Cat food & Bokashi

[Flytrap]

Hi I'm new here. Have been reading old post for a few days now.

I have just ordered 2 bokashi bins via my council web site for £25 + p&p. Quite reasonable compared with the price on some other websites.
I have cats and they tend to leave food in their bowls and will not go back and finish it later (fussy things). And on very fussy days will turn their noses up at a whole bowl of their previously favorite food (!??!!!). Anyway, this stuff starts to smell very rapidly when put in my kitchen bin.
Is it OK to put this type of very processed cat food into the bokashi bins?
Also I presume it's ok to put raw meat into the bins too? The web sites always go on about cooked food but wanted to double check that for example raw chicken skin and fat cut of other meat is ok to go in.

Thanks for your help.

p.s. Just started a compost bin (darlek type) too.

[shirlthegirl43]

Hi and welcome to the vine.

Sorry, I can't help you with the bokashi question but why don't you try serving up smaller portions of cat food to avoid the waste? Our cat will eat loads of food if it is served up a wee bit at a time whereas a full bowl just gets left (I wholly agree on the stink thing too)

[Alison]

Yes, you can put all of those things in your bokashi bin. I tend to only use ours for meat and dairy remains as I don't see the point in using the bran on veg etc waste.

[Flytrap]

Thanks Shirley and Alison for your replies.
I do try to just give the cats what they will eat and no more but I still end up with leftover food somehow, especially with my older cat. I also try to give any leftovers to a very skinny stray cat that sometimes appears at the door. He also gets the flavours of cat food that my cats have decided are not the 'in thing' this month.

I also intend to use my bokashi bins only for the things that my new regular 'dalek' compost bin can't take.
Quite excited about receiving my bokashi bins but think I'll probably have a long wait. Placed my order several days ago and haven't even received an acknowledgment email yet. Also,I ordered through a special discounted council link but when I look at the main website of the company that actually sends the stuff, it says they are temporarily out of stock.
I want them now!

[mamamunk68]

Cats - fussy is not the word. I agree they seem to love something one minute and seem offended by being offered the same thing the next (unless of course its bird-flavoured grrr!) but I do put the leftovers in the bokashi and it doesn't seem to be a problem.

[Dynamo]

I have bokashi bins and I put what the cats leave in them. In the instructions it says you mustn't put pet waste in the bins, but I think that means the stuff that comes out of the other end thats left in cat lit trays and what people pick up with Poop-A-Scoops.

[GYOMalcolm]

If you divert kitchen waste to compost rather than bokashi you need a rethink. Don't do it! See this post.

Just because composting came first doesn't mean it is better or that it is worthy of religious adherence.