Food waste fermenting!
"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:56:35 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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>>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 01:13:59 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
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>>>>"Roy" > wrote in message
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>>>>On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 9:56:57 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>> I haven't really had this problem before. Not that I can recall
>>>>> anyway.
>>>>> As
>>>>> I have said before, we are required to compost food scraps now and I
>>>>> don't
>>>>> have a compost pile or need or want one so I put the scraps in the
>>>>> yard
>>>>> waste bin. But we are having a long stretch of unseasonable hot
>>>>> weather!
>>>>>
>>>>> I attempted to clean the bin out last week because the super wet grass
>>>>> clippings made it smell like a cow pasture. But today it smelled like
>>>>> liquor! Most of what was stuck to the bottom was lemon rinds/slices
>>>>> and
>>>>> other fruit/vegetable scraps. I've been making a lot of smoothies and
>>>>> lemon
>>>>> water. I also tossed out some candy that I bought for myself only to
>>>>> discover that I couldn't eat it and nobody else I know likes it.
>>>>> They're
>>>>> organic candies that are akin to gum drops. And while the candies
>>>>> themselves do not contain corn, they put cornstarch in the molds so
>>>>> that
>>>>> the
>>>>> candies will plop out easier. The candies are covered in sugar
>>>>> crystals.
>>>>> Could the sugary candy have been the culprit here?
>>>>>
>>>>> I should also add that while we are supposed to put the food in
>>>>> Biobags,
>>>>> I
>>>>> don't always do that. Reason being, wet foods will eat through a
>>>>> Biobag
>>>>> so
>>>>> quickly that I can't always get it out to the bin before I have a hole
>>>>> in
>>>>> the bag. So those wet lemon rinds and slices went right straight in
>>>>> there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have any suggestions? Trying to dump the remains of the bin
>>>>> out
>>>>> and
>>>>> washing it out are not working for me as someone else who lives here
>>>>> will
>>>>> just put the stuff right back in the bin and close the lid.
>>>>
>>>>You are required to have a composter but refuse to buy one. THERE IS THE
>>>>PROBLEM...you refuse to play by the rules. And...that "someone else" as
>>>>you
>>>>describe the unknown person that inhabits your house, has no other
>>>>alternative but to make the best of a bad situation.
>>>>
>>>>I see composters for sale quite often...perhaps you might watch for such
>>>>a thing and BUY one.
>>>>
>>>>This might solve your problem of home brewing of your waste.
>>>>===
>>>>
>>>>No. I am not required to have a composter. I can either compost or put
>>>>it
>>>>in the yards waste. I have no need whatever for compost. My yard waste
>>>>is
>>>>composted elsewhere. I think the problem is the hot weather.
>>>
>>> So problem solved then.
>>
>>Hardly. I have to smell the stink each time I open the bin! I have had
>>problems with fruit flies before but never this.
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> I was being sarcastic, obviously.
Not obviously.
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