smell, which can be a bit noticeable in small spaces like apartments. I didn't notice this much until recently, as I usually run it in the evenings. User-Friendly: - It is SO easy. I just press the button and it goes for a few hours depending on what the compost needs. - Do NOT interrupt the cycle, because you cannot restart it from where it left off. Overall: The process is seamless, and I feel great knowing I'm reducing my environmental footprint. This review is a 4 star only because of the mild smell and the size of the product (it requires counter space consideration).

Great way to save your kitchen from bad smell and pest. The bottom teflon coating get scratched after sometimes use if you put hard things in it. But it won’t be a problem. You can always get some Teflon spray to fix it. Or just leave it with scratches metal surface if you are going to mix some soil into your compost. The soil will sand the teflon coating down eventually. For the eco express mode, I use it almost every day. And it cost about 0.5 kWh, which is about 0.13 dollars electricity in my area for each run. I will collect weekdays outcomes and run the soil grows mode on weekends with bacteria mixed. Then put the generated fertilizer soil into my plants. Works great. It saves me time for throw food trashes and make contributions for the environment. Photo 1 is the food waste. Photo 2 is the eco express mode outcome. Photo 3 is soil grows mode outcome.

Purchased 9.25. Now in January the cooling light is on. Followed on line instructions to resolve issue, no success. Despite being under warranty, Lomi has no accessible phone number and has not responded to 4 texts. Outraged at lack of customer care for this expensive item. Working fine until this point.

Very happy with it so far. We are only using the "grow" cycle so far, so we can use it in our garden. That cycle doesn't get as hot, though, so we did have to add extra enzymes and also run it through a second time to get the desired output. In fairness, I put cantaloupe rind and pineapple peel in there, along with celery and some thin mandarin orange peels; everything was in small pieces, but still pretty tough stuff. Going forward, I think I'll skip the pineapple peel for the garden and maybe save that for the higher temp cycle. Excellent, user-friendly machine and directions. I have it in a little cubby off the kitchen, so we don't even hear it running; it's pretty quiet, though, anyway. The "grow" cycle takes a long time...about 16-20 hours. The hotter cycles are much faster. It just depends on how you want to use the output.

I enjoy using my lomi electric composter. I use it a couple of times a week and it gives me great compost. I don't regret purchasing this.

I read the reviews and knew this is more of a food drier than an actual composter and I bought it anyway. It has been an ok purchase. It's good for food scraps that are plant based. It kind of stinks when you do meats. It's louder than I expected so I tend to run it overnight or when we are gone. It works pretty well but there was a learning curve. You really have to cut things up before they go in or it will gum up and not work. It looks good on the counter. I have a big kitchen so it doesn't really take up too much space. If the kitchen was smaller I probably wouldn't want it there. It's kind of heavy so you don't really want to move it around alot. The end product is ok. Definitely follow the instructions and mix to the right ratio. Otherwise you have a brick..that will mold. Side note my dogs go nuts if the dirt that is produced is near them so I have to make sure to use it in places they won't eat it. I get good use out of it , and I probably wouldn't buy it again or replace it.

great item

Good quality, easy to use, and great for if you live in the country and want compost but can't put it outside on your pile due to bears and coyotes. This was a great investment, also takes the hassle out of having a compost bin, we just fill it up as we go and keep the lid on, when its full we just switch it on over night. Its as good as your common sense when filling it. Lots of wet items produces steam, this is filtered and causes no problem, add things in moderation and you can't go wrong! My wife loves me more every time she uses it! Great gift for your environmentally conscious wife!

It was a bit daunting to have to adjust the bottom bolt but I did it and success. It does need a fair amount of dry stuff if you use the garden soil option like I do.

It's small and mighty! We've had it 5 days, 1 day in the box, one day to accumulate food waste and 3 days running! It's quiet. It produces compost, we are storing in a big bucket for the spring. Very happy with it.

Humanity had been promised salvation by this Lomi composter, a sleek, humming sarcophagus of synthetic hope. Its propaganda— ‘Zero-Waste’, promising pure, life-giving ‘soil’ from refuse. I was a true believer. I tended the Lomi religiously and fed it every scrap, every husk, every fiber of permitted organic matter, whispering prayers for the verdant yield I’d been promised to sustain my meager window-box garden. When the cycle finally completed, the unit announced the birth of the new world with a cheerful, synthesized chime. With heart pounding, I unlocked the heavy lid. The smell hit first—not the earthy musk of soil, but a cloying, fermented sweetness, like overripe desperation. Inside the chamber, there was no soil. There was only Gloom. It was a dark mulch coated in molasses-thick sludge, sticky, clinging stubbornly to the walls of the chamber. When I scooped a handful, it refused to crumble. It was soil only in the sense that it was organic matter that had ceased to be food. But I tested it on my plants anyway, but it was antithetical to life, preventing any exchange of air or moisture.The real failure became apparent the next morning. A black haze had materialized above the plants that were tested. Tiny, maddening fruit flies, drawn by the fermenting sweetness, swarming the sticky output and colonizing the plants. The salvation device had not created soil; it had created a pest magnet, turning a small, sterile kitchen into a breeding ground for annoyance. “It just needs one more cycle,” I muttered, so I pressed the button, demanding the engine break down the Gloom into something finer. So I used the longest cycle available. The machine whirred, struggling against the unnatural viscosity. Eventually, A deep, grinding crack echoed from the bowels of the machine. The paddle, the core mechanism designed to churn life from death, had simply broken. It wasn't wear or misuse; it was the failure of cheap soft metal molded into a critical component, A structural weak point. A design flaw. Almost intentionally weak. A small area where the paddle is threaded and bolts to the churning mechanism. Designed to endure for the warranty period and not a day longer. Alas, it broke much earlier. The great promise of the Zero-Waste—the future built on endless, cyclical regeneration—had been defeated by a piece of weak, brittle metal and a stubborn refusal to address the inherent, sticky failure of its output. And back to Amazon it goes, as it's fortunately within the return period.