Shalva: It's warm?
Lenny: What?
Shalva: What?
First of all, it smells good.
Lenny: Yes.
What does it smell like?
Shalva: Like Potpourri, fruity coffee potpourri?
Like it smells good.
Lenny: So I want to tell you about the new product from Vitamix; it's called the FoodCycler.
The FC-50 Vitamix FoodCycler.
Here's why you're going to love it...
Well, here's why we love it; you take food scraps, you put it in, it heats them up and
grinds them up and then cools them down and dehydrates them and turns it into compost.
So, instead of putting your compost in a bin and waiting two to five months, you put everything
in this little bucket, close the lid, press the button and in two to five hours, you get
this beautiful compost.
And I’m going back to psych 101 here; the FoodCycler gets you this variable interval
reinforcement.
And so, it's like a slot machine; you get hooked on the results of what you put in the
FoodCycler.
And so, every night, we empty our food scrap bucket into the FoodCycler, turn around, press
the button...
Actually our little guy, our toddler, that's kind of his thing.
He loves to do it, he looks forward to doing it, that's the last thing he does on his way
up to go to sleep and then you wake up in the morning and you open it up and it's like
"what did we get today?".
And when you put the cap on the night before, it's almost like when you're starting to make
a juice or some sort of blend and you're like "oh this is a good one, this one's got celery
in it, this one's got a couple onions.
Oh, a little bit of orange peel, some coffee grinds, this is gonna be a nice batch of food
cycle in the morning".
It's like - it's really fun.
The green living benefits are obvious, you don't have someone taking away your food scraps
which are water dense, putting them into a garbage truck that's powered by diesel fuel,
taking it to a facility, breaking it down, right?
It's food for your garden.
It's actually fun to share the love, we've brought to friend's house.
The friend's garden is like a special gift here's.
Some fresh delicious compost for your garden and it's really so easy to use.
Once you get it set up, there's a few pieces but you put everything in and you put the
top on you press the button and that's it.
And you can't screw it up.
You know, you compare that with other Vitamix products where it's like well, you got to
be really mindful of the ratio of the stuff that you put in there, loading order, maybe
you have to use a tamper...
No.
You know, as long as you don't overfill it, you're good.
And for what it does, it's pretty quiet.
I compare everything to blenders.
Well, the blenders are loud, I mean, they're spinning really fast, things are hitting all
over the place...
This thing is closer to like a dishwasher.
You know it's running, there's kind of like a low hum...
And an occasional kind of thunk...
It will not disturb a sleeping baby or a sleeping...
And it's super easy to clean; you can take the bin and put it in the dishwasher.
For a thing that doesn't have any comparable.
It's not like a blender where it's like "okay, there's other blenders out there" you know
what they do and the things they can do for you and you know the experience you get from
them and the value they can bring to your life.
This thing is a new thing, it's a gadget.
It's a tech thing but just FYI, these are things that we have been thinking about...
First thing, you should know that this thing is small, small compared to a refrigerator
and compared to a dishwasher.
Appliances that are always plugged in and do some pretty heavy lifting and are cubic,
right?
Square or rectangular, whatever.
And this thing only requires one cubic foot of space which is not a ton.
However, it's not small and it's not light.
You know, so it needs a permanent home with an outlet, a place to plug it in.
I know my sister has a newish kitchen and in that kitchen it has a stand for a kitchenaid,
that's like hiding inside of a cabinet.
Really cool.
So, it has that plug and it has a place for it to kind of pop up and pop down.
That would be a perfect place for this thing.
We have just kind of put ours on the floor next to our pantry and we thought that maybe
the garage would be a good place for it because well, that's maybe- [Chuckles] You want it
in the kitchen bu your food, that's where it needs to be.
Even though it comes with a top so that the bin can live in a cabinet and receive compost
and then you can just pick up the bin and put it right in the FoodCycler, so like technically
you don't really need another composting bin.
It doesn't really work in a practical sense, you still need a standalone compost bin.
You may produce more food scraps than the FoodCycler can handle in one cycle, so you
need another place to hold all that stuff.
We haven't really been able to figure out the transferring and the storing.
They said to store it in an airtight container, but like transferring from the bin to the
airtight container, it isn't the most seamless.
Something you're gonna think about and gonna need to figure out.
There is a little bit of on-going maintenance or on-going costs there associated with it.
There's a filter indication light that will pop on when you need to change the filter
so, you need to purchase those when you need to replace them.
You should know that.
On the box and on the website, it says that you can put in bones...
Small animal bones.
So, small chicken bones and small fish bones.
It can handle that stuff.
However, in the instructions, it says very explicitly, if there are animal products in
your dehydrated food waste, do not use that dehydrated food waste in soil for your garden.
"Do not incorporate any dehydrated food waste that contains animal protein.
For example, chicken bones, fish bones, etcetera into your soil".
Then it says it again "food with too high concentration of sodium like animal protein
could have a detrimental effect on the growth of plants".
And again, "Vitamix recommends that you do not incorporate any dehydrated food waste
into your soil that contains animal protein".
So, either, don't put bones in here if you want to use the dehydrated food waste in your
garden or make sure that if you do put bones in the in the FoodCycler that the dehydrated
food waste that you make doesn't go in your garden.
You may find yourself thinking "okay, I have a FoodCycler and look what I have...
This wonderful dehydrated food waste.
It's compost, right?" and then you start to do some research and then you start to think
"is the dehydrated food waste that comes from the FoodCycler, is that the same as compost
that I would make in a composter with greens and browns and over time and with heat and
with a little bit of water and worms?" and then you wonder "what do I do with all this
food waste?
And what do I do with it in the winter time?
When is the right time to put it down?
How much do I put down?
Do I have to mix it up?
Do I have to stir it around in the existing soil?
Will these particular plants like this dehydrated food waste?
What if my dehydrated food waste has some cantaloupe rinds in there?
And that's not native to where I’m living in the midwest and what if -".
Just so you know, that might happen.
I think you can come back to - despite all the instructions, "in most cases, depending
on your existing soil makeup," - so, two caveats, "using the dehydrated food waste as a soil
amendment will incorporate all necessary nutrients to promote plant growth."
which essentially means just dump it in.
Who might the FoodCycler be for?
The FoodCycler might be for you if you're looking for a fun way to deal with your food
waste and to reduce the food waste that you produce.
It might be for you if you compost today but want a easier and quicker way to actually
use the compost in your garden.
FoodCycler, FC-50 might be for you if you've always wanted to compost, but have been intimidated
by the big black drum and all the greens and the browns and all the instructions.
This makes it really easy.
This thing might not be for you if you don't have a place for it.
If you don't have a place that it can live and that is near an outlet.
And finally, the FoodCycler from Vitamix, the FC-50 might not be for you if you think
you're going to drive yourself crazy thinking about doing this perfectly and all the requirements
with composting and the soil and the composition of your dehydrated food waste and how to store
it, how to transfer it, what to do with it all.
If that's gonna drive you crazy, like it drove me crazy for a little bit, this thing might
not be for you.
But I really don't think that should hold you up, this thing is cool because from a
food waste perspective and from an overall carbon footprint perspective and from just
a gardens happiness and using the FoodCycler the best you can is better than not using
it at all.
Which is what we do.
This thing, the Vitamix FoodCycler, I think it falls into the category of the perfect
gift...
Gift to yourself or gift to someone else.
It's not something that you need that will make your life easier or make you healthier,
help you achieve your goals, your personal goals, but if you get it, or someone gets
it for you, you're gonna love it.
All you have to do is use one of our links to buy and look for our name at checkout,
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Shalva: Looks like coffee grounds...
That's so cool.
Can I actually feel it?
Lenny: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can you smell it a little?
Shalva: Let's see if my post Covid nose works.
It just smells fresh.
I just smell freshness.
Not, you know, like rotting or you know, like musty like compost does or anything.
I like it.
I’m not going to eat it but I like it.
And it got so small.
That's really nice.
It'll be easy to dump and stuff.
An easy dump.
Lenny: Right here.
Shalva: You made a compost?
Lenny: On the FoodCycler.
Shalva: Oh my gosh.
Unbelievable.
Lenny: Right?
Shalva: Oh my gosh!
Speaker 1: It smells good.
Shalva: That's amazing!
Speaker 1: Garbage.
Shalva: Let's see...
Oh my!
Speaker 1: That does that in like three to five hours instead of like months.
Shalva: I want it.
Speaker 1: But you can have it.
Shalva: Oh, we're gifting people compost.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it!
Shalva: We've been going to people's houses and being like "here's a jar of compost for
you".
Speaker 1: I love it!
Shalva: Yeah, that is so cool...
Lenny: Right?