The Mill Food Recycler Is Worth the Hype

"As someone who cooks at home a lot and therefore generates a fair amount of scraps, bones, and used-up coffee grounds, I've experimented with an endless variety of ways to keep my household's food waste in check. Countertop bins, bags kept in the freezer, and five-gallon buckets under the sink all started well enough, but became smelly and annoying to deal with after a few weeks."

"It can handle meat, dairy, and even bones in addition to produce scraps, which means I have to do approximately zero thinking or sorting before I dump the remnants of my cutting board in there. It's quiet, unobtrusive, and set to make short work of my household scraps on an automatic schedule-so it never starts to smell. I can go about a month without having to empty it, which is the reason I've been able to use it consistently for so long."

The Mill is a trash-can-sized food recycler that accepts meat, dairy, bones, produce scraps, and other household organics without sorting. It heats and grinds discarded organics in an overnight cycle, reducing solid food volume by about 80%. The machine can process almost up to 40 lbs of material, producing a loamy mixture that smells faintly sweet and earthy rather than foul. The device runs on an automatic schedule, remains quiet and unobtrusive, and can keep monthly emptying intervals for typical household use. The reduced volume eliminates bulky countertop composters and frozen scrap bags, simplifying household waste handling.

Read at Bon Appetit