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Breville the FoodCycler Food Disposer $158 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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47% off RRP apparently.

The Breville FoodCycler is the fast and easy alternative to composting—it automatically dries, grinds, and cools food scraps into odourless EcoChips for easy disposal, at the touch of a button
REDUCE FOOD WASTE BY 80%: The 2L grinding bucket reduces your food waste into just 0.34L of sterile and odourless EcoChips, to be easily disposed of or used in the garden
RECYCLABLE ECOFILTERS: Carbon filtration system with recyclable filters removes odours and destructive methane gasses during the cycle. Filters last approximately 500 cycles, and the machine indicates when it's time to change them
NO ODOURS: Unlike traditional composting, the carbon filter bucket lid with activated carbon foam lid-liner reduces odours, so you can happily store food waste at room temperature until you’re ready to start your next cycle
EASY CLEANUP: The removable porcelain coated bucket is durable and dishwasher safe, for easy cleaning
QUIET OPERATION AND EASY STORAGE: Designed to easily fit on your countetop, the Breville FoodCycler is as compact as it is quiet—it's no louder than a dishwasher
LOW ENERGY USAGE: Sophisticated sensor technology defines each individual cycle to use minimal energy with maximum efficiency
POWER: 500 watts; Voltage: 220-240

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  • +10

    How much power do these use? Is that really so environment-friendly?

    • POWER: 500 watts

    • +3

      If you got solar and your grid already has too much solar when you use it, then yes.

      • Unless you have a battery system with your solar

        • +7

          Man you need a degree just to figure out if something is environmentally good or not.

          • +4

            @AustriaBargain: Yep totally agree. My flat mate and I were just discussing what packaging now goes into the recycling bin… soft plastics? Why can a 1.25 Ltr coke bottle get 10 cents but not a 2ltr milk bottle? why are we collecting plastic bread ties in a bowl in my kitchen ffs? Wait I just found out why we collect bread ties:
            (https://ozbreadtagsforwheelchairs.org.au/)

            • +2

              @J B S: Pretty sure the reason why you get 10c back for a soft drink bottle, but not a milk bottle is because the milk processors aren't forced to participate in the deposit scheme and pass the costs onto the consumer.

      • +5

        I bet even with solars you need to use this Breville device for, like, 70 years to offset its manufacturing etc.

        Even the line "REDUCE FOOD WASTE BY 80%" indicates marketing BS, so someone buys it and feels better reducing "their food waste" while all they do is wasting more energy to compress the volume of their - unchanged - food waste.

        • -7

          to offset its manufacturing

          Same with the Toyota Prius

        • +3

          It is a option though mainly for apartments but agree if you got the space for compost that’s a lot better as you are also building microbiome whereas this is a bit debatable about the exact compostable benefits plus the environmental impact of manufacturing

          However if you are in Sydney and haven’t had your garbage collected for 4 weeks in the middle of a heatwave it pays for itself.

          https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/fury-as-sydne…

  • +13

    This got a lot of heat when it was first posted here, so I didn't post it yesterday when it was $149 at Amazon. I was looking because Brisbane City Council is offering up to $200 rebate on food waste dehydrators, among other things, so it's basically free with the rebate. I tried to convince my other half to just stick to compost and worms but she wanted to try it, despite the Choice review and it getting a Shonky award. Will make an $8 profit with cash rewards too. We'll be using it on solar only so hopefully don't use extra power.

    • How can you see the eligible models for the council rebate?

      • +2

        That's the neat part, you don't.

  • +2

    Just put food scraps into your green bin?

    • Yeah, council should have industrial composter for green waste. You'd think so anyway.

    • +2

      Alot of places here in nsw dont have green compost bins.

      Fun fact: our landfill used to be green lids, now theyre red

  • +2

    Doesn’t the electricity it use offset the food scrap it saves? 😅

  • +6

    Use chooks

    • They eat everything!

    • +4

      Chooks with their dainty little feathered wings are absolute shit at recycling food scraps, they don't even know which night to put the recycling bin out. Don't ask me how but I know.

  • +3

    Composting worms are much easier, more reliable, don't use electricity, don't require something to be manufactured other than the bin.

    • +4

      Plus you can eat the fattened up worms, yum, full of protein! Can't wait when our loving governments will make a grater push towards insect dieting! 🥰

      Future is bright for humanity!

      • +2

        "Soylent Green!"

        • +1

          as long as you weed out the lib voters first, they dont just sound bitter, they taste it too

      • like for cheese?

    • +1

      Don't get me started on worms, they are just as bad a chooks.

  • -7

    put it next to your air purifier and have the full line up of stupid products that shouldnt exist but people think make a difference

    • +10

      Asthmatics started to breath heavily with this sentence xP

    • +1

      *air fryer

    • +2

      Dumbest comment ever. Next you'll suggest filtering silicon dust and bush fire smoke so they don't get into your lungs is a waste of time.

      • -7

        theyve banned silicone dust causing stone (and you could just avoid it before that) and like everyone else you could just take the usual bushfire advice and remain indoors with doors and windows closed, like everyone else does…maybe put a wet towel at door base if youre really sensitive

        or you could go buy a gadget that further draws power from a grid already at crisis and whose filters you'll get bled for every 6 months because a little LED says its doing you favours…it wouldnt be lying to you, surely

        youre aware that for millennia, man didnt have air purifiers, and yet here we are still

        • +4

          Silicone dust causing stone hasn't been banned (they?). Importation of new artificial stone is being banned but there's plenty of it in use and working with many other substances can cause silicosis. Dental technicians for example. And there is a solution to prevent it - it's called filtration.
          Millennia - what was life expectancy in 1800?
          You think Australian building standards will prevent smoke and particulates coming into your house with or without a wet towel? Look up number of respiratory illnesses and deaths due to smoke and particulate inhalation post bush fires if you're interested. Number of chronic illnesses developed due to particulate inhalation. If you want to suck up pollution go for it. Many don't.

    • +3

      Depending on where you live (and the air quality), or if you have asthmatics in the house, air purifiers with HEPA filters do make a difference.

  • +5

    Please don't fall for marketing gimmick. Despite being on sale, the company will make money out of filters and lids that needs to be replaced often. These type of unnecessary items are "crimes against nature" Breville FoodCycler

  • +3

    What do we do with the ecochips? Eat them with milk for breakfast then the BS cycle is complete. The Brisbane City Council and others created the food scrap problem with all these apartments and high density living, so they conn you in with a rebate and get you to pay for the energy to fix up the problem.

    • +1

      @ocular:Ecochip is actually a garnish. As it is reduced to 80 percent of its weight, it holds back all of the vegetable protein in it. It is a protein power house. You basically add on top of your favourite cereal with milk or gourmet yogurt(BS) Hahahaha!!!

    • +1

      High density living is not a new concept. Have you been to Paris?

  • +2

    Neighbour's dog is cheaper

  • +1

    Anyone tried using this without replacing the filters to reduce running costs? Wondering if and how bad the smell is.

    There are certain things which are hard to compost like bones, citrus, onions, dairy etc which this may have a use for. Not sure if the reduction in methane by not sending it to landfill is anywhere close to balancing the cost to produce and run the machine

  • +2

    This won a Choice Shonky award in 2021; https://www.choice.com.au/shonky-awards/hall-of-shame/shonky…

    Avoid.

  • For all the negative comments, the Amazon reviews seem pretty positive – looks like it has its niche use case

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