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| AdventureGirl |
Kitchen Waste Converter - Bokashi systemI am looking at buying one of these systems to take all the kitchen waste that I can't put in my normal compost bin.I found a thread from about a year ago, but no-one seemed to have tried it. Has anyone had any more experience of it now? For those of you unsure about what I am talking about see: http://www.bubblehouseworms.com/bokashi2.htm Also, anyone know where to get one cheap? The ones I have seen are around £55 for a kit containing 2 bins. If you are lucky and live in Cambridgeshire you can get subsidised kits for just £25!! Unfortunately not in Gloucestershire though. Cheers |
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| jocorless |
Talk about coincidence - I just ordered one of those systems from Wiggly Wigglers yesterday - I'll hoping it will do the same for me
I'll let you know how I get on |
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| Nick |
Re: Kitchen Waste Converter - Bokashi system
Perhaps you need to speak to some of the nice people on here from Cambridgeshire? And one of the nicer people who regularly drives between the two. 
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| Mrs Fiddlesticks |
We're thinking about one. Has it arrived Jo? | ||||
| jocorless |
Yes it has and I'm very impressed with it so far - very easy to use and comes with very informative instructions What it has shown me is that food wise we don't throw that much away - which pleases me greatly - the majority of our waste is stuff that goes straight in the compost bin The other thing I've done is bought some of these for the kitchen which although expensive are absolutely bloody fantastic - Nice and easy even for the kids to recycle into. Can't believe how much plastic we use though especially pop bottles and all of it due to laziness on my part was going into landfill - So we are returning back to using the Sodastream I've got languishing from this weekend and I'll buy the syrups for it instead of buying vast quantities of pop. |
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| Mrs Fiddlesticks |
thanx, that's helpful as we've been sent an offer from Wiggly Wigglers (for buying a wormery off them I think) that's money off one and we were wondering.
We've cut down our plastic bottle rate as the kids don't drink that sort of thing very often and we have a milkman so all juice type drinks come in glass bottles which we can rinse and hand back. I still think plastic is the main thing that goes in to the dustbin but some of it is just unavoidable. Although if we lived in the jurisdiction of the next council up we could put it in our recycling bin! 
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| cab |
Re: Kitchen Waste Converter - Bokashi system
*wakes up blinking* Subsidised, eh? I could quite fancy getting one of those, and it shouldn't be impossible to get someone else who doesn't need one to get one too... I'll investigate. |
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| cab |
Whereabouts did you find out about the cheaper offer for people in Cambs? Is it on that site? | ||||
| Mrs Fiddlesticks |
we've ordered one so I'll let you know how we get on. | ||||
| AdventureGirl |
Cab, I was going to post the link for the Cambridge offer, but when I just checked it out it says that the offer is now closed.
Sorry! Cheapest I have found the kit so far is just under £50 on evergreener.com |
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| Mrs Fiddlesticks |
it arrived today, looks simple enough. Off to rearrange under the sink to try and house it under there. | ||||
| Mrs Fiddlesticks |
have used it for a full week now and impressed. I think if you have kids who don't eat up all their tea then its a worthwhile thing. There's no smell and I think the main kitchen bin is much nicer overall.
As this is the latest item in our challenge to reduce our rubbish I was delighted to note that our dustbin this week was only half full (and some of that was packaging from youngests birthday presents and party)and it only really contained plastic that we couldn't do anything else with like bags that had had meat or fish in them or the birthday stuff. |
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| jocorless |
I'm of the same opinion - our rubbish sack has decreased remarkably with not throwing all this extra food out as well as the better recycling of plastics - There is no smell and despite me using it to put peelings in this week (could not be bothered to go down to the compost bin in the dark and rain)- it has taken a massive amount of food to fill the first one - I've still got a little room at the top for some more to go in over the weekend - Then we will move onto the 2nd bin and leave the first one to do its stuff. The liquid produced by this method can be used in the same way as worm compost liquor or can be poured straight down the plug as its full of beneficial organisms that will remove things like fat and gunk from your pipes without the use of bleach - Which I think is fantastic. Haven't drawn any liquid off yet - plan to do that tomorrow |
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| Solomon |
You get lots more liquid over time. You'll soon know that it needs draining by the smell, especially if you don't seal the lid properly. It's not strong, but there is an almost sweet/sour smell that comes off. | ||||
| Milo |
I'm a little puzzled as to why folks might have any leftovers of cooked food.
Are you cooking too much of it? If so, why not eat it tomorrow? And if you don't want to, why not put it into the compost bin anyway? Or is that because it's meaty food? |
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| Mrs Fiddlesticks |
some of its meaty food; you can put uncooked meat scraps in when trimming something for example I'm guessing your not a parent.... as to the rest. Judging a child's appetite from one day to the next isn't easy. Youngest doesn't always eat his pizza crusts for example - which I think is about all that got bunged in there yesterday. We don't have huge amounts of left over food, far from it, but it is odd little things you can't put in a compost bin ordinarily. I do use leftovers up but you know there is little call for say, one left over roast potato! |
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| jocorless |
Ditto for me |
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| ros |
bird food? pizza crusts, roast pots,l rice pasta etc in this house go on the bird table.
they don't like chips with ketchup on them though! |
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| jocorless |
When you have 3 cats who like catching birds - providing them with a birdtable doesn't seem to be such a good idea |
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| Milo |
My son's 27 which might explain why my memory's fading? His son's 14mths and eats EVERYTHING! I twice tried to run a wormery, but just couldn't get it to work properly. |
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| Simon |
Am I correct in thinking Milo, You do not have young children? 
Oh yes, I see now you have already answered that one.  We have hens which seem to deal with our leftovers OK.
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| Earth Mutha with attitude |
I was looking at this website the other week - I think it's for a similar thing, it's called a green cone and it does the job on bones and other meat products, cooked food etc...
 there seemed to be special offers for a lot of areas in the uk - well worth taking a look!
 - sadly not my area, but i am going to see if I can persuade in-laws to get one from Aberdeenshire area for me.... I would prefer to have a couple of pigs though - ah, one day we will live in a more suitable house / garden!
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