According to the various fragments of promotional material I’ve seen the Kich’n'Komposter is a cross between a separating centrifuge and a waste disposal unit. It grinds up food waste, then separates it from the water so it can be composted. This may not seem particularly fantastic to some, but we try and compost everything, so as summertime swings by once more, the downside of regular kitchen wastage once again takes to the wing: Flies.

Grinding up food before it goes in the compost has two key benefits:

1. It helps the worms to eat the scraps more quickly, because there’s more surface area they can attack it from, this means the composting time is drastically reduced, so there is less compost being made at any one time.
2. The waste can be more easily mixed-in with the existing worm tailings (soil), so flies can’t get at it so easily. If they do lay eggs near it, they’re less likely to become viable maggots if the food source is buried.

The Kitch’n'Komposter therefore seems like a great idea, so:

1. Has anybody seen one?
2. Does anybody own one?
3. Does it work as we might imagine and is it effective?
4. Why can I not buy it anywhere?