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So.....what exactly can I put in my lovely new Bokashi bin?

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liath · 14/02/2009 22:56

I'm panicking now becuase I put in a boiled chicken carcass in yestarday after making stock and DH reckons I can't put bones in it!

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Smallholder · 15/02/2009 19:13

Hmm - opinion is divided on this one. Some sites say bones are OK as they contain a lot of nutriments. Others say no bones. Not much help, am I?
I guess it's 50/50. I would wait and see. I certainly wouldn't panic. If the bones are still there after a couple of months, fish them out and put them in your household bin. If they're not, well, they're probably OK in Bokashi - job done

WowOoo · 15/02/2009 19:15

I personally would not want to put bones in it. Just seems wrong.

brimfull · 15/02/2009 19:16

I have no clue what a bokashi bin is...was waiting for a link to a super trendy bin.

Smallholder · 15/02/2009 19:35

ggirl - not sure if it's trendy, but here's the link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokashi_composting

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liath · 15/02/2009 20:59

I took the chicken bones out. Dh started laughing at me and asked me if i really thought bones would decompose when Tony Robinson was making a career of digging ancient ones up .

ggirl, I'm not sure if trendy is the word .

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cmotdibbler · 15/02/2009 21:05

Bones are fine. Your DH will note that the time to disintegrate is very dependant on the conditions in which the bones are. As the bacteria generate acid, the minerals are leached out very quickly.

I love my bokashi bins - no food waste at all goes into our landfill bin and we never have any smells

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liath · 15/02/2009 21:06

I must say I'm very impressed so far by the lack of smell.

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Pruners · 15/02/2009 21:11

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liath · 15/02/2009 21:16

Cheers, Pruners. We do have a particularly stinky urban fox that patrols the neighbourhood so I'll steer clear of bones. .

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cmotdibbler · 15/02/2009 21:23

We stick ours in the compost bin, so thats not a problem for us.

I'd be suprised if they could smell the bones over the other smells in the compost though

Smallholder · 15/02/2009 22:04

liath - hehe - not sure if they make big enough bokashi bins for disposing of the dismembered remains of my MIL (Can't imagine how she could have ended up in that dismembered state - who on earth would want to do that?) - OMG - sounds like a tabloid headline - should I flee the country?.

Scrumplet · 08/03/2009 20:33

liath.

Don't know about chicken bones, but I heard fish bones are OK.

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