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(76.1% low quality reviews detected, based on 13 reviews)
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"made from a Combination of Stainless Steel & Cast Iron" Also, what is the point of painting actual Stainless Steel?
"An airtight seal lid" has holes in the it.
According to buyers, it has plastic incorporated in the handle that breaks and MOST SAY IT STINKS BADLY & DRAWS FRUIT FLIES HEAVILY.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
I compost a lot of stuff and go through the cons every year once it turns cold. At 1.2gal it's about the right size because you do not want to leave it sitting indoors for long. It will draw fruit gnats and flies, and they'll lay eggs in there then when you go to open it to put more scraps in, out fly the gnats and flies.
For this reason, you should go no more than two days between the first scraps and opening it outside to dump and rinse... less if you already had stray gnats and flies that may have already laid eggs on the rind of things you're throwing away.
Then comes the nasty part, cleaning it. You can just rinse something like this but the stink comes back fast if that's all you do instead of scrubbing, and the smell attracts the gnats and flies so much faster. I have a long handled brush meant for cleaning car wheels that I use next to an outdoor faucet, but in freezing winter weather that isn't practical so till spring I just skip composting until I have a lot to get rid of at once, enough to bother taking it all directly outside with no intermediary sitting around inside in a container.
If you do get gnats, set out several shallow bowls of cider vinegar with a couple drops of dish detergent in each. The gnats will fly down to check it out and drown in the vinegar because the detergent lowered the surface tension too low for them to walk on the surface.
Another alternative is more complicated, put banana peel in a cup with cellophane covering it, then stick a short length of straw half way down through a hole in the middle. Supposedly the gnats get stuck inside, but that must be emptied daily (outside!) or else they lay eggs, the eggs hatch, and there are so many new gnat babies that inevitably a bunch find their way out of the trap. Making this kind of trap and not emptying it daily, two days at most, is worse than not having the trap at all. The bowls of vinegar on the other hand, can be kept for a week and topped off as it evaporates.
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(76.1% low quality reviews detected, based on 13 reviews)
Tread lightly, this product may contain a major number of inauthentic or low quality reviews!
"An airtight seal lid" has holes in the it.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
For this reason, you should go no more than two days between the first scraps and opening it outside to dump and rinse... less if you already had stray gnats and flies that may have already laid eggs on the rind of things you're throwing away.
Then comes the nasty part, cleaning it. You can just rinse something like this but the stink comes back fast if that's all you do instead of scrubbing, and the smell attracts the gnats and flies so much faster. I have a long handled brush meant for cleaning car wheels that I use next to an outdoor faucet, but in freezing winter weather that isn't practical so till spring I just skip composting until I have a lot to get rid of at once, enough to bother taking it all directly outside with no intermediary sitting around inside in a container.
If you do get gnats, set out several shallow bowls of cider vinegar with a couple drops of dish detergent in each. The gnats will fly down to check it out and drown in the vinegar because the detergent lowered the surface tension too low for them to walk on the surface.
Another alternative is more complicated, put banana peel in a cup with cellophane covering it, then stick a short length of straw half way down through a hole in the middle. Supposedly the gnats get stuck inside, but that must be emptied daily (outside!) or else they lay eggs, the eggs hatch, and there are so many new gnat babies that inevitably a bunch find their way out of the trap. Making this kind of trap and not emptying it daily, two days at most, is worse than not having the trap at all. The bowls of vinegar on the other hand, can be kept for a week and topped off as it evaporates.
Thank you!