Tell me about your food waste caddy

[QuimReaper]

I absolutely detest and despise my mum's, it seems really grim, but MIL is getting us a fancy garden composter so it looks like I'm going the way of the food waste caddy.

I'd like something that looks reasonably attractive, that the cats can't break into, and which doesn't stink.

Any recommendations?

A waste disposal unit.

We have one mounted on the wall. I hate it.
DH stuck it up while I was out.
It is with out other bin so handy in that respect. Brabantia(?) lidded and probably only holds 2/3 days worth so doesn't smell.

BEHOLD the Lakeland caddies of wonder. We had one a bit like the ones at the top of the page, but have gone basic - paper caddy liner by the sink, when 3/4 full into main caddy. Any caddy is another thing to clean.

I have a pull out bin with 2 sections one of which I use a compostable liner in and holds the food waste. Out of sight, not on a work surface and dog/cat proof.

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No such thing in this house!!

We just don't do it. We found no way without stink and we have enough other bins to think about.

Mother if only we had a unit I could repurpose I'd love that!

I'm liking the Lakeland one, it'll suit the kitchen - does it take liners though?

Mine is a former Halloween treat (I think nestle) tub it sits in the cupboard beside the bin so no-one sees it. It’s smaller than the caddies the council delivered which I like because it gets emptied more often and doesn’t sit composting in the kitchen.

Could you put yours in a cupboard OP?

Ours are given to us and recycled
by the council in this area (but we have to buy the bags). It's just a mini plastic bin. I keep it in my bin cupboard with my regular bin and empty it every second day or the same day of there are stinky leftovers not just teabags and bits of salad etc.

Phelan I've been trying to work out if it could go under the sink but I don't think it could. I might manage to free up some space under the island, but the "utility" side of the kitchen only has one cupboard under the counter as there's the dishwasher and washing machine there too. I think the Lakeland caddy is the way to go, and I could keep it on the floor in the corner.

What I'd really like is to keep it outside the back door and just open the door to empty stuff into it, but I fear it'd get foxed.

This one looks good...

What I'd really like is to keep it outside the back door and just open the door to empty stuff into it, but I fear it'd get foxed.

That's what I do. No foxes. The only time I have had a problem was with intact egg shells so I now crush them (besides, they don't decompose if they go into the compost intact!)

Ooooh senua brilliant! What kind of bin do you have?

Does anyone have one of those fancy garden composters by the way? I'm assuming I can use liners with them?

We stopped using ours after the summer - it stank no matter what you lined it or cleaned it with. And after reading online about peoples dogs dying from emptying them and eating mould, it went. It's bad enough having 3 wheelie bins let alone a stinky one full of rotting food that gets emptied fortnightly.

We had one like this from the council at my last house, when you lift the handle it locks the lid - no foxes. Kept a caddy in the kitchen but put it out every day into the bigger one - and things like half a loaf of leftover bread, cauli outer, chicken carcass, went straight to the outside one.

New location has no food waste recycling, it's manky putting it in the normal bin!

Ooooh senua brilliant! What kind of bin do you have?

arf. It's a common-or-garden bucket, that gets emptied into the compost bin at the top of the garden as and when.

No lid?!

Nope.
It does have a handle.

I just use a metal one that looks pretty in the house. I use those biodegradable bags inside. It then gets emptied every day, MAX every 2 days. The little bags go in to the big caddy from the council that lives outside. Anything extra stinky like fish would be straight out.

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The biodegradeable bags last too long in my wormery, annoyingly.

I use a spare coffee caddy with a cloth in the bottom. It's a bit small, but the lid is airtight which helps with smell and flies.

I wondered about trying to make room in the fridge.

How do you stop the bag getting wet and sweaty?

Just get something with a decent lid and make room for it in a cupboard. We have a caddy for indoors and a bigger bucket for outdoors, both with lids, and have never had any problem with smell. If we move councils I'll do something similar. And yy to pp, it does now seem manky to put food waste in with the general.

We have a small plastic one in the kitchen provided by the council. It doesn't get smelly really, I wash it once a week(ish) and spray with zoflora.

Whatever you do, don't buy the caddy bags from Aldi! They're awful and fall apart as soon as you try to lift the full bag out of the bin!

@picklemepopcorn empty daily or maximum very two days of nothing smelly in there. Every day in the summer without fail.

I also dishwasher mine twice a week to keep it clean.

For composting, unless you're doing fancy hot box stuff, surely you're just putting uncooked bits of fruit and veg in there? Maybe egg shells too, and coffee grounds etc if you have them?

I don't put cooked veg, or any grains, or any meats into my compost.
So for composting stuff, I just put it into a lidded bucket which sits outside the door, in a shady bit, then empty that frequently into the compost bin. But for non compostable food waste, we have a small caddy ( this one ) which we regularly empty into the big 'green bin' that takes food and garden waste, and is collected with the other bins.