Lomi Blends - All-in-One Lawn and Garden Solution - All-Natural Multi-Vitamin for Healthy Soil, Safe for Kids and Pets, Easy to Use - Sustainable Gardening

I bought this for my mom as she wanted it. I wasn’t sold on the idea until I saw what it can do. This thing takes anything and makes it into perfect, dry compost. Parents throw everything into this and it doesn’t have an issue. Quiet and not too big. I’m impressed.

Never have to have a oder from the trash.

Works great with my Lomi , work to break down food waste and add nutrition to my garden

I find I'm using this more and more. What I'm doing with my scraps might be the difference between my use and that of other users. I don't put them in the machine right away. I stick them in a plate by my window so that the morning sun will dry the food out before its placed in the lomi. I started doing that after I opened the lid and saw that not everything had turned to dirt. Now it does. If you don't have the lid completely closed, you might notice a smell when you're using it. Be sure that the lid is tightly closed on all sides. Not closed on one and lifted ever so slightly on the other side. The other day I was cleaning my lomi, and there's a part that's removable (the part that spits out the dirt) that you can take apart and the dishwasher really cleans it up nicely. So I'd taken it part and put the two pieces of that particular part in the dishwasher. Unfortunately, during that cycle, the sealing gasket (which I'd forgotten to remove) came off so when I opened the dishwasher there were three pieces instead of two. I tried unsuccessfully to try getting it back together, and then called amazon to see if I could get a replacement part for that little gasket. Lomi didn't give them an option to replace that part, so they initiated a return and were going to send me a new one. After we got off the phone, I tried again to replace it and this time it worked! I've used it successfully twice since then. I have some gaskets on order now to take care of the issue if it ever arises again. ($5.99 for 6 gasket seals). So I cancelled the return. Thanks Amazon, you've been great thruout. Didn't want to have to return it!!!Footnote: I initiated another return and thankfully I was able to cancel that one as well. The reason for the initiation? When plugged in, the Lomi wouldn't start after I pushed the button. The button wouldn't even turn it on. The customer service never made any suggestions other than to return it. When I started to take it apart to put it in a box, I found that the cord that plugs into the wall, also plugs into the lomi. I'd forgotten about that. It had worked itself out of the lomi when I turned the lomi a little bit. After I plugged it back into the lomi, it worked! Again, saving the hassle of the return. The reason for my posting that bit of information is so that if your lomi doesn't work, you check both ends of the cord to see they're both plugged in.

It weighs 30 pounds! The lid is virtually impossible to get off, requiring both arms to be around the unit. It is massive and does not fit on anyone’s kitchen counter, and it cannot go underneath cupboards because of the amount of steam it emits during its process. I put it in my large pantry and closed the door and the entire room was full of steam an hour later. It stinks when it operates. Smells like burning plastic and detergent. When the cycle was finished, all of the waste was turned into a green plastic like substance, which was hardened and lodged under all of the blades, making it next to impossible to clean. I soaked it for 12 hours and still could not dislodge the hard plastic substance from beneath the blades. What a great concept but terrible execution, this product is awful.