Lomi 1 Bundle – 3L, Electric Composter (90 Cycles), World’s First Smart Waste Kitchen Bin That Turns Waste into Natural Fertilizer with a Single Button, Indoor Compost Bin

Initially I rated this item 1. However, after using it again, I found out that id does what it says to a great extent. The main weakness of this item is the capacity. It doesn't hold much. For a small family it is fine but for a big family it maybe small. In any case, the outcome is good.

Great product thank you !

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.

The best. Thank you

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!

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.