Have you recently started a compost bin but find that its an annoying chore to constantly bring your kitchen scraps out to it? What good is a compost bin outside when most of the stuff that you want to put into it is in your kitchen? If you want to collect kitchen scraps for your compost bin you should really own a compost crock.
A compost crock looks like a cookie jar but instead of storing cookies in it, you store garbage. Put your used coffee grinds, eggshells, vegetable peelings or fruit rinds in there for safekeeping. When its filled up, then you bring it out to your compost bin. What could be easier? Now theres no need to walk outside every time you make a cup of coffee or peel a carrot. Just pop the waste into your kitchen compost crock and you can take it outside another time.
Now you may be thinking that it sounds pretty gross to store this waste in your kitchen. Well dont worry about smells because you can get a compost crock with a filter built right into the lid. With a carbon filter eliminating the odors, you wont even know its in your kitchen.
Kitchen composters come in either stainless steel or ceramic versions so choose one that best fits the dcor of your kitchen. Now just because you can save your organic waste in a kitchen crock doesnt mean that its okay to get lazy and never empty the contents into your compost bin. Now that would be gross. Depending on the size of your family you will probably have to empty it at least once a week. I suggest owning two compost crocks.
After you empty your indoor composter, its a good idea to rinse it out. A quick blast from the hose while youre outside is fine or you can clean it back in your kitchen sink. Every once in a while you may want to give it a thorough cleaning in the dishwasher.
Stop throwing away those banana peels, tea bags and anything else that could be used in your compost bin to make an terrific organic fertilizer. Its almost like throwing out money. A compost crock will make saving these items more convenient and that will make composting more convenient too.
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