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The bokashi bin smell myth finally got debunked for me
I was dead set against bokashi for like a year because everyone online said it smells like rotten garbage inside your apartment. Then my neighbor in our 4-unit building in Portland started using one last month and let me peek inside after 2 weeks. Honestly it just smelled like pickles and a little sour, not what I expected at all. The thing that sold me was when she showed me how the liquid drainage tap works, you can dilute it and use it on houseplants. I always thought bokashi needed a backyard to bury the fermented scraps, but she just freezes the spent bucket and drops it at a local community garden on Sundays. Now I'm ordering my own 5 gallon kit and I feel dumb for avoiding it so long. Has anyone else switched over after hating on it for months, or am I the only stubborn one?
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sethanderson21d ago
The "pickles and a little sour" part is exactly what got me too, but here's the thing nobody talks about: that liquid drain tap is basically free plant food, so if you have indoor plants you're basically getting a fertilizer subscription for free. I ran the math on bagged fertilizer vs. what a single bokashi bucket cycle produces and it's wild how much you save over a year.
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