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Save 50% on a Lomi Smart Kitchen Composter and Turn Thanksgiving Scraps Into Plant Fuel

Lomi composters are good for the planet, good for your garden and about as cheap as they've ever been ahead of Black Friday.

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David Watsky Senior Editor / Home and Kitchen
David lives in Brooklyn where he's logged more than a decade writing about all things edible, including meal kits and meal delivery subscriptions, cooking, kitchen gear and commerce. Since earning a BA in English from Northeastern in Boston, he's toiled in nearly every aspect of the eats business from slicing and dicing as a sous-chef in Rhode Island to leading complex marketing campaigns for major food brands in Manhattan. These days, he's likely somewhere trying the latest this or tasting the latest that - and reporting back, of course. Anything with sesame is his all-time favorite food this week.
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If you want to limit what you send to the dump, Lomi's efficient countertop composter can help, and it's 40% off right now for Black Friday and 50% off if you subscribe. (More on that below.) The composter normally sells for $500 on Lomi, but it's just $249 at this pre-Thanksgiving sale price. It's also down to $300 on Amazon in an apparent price match.

Are early Black Friday sales a good time to buy?

Many retailers start "Black Friday" sales as early as Halloween, or even earlier. The quality of deals can vary early on, but as November progresses, many of the deals are as good as the deep discounts you’ll see during Thanksgiving weekend. See the best Black Friday deals we’ve found, and keep up with all the latest deals with our full Black Friday live blog coverage.

I recently started using an automatic kitchen composter. Seeing all the food scraps in one place that were previously going in my garbage, and eventually in a landfill, was shocking. I'm a diligent recycler, and organic waste is easily more than half of what I throw away.

Take up to $250 off the modern composter when you buy it ahead of Black Friday.

So how does the Lomi work? We tested it to find out

The composter, which CNET reviewed last year, works quietly and cleanly and stifles all the nasty odors you would get from a traditional compost bin. You can read this or watch this to get the full story of how the Lomi works and what we thought of it. Put simply, you toss all your organic waste into the Lomi, and in a matter of hours, it turns discarded food into sweet-smelling, nutrient-rich soil for your garden and planters. You can also just dispose of it naturally outside if you don't have a growing space.

The Lomi's grow mode produces nutrient-dense soil for your potted plants and garden.

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This Black Friday price is about as cheap as we've seen the Lomi, and you're not likely to see it drop this low again until next November. As mentioned, if you subscribe, you get an extra $50 off. Subscriptions are $20 a month ($60 every three months) and include new filters (which should be changed every three months) and Lomi pods to add nutrients to the soil, sent every 60 days. Subscribers also get full coverage on the machine if anything breaks and needs repair or replacement.


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