I bought a Lomi based on this review and a couple of others. It does not make compost or dirt. It heats your food until its dehydrated and chops it into tiny pieces. It's chopped dehydrated food. And smells like cheese. So I put it in my worm bin and they can actually turn it into dirt.

Doesn't solve the winter problem so much, but you can get a compost tumbler for much cheaper. It makes it easy to turn it. And they're locking so no pests to make a mess of it. If you're savvy enough, you could add an electric motor and belt on a timer to auto rotate it occasionally. Since they're larger you can also add all your yard waste. The downside of course is that you need a lot of compost at once for it to be efficient, careful moisture monitoring, and they get too hot to add worms, so that would be a separate process after you've used it, but no different than the lomi. In fact, a lot of people will use a separate worm bin after the initial composting in the tumbler. The only advantage to the lomi is it can process small batches daily that you can add to a worm bin or directly on the ground. But the lomi doesn't really create true compost, mostly just dehydrated shredding. Not un-useful, but overpriced certainly.

24:31 Lomi: BUSTED! KZfaq · Thunderf00t 26 Jan 2022

Really cool product, great points!

Added several rotten tomatoes to my Lomi with some cut up tomato vine from trimming my hydroponic vine. Also had some shredded paper towels and some food leftovers. It locked up the Lomi, turned it into a charcoal like mass that took days 9f soaking to remove, scraped the coating of the chamber and burned up the motor since it could not turn with the solid "coal" mess. It's going to the dump now. Lomi states in the instructions not to add too much high sugar scraps like grapes or watermelon, I had none of those in my bucket. Another drawback is if you don't turn it on every day and close the lid to keep smell and fruit flies down you find mold growing on the inside of the lid and bucket. Understandable considering the moisture and food scrap combination in an enclosed environment. Still I wonder about getting those spores in my air when I open the lid. All together an expensive waste of money.

To call it a composter is misleading. It's a pre-compost.

Not compost. By definition, not compost. Grinder and dehydrator.

Cool to see this wasn't a wasted kickstarter for me, will definitely want to run it off solar

I wonder if you can crack open a lomi pod and use it to seed some sort of medium similar to a sour dough starter, keep in your fridge to feed and reuse repetitively?

I've been using mine for several weeks and love it. The finished product smells pleasant to me, almost like tobacco. I have not put in a lot of sloppy goop, I drain liquid from leftovers and rarely use the tablets.

This is misadvertised as a composter. The product is not going to provide immediate nutrients to your soil and when rehydrated through watering ot rain can be a stinky mess. We get through the winter by holding our household scraps in a frozen state to be composted when the weather warms. The Lomi is a crazy expensive way to just air dry and grind waste. I understand that people in apartments and condos are left out of the true composting opportunity, but gteen waste collection by cities or communities can fill this gap.

PUT IT IN THE BASEMENT 😅

There is a carbon filter in there. How often do you have to change that one?

Hi, What can you say about the filter?

Thanks for the review. I have had my eye on this for a while now, but was unsure about it. I look forward to your comparison video

I have a tumbler outside

This looks cool. I just ordered this hydroponic garden called the gardyn and I think this would kinda go hand in hand. Thanks for the review and maybe you’d like to review the Gardyn and or other indoor gardening systems. Sustainable, all year, fresh, I cant wait to get mine. I herd you can even grow strawberries. Ok thanks again. ✌️

How much did you guys get paid by Lomi?

You should check Geoff Lawton's composting method he's got it down to an 18-day start to finish. Also he has a method with chickens where they use chickens to do the composting and to fertilize it at the same time interesting method as well. Anybody interested in permaculture should definitely watch Geoff Lawton's permaculture videos. Amazing stuff, also he gives a very optimistic hopeful outlook on the future if humans start doing reparative work the planet can heal very quickly and we can have massive food abundance with just a few changes.

Can you add food throughout the day or just once a day? Seems having food sitting around for a once a day feed can get a smelly kitchen.

I’m curious about analysis of the result, durability and ease of cleaning. When l compost a lot of orange peels the Lomi is difficult to clean, l have to use dental floss or fine wire to clean under the blades and center post. I think build up will ultimately be the death of the Lomi. I’ve had mine about a year and l live by myself. This product would be greatly improved by allowing you to remove the blade assembly for cleaning.

you can compost meat in your back yard compost when its a hot compost.

IF something goes wrong with the machine there is no way to get it fixed.

For those interested in the science, may this playlist be helpful kzfaq.info/sun/PLNG_YQG6XtkXxCFHJCy2APfkxYJwsrRrj Don’t put the case in the machine, it is most likely not 100% “plant-based” and you will end adding micro plastic to your garden.

Looks pretty cool. I'm sure there's a market for it. I really like how fast it composts the food waste.

I won’t buy that expensive for dehydrated vegetables. My bokashi is more good and cheaper.

NOT DIRT

I got this instead of a new Xbox. I think I’m enjoying this more than I would’ve the Xbox.

Thanks, very intriguing product. Looking forward to comparison reviews.

just burry your waste in the soil directly is so much easier, cheaper and directly feed the SOM (Soil Organic Matter). Or do BSF Composting (Black Soldier Fly) ... unless you dont have space to do it then opt for simple composting like buy a pottery or stainless or wooden bucket or drum shape and just put layers of organic waste and soil (mind the composition of Green and Brown so that it'll more effective) .. be adventerous and make your own trials 🍊🍐🍎🍋 *look online for free tutorials

wait it composts PLA??? how has no one tried composting 3d printing waste in it? PLA is the most common 3d-printing filament and you can get a good amount of waste from support/brim material to failed prints. Being able to put some of that into each compost run would really reduce the amount of printing waste I'd have to throw away

I want more!

Also, a month of my time is worth more that the $4 I save... so dumb

Maybe type in "Lomi busted" in youtube search before you order.

Man that would be great. I live in Japan and I could use that for all my house plants.

I've seen reviews that say this is nothing but an overpriced bread maker.

JFC. That is not at all compost. It's dehydrated food waste that's been ground up. There is zero bacterial growth in that 24-hour period and all you did was increase your carbon footprint needlessly boiling off the water in the food waste.

Reskinned bread maker ✅

I wouldn't be billing either of you as anything but composting novices; before using the terms "compost" and "dirt," learn what compost and dirt are; vs. ground and dried food scraps.

Shilling a piece of crap from a horrible company.

This would help with rodent issues.

Where's the review this is just an advertisement you guys are so disingenuous

Uh, composting creates the same amount of methane as would be created in a landfill. And you make this huge assumption that a lot of people are composting. And at 400 - 500$ a pop, MANY ppl cant afford it. This review seems a bit unbalanced and incomplete

The anaerobic bs is so misleading. As soon as you put it in your garden, your screwed. Total bs