Food Cycler Eco 5 Award-Winning Kitchen Food Recycler | Indoor Composter Bin Alternative | Electric Countertop Food Disposer with Odorless 5L Indoor Food Waste Bin for Easy Waste Management | Grey
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Features
- TRANSFORM KITCHEN WASTE INTO PLANT FOOD -WITHOUT LIFTING A FINGER: The FoodCycler Eco 5 is a convenient electric kitchen composter alternative to eliminate food waste. Ideal for busy homes, the Eco 5 does the clean up. It quietly grinds your food waste into plant food, reducing odors, messes, and the amount of trash you take out.
- SLEEK DESIGN: Garbage never looked so good. Featuring an award-winning efficient and modern design, the Eco 5 is the good-looking hi-tech food waste disposer of the future. The removable bucket can be placed close to your food prep area and move around with you as you work. One-touch button feature makes it easy to use, easy to follow and easy to love.
- ODORLESS AND QUIET: A refillable carbon filter absorbs any odors as the FoodCycler is working to transform your food. The FoodCycler's powerful mechanism ensures the unit functions as an odorless electric composter alternative.
- LARGEST BUCKET CAPACITY: The Eco 5 can take a whopping 5L of food waste and recycle it to almost 90% less than what it was in just hours! Go ahead, toss in your scraps, school left-overs, last week's dinner and more, there's lots of space! Sit back and enjoy your meals and get-togethers with easy clean up, no odors, pests, or chores.
- INNOVATIVE VORTECH SYSTEM: The Eco 5s Vortech(TM) patented grinding system can grind what others can't. Toss in your pits, peels, bones, leftovers! Vortech's efficiency means the FoodCycler indoor electric composter alternative consumes less power than your average clothes dryer.
Material: Plastic
Color: Gray
Brand: Food Cycler
Capacity: 5 Liters
Product Dimensions: 10.3"L x 13.8"W x 13.8"H
Shape: Square
Item Weight: 29 Pounds
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Manufacturer: Food Cycler
Material: Plastic
Color: Gray
Brand: Food Cycler
Capacity: 5 Liters
Product Dimensions: 10.3"L x 13.8"W x 13.8"H
Shape: Square
Item Weight: 29 Pounds
UPC: 703113715945
Manufacturer: Food Cycler
Item Weight: 29 pounds
Department: All Ages / Unisex
Item model number: 71594
Date First Available: May 2, 2023
Frequently asked questions
The Eco 5 FoodCycler transforms kitchen scraps into a nutrient-rich soil additive in a matter of hours. It uses a combination of grinding and dehydration, evaporating water content, and reducing the volume of the food waste up to 90%. This process creates an odorless, sterile output that can be used as fertilizer, thereby reducing the food waste footprint.
No, the Eco 5 FoodCycler is designed to operate quietly. It has a noise level similar to a dishwasher, making it suitable for use in home environments without causing significant noise disruption.
The Eco 5 FoodCycler can process most types of food waste, including fruit cores, vegetable peels, dairy, and chicken bones. However, it is not recommended to process large bones, pits from peaches or avocados, or highly fibrous materials like corn husks as they can damage the unit or not be fully processed.
No, the Eco 5 FoodCycler does not require any additives or chemicals to operate. It is designed to reduce food waste through a mechanical and thermal process alone. For maintenance, it’s recommended to clean the unit's bucket regularly with soap and water and to replace the carbon filters as required to ensure the system remains odorless.
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This is our summary and key points to consider based on customer reviews.
Customers have overwhelmingly praised this kitchen food disposal management system for its ease of setup, quiet operation, and effectiveness in processing a wide variety of organic waste. Despite a few concerns about the cost of maintenance and the durability of certain components, the consensus is that it's a valuable addition for anyone looking to manage kitchen waste responsibly and efficiently.
Pros
- 🌱 Easy to set up and use right out of the box.
- 🔇 Remarkably quiet operation, comparable to modern dishwashers.
- ♻️ Efficiently converts a wide range of food waste into compost, enhancing garden soil quality.
- 👃 Pleasant smell of pre-compost, with no odors spreading through the house.
- 🍃 Provides a sustainable solution to managing kitchen waste and reducing landfill contribution.
Cons
- 💸 Higher maintenance costs due to the need for frequent charcoal filter replacements.
- ⏰ Some users report longer than expected processing times for certain compost cycles.
- 📚 The manual and product information may be out-of-date or unclear for some users.
Should I Buy It?
If you're committed to reducing your kitchen waste in an eco-friendly manner and are willing to invest in a solution that simplifies this process, then yes. Despite some maintenance costs, users find it to be an incredibly useful tool for enhancing their garden's soil and managing organic waste more efficiently. However, consider your budget and willingness to perform regular maintenance when making your decision.
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Actually, it was my husband who urged me to write this review since I don't review items much. I went to his office room and said, "This food composter is one of the most important implements I have ever bought for our house." He said to write a review. I live rurally, and we are forever plagued unsurprisingly by mice, rats, and others. I had an outside food bin for composting, but the rats got into it all the time. When the rats started getting in walls of my very old home, and had apparently their evening meals on my compost bin, I learned of this recycler from friends. I purchased this on Amazon one year ago. OMG what a wonderful tool. I eliminated the outdoor compost pile (we did do some patching of our walls), and I use the food recycler 3x a week. It's quiet, I'm left with a fine powder like substance in the bottom, no mechanical problems, AND NO MORE RATS IN OUR WALLS!! Great product.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2025 by Donna Richeson
Color: White
I had the Lomi food composter and thought it was a miracle. Two years later it needed a repair. Customer support was unresponsive. Seriously crickets. I simply wanted to see if they could repair it. I complained to Amazon. They also had no luck in contacting Lomi. Thankfully they honored my loyality as a consumer, told me to return my broken Lomi, and gave me a credit. How great was that! I researched alternative composters and discovered the work horse of composters : the Food Cycler Eco 5! The reviews were excellent. Best of all, reviewers, and the company assurred me of the 3 year warantee! I pulled the trigger and ordered it. I LOVE it! Having been a loyal Lomi fan, I crossed over and now am a full fledged Food Cylcler Eco 5 fan. It is such a better, thoughtful, efficient product. When running, I barely hear it. The Lomi was SO LOUD! There are really helpful directions about maintenance, cleaning, and over all care. Absent with Lomi. The carbon cartridges are much easier to load. The run time is comprable to Lomi and yields the same type of compost. Still I know have upgraded! Forget the Lomi!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2025 by Suky Kearney
Color: White
Works just as expected. Filled the bin with corn cobs, veggie peels, and food scraps. In about 5 hours it was turned into a mulch looking substance. The machine is very quiet and fits perfectly on a kitchen counter. There is no smell what so ever.
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2025 by Jill
Color: White
First few loads have been great. I would like to figure out how to have it less dehydrated as the chopping is the real benefit to me. With that said, it’s much quieter than expected, reduces bulk by a TON, and is great with a removable tub. It’s a little tough to clean with the sharp insides but if you let it cool off it can be brushed out. I’ll throw in a couple photos of before and after container amounts.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2025 by D. Terpstra D. Terpstra
Color: Gray
It is worth the extra $. So much better than my last one. Does a great job so far.
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2025 by ROY ADERS
Color: Gray
We use this daily! Works great! The noise level is very mild and acceptable. I would say the only draw back is the smell sometimes, however it’s not a problem since we keep it in the garage.
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2025 by Andy
Color: White
A pot full of veg and fruit trimmings, tea bags, coffee grounds, shrimp shells, popcorn hulls, etc., turned into this fine grained compost in a few hours. Just set the basket full of food scraps in the housing, turn it on and it takes care of itself. Quiet and unobtrusive while processing. The container has a filter in the lid that completely prevents odors as it sits on the kitchen counter collecting material to be processed. This is a simple overnight sensation. It reduces the bulk of food processed by about 90%. The resulting compost is dry and fluffy (as long as you don't add greasy foods or too much doughy or high-liquid-content scraps). The finished compost easily empties into a bucket just waiting for the spring garden. We've always had great success with Vitamix products, and this one did not disappoint.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2025 by Vicki Vicki
Color: Gray
Update after 3+ months: The charcoal filter has required replacing the pellets much more often than the info from Vitamix said to expect. We’ve had to replace ours at least every month. The $25 for each replacement means an annual cost of $300, which makes this device ineffective in terms of cost, though it does help with managing food waste. We’ve also found that it always requires ten or eleven hours to complete a cycle, which is longer than the Vitamix description indicated. It does work and is a good idea, but because of the total cost, I don’t think I’d buy it again. A real plus is that it is usually almost silent. A few times it has emitted loud groans and odd noises; the sounds caused us to laugh though, rather than cover our ears. Be sure to clean the filter in the lid often; The light, fluffy “compost” can make a little mess when the lid is opened. We vacuum and rinse around the lid when need be. I can’t say yet what effect the processed dehydrated food will have when added to garden soil as we are waiting for warmer weather before using it. I recently read that coffee grounds are not actually good for compost as caffeine stunts the growth of many plants. We are keeping the coffee grounds and filters separate from the other food waste and processing it once every week or two. Maybe we should try the recycled coffee as a weed suppressant? The manual that came with the one we received in Nov., ‘23 was not up to date; it seemed to be for the first model; it should also be more clearly written. Got this six weeks ago, have used it a lot, and so far it works very well. Two times the compost wasn’t completely dry, so I restarted and let it run again. The past week I’ve been adding fading holiday greenery from the mantelpiece—small holly and magnolia leaves and twigs—to the usual things such as coffee filters and grounds, fruit cores and peels, vegetable trimmings. The faded greenery and twigs were so good for the compost mixture that I’ll be adding other plant prunings. The compost came out very much like loose peat moss, light and fluffy! Before buying, I read different opinions about the ecological impact, decided against getting this, then decided to try it. I am concerned about recycling the recycler when it quits working. If Vitamix would recycle old machines, it would be a responsible thing to do. My hope is that the food cycler is one stage on the way to more effective solutions.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024 by Careful Reader