Best kitchen componster (2025), tested and checked

The kitchen worktop Composter is a nice vision. Instead of a stinking bucket with vegetable stations and coffee that breed fruit flies on your counter or rats in your garden, you can insert everything into a refined electrical device, and in the future you will have a rich supply of nutrient -rich compost in the future, which you can use in your garden.

Unfortunately, none of the most popular electrical machines do this on the market. Although some of these devices are marketed as “composers” and describe instruction booklet and apps about the way in which compost can be used, the vast majority of kitchen composers will simply grind and dry their food waste. Your waste performance is greatly reduced and no longer smells, but if you hope you put out egg shells and banana shells in a machine and the type of true compost that you would buy in the garden center magically, this will simply not happen.

That means you may Mix small quantities of these reasons in very small conditions in the soil in the potting soil or use them as a feeder for a “real” compost heap, but most of these machines are intended for those who want to reduce the volume of food waste that produces their household. This is a legitimate in and of itself 24 percent From municipal fixed waste that leads to the release of Methan, a destructive greenhouse gasas it collapses at the landfill.

Or you want your food site to be odorless and shelf -stable before adding it to your green waste container for municipal composting or your back yard compost. In any case despite the critics of the critics of Greenwashing And Companies -AtroturfingThere is still value for these devices. They make people more aware of their food waste. You don’t use as much strength as you think that you would do it (about 1 kilowatt hours was typical). And our top election, the Reencle Prime ((8/10, Wired recommends), even produces something close Compost.

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How I tested

I am the Senior Commerce editor of WIRED, who is responsible for house and kitchen appliances, and have checked products for our equipment department In the past 10 months. I cook every day for my family of three and have processed our kitchen remains in these componsters in my home kitchen since summer 2024. Each was tested at least four weeks and in several cases for six weeks or more under typical household use. I tested all the cycles offered and with all types of food that are permitted in accordance with the manual, and in the case of Reencle and Mühle even tried to use the finished product in my farm and in my houseplants (on different effects).

Best overall

As already mentioned, none of these machines really makes it ready for use, but that Reencle Prime ((8/10, Wired recommends) comes closest to a traditional compost tank. Popular in South Korea Years before it appeared in the United States, the Reencle arrives with a Reclemicrobe starter bag (which can be bought separately for $ 65) contains activated carbon, wood pellets, glucose and a trio patented microbes that are for severance payments. There is also a pre -filled carbon filter that hits its back.

At 14 x 15 x 22 inches, the Prime is too big for a kitchen slope, but it works comfortably like heated garbage. The lid can be opened via the sensor below or a button on the control panel and goes to your organic substance. That’s it. There are no cycles, tablets or auxiliary shovels that you have to worry about. The app is also completely optional. Depending on the object, the waste is divided into a material within a few hours to days.