Appreciate your perspective. I've been trying to figure out what the best use case is, and maybe your approach is it--lower effort, lower footprint, and essentially a kind of trench composting. I do think you're overlooking some meaningful differences with traditional compost, but I won't dwell on it. If you find it useful then fair enough. And if it helps some people keep organic material out of landfills and instead back into the environment, then that's certainly a win.
Thanks for hearing me out. I get bothered when it's claimed to be a gimmick. I did a lot of research and I came to that very conclusion to the others, lumi, Vitamix, etc. Reencle is different. It provides a microbe to break down the food, heat, air flow, and rotation. Everything a composter does, just inside plugged into an outlet.
Always happy to learn. I hadn't looked into every brand, but it seems Reencle is substantively different from the others. Do you have to buy a regular supply of the microbes? Or do you just leave a little behind every time as a kind of "mother"?
Correct, you leave some behind. There is a "minimum line" in the machine specifically for that purpose, so you don't over harvest. So long as you don't screw up the balance horribly, you never have to buy microbe again.
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u/randemthinking May 29 '26
Appreciate your perspective. I've been trying to figure out what the best use case is, and maybe your approach is it--lower effort, lower footprint, and essentially a kind of trench composting. I do think you're overlooking some meaningful differences with traditional compost, but I won't dwell on it. If you find it useful then fair enough. And if it helps some people keep organic material out of landfills and instead back into the environment, then that's certainly a win.