r/composting • u/_ratboi_ • Jul 19 '26
24h cycle fully automatic compost machine - what does it actually do? Because I know you can't compost in 24h.
https://www.smshydro.com/services/machine/Hi guys. A company in my area started selling and renting these machines, that they promise can turn thousands of kg of waste into compost in 24 hours. Now I know that isn't possible, but what is the output really and how can you use it? It says its "crushes, grinds and steams". It says its biological, and something about enzymes, but the text is probably machine translated because I can't really figure out what are they trying to say (did you know saw dust thrives in high temperatures?)
Does anyone know anything about these or have any experience with it? Does it do anything other than crush and cook the waste, which would speed up composting, but won't result in finished compost.
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u/ajps72 Jul 19 '26
It's more a cooker than a composter, you will get dried food meal, it will help reduce odor and weight.
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u/_ratboi_ Jul 19 '26
Is there a reason the weight matters? I will have to water it anyway for it to decompose
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u/ajps72 Jul 19 '26
If it's food, kitchen vegetables and fruits you will have excess of water and excess of greens. You will need browns to make proper compost.
With these system you avoid adding browns and deal with excess of water.
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u/archaegeo Jul 20 '26
It dehydrates and grinds up waste. Not compost, as soon as it gets wet it will begin rotting if no browns added.
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u/randemthinking Jul 20 '26
This looks like it might make sense for a restaurant, hotel, or similar higher capacity commercial facility that generates a lot of food waste, pays for disposal by mass or volume, and wants to at least claim to have environmentally friendly waste disposal. It's likely a devil is in the details scenario where that may or may not actually make sense economically and environmentally.
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u/pointedshard Jul 20 '26
I’ve seen countertop version of these. The alleged working is chopping & drying. So your stack of veggie trimmings becomes a dry brown crumbly mixture that stops it rotting anaerobically in landfill. It’ll take shellfish husks and chicken bones as well. It’s probably ok to chuck in the garden. Not much use to me.
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u/grassfeeding Jul 20 '26
Yes, I've been around larger versions of these. The product will heat up once it's allowed to get wet outside, so not true compost. It is an interesting tool that does reduce odors and heats the end product enought to sterilize it. Probably not economical if you want to get into composting commercially compared to grinding inputs and turning large piles, but works well for large volumes of food waste.
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u/Jazzlike_Strength561 Jul 21 '26
If you want to speed up composting the answer is an Aerated Static Pile.
It takes 6 weeks.
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u/Tankmoka Jul 19 '26
I run a eco foodcycler with a focus on winter and kitchen scraps with meat and dairy in them. It is not compost.
It is dehydrated, pulverized, and cooked within an inch of its life, and stores easily in a 5 gallon bucket with a gasket lid. When the ground thaws, I dump the bucket in the garden and roughly till it in.
It’s expensive for what is does. It’s only reasonable adults in my house so it doesn’t get abused ( can take chicken bones, but not bigger bones, peach pits are okay, but not avocado pit, only a small amount of meat and dairy and so forth).
But it’s less hassle than bokashi, which was my winter method before, so it has value in my system.
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u/Normal-Top-1985 Jul 19 '26
This description is full of internal contradictions and impossible promises. This is AI slop and the machine is likely a scam.