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composting plain cooked rice??
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composting plain cooked rice??
Can you compost any cooked vegetables or rice if they have been cooked in only water and not had anything added to them?
Monet- Posts : 5
Join date : 2012-03-14
Location : Memphis
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
Most certainly, toss it in!Monet wrote:Can you compost any cooked vegetables or rice if they have been cooked in only water and not had anything added to them?
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Re: composting plain cooked rice??
Monet wrote:Can you compost any cooked vegetables or rice if they have been cooked in only water and not had anything added to them?
Even if the veggies or rice has stuff like butter and salt in it, just rinse it really well and you can toss that in too.
After eating corn-on-the-cob several times last year, I would rinse the butter and salt off them and toss them into the compost.
As a matter of fact, when I forked around my compost 2 weeks ago, I didn't see one cob.
Too Tall Tomatoes- Posts : 1069
Join date : 2011-10-24
Age : 53
Location : Pennsylvania, Zone 6A
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
I don't even bother rinsing it as my water is pretty expensive right now. Seriously, if it's not meat, bones, animal fat or plastic, into the compost bin it goes.
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: composting plain cooked rice??
I compost cooked rice, but I don't add any salt to it for cooking either(not that the amount of salt normally added would make that much of a difference after sitting through some rains). I don't compost any cooked veggies because there are never any left over to cook! But if there were, then I would(unless I added cheese to it, like broccoli or cauliflower...mmm..cauliflower with a good cheese sauce sounds good right now).
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Join date : 2011-04-23
Age : 51
Location : Greater New Orleans Area Westbank(Zone 9b)
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
camprn wrote:I don't even bother rinsing it as my water is pretty expensive right now. Seriously, if it's not meat, bones, animal fat or plastic, into the compost bin it goes.
You'd compost a butter-soaked corncob?
Too Tall Tomatoes- Posts : 1069
Join date : 2011-10-24
Age : 53
Location : Pennsylvania, Zone 6A
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
Yup, in a jiffy!Too Tall Tomatoes wrote:camprn wrote:I don't even bother rinsing it as my water is pretty expensive right now. Seriously, if it's not meat, bones, animal fat or plastic, into the compost bin it goes.
You'd compost a butter-soaked corncob?
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
camprn wrote:Yup, in a jiffy!Too Tall Tomatoes wrote:camprn wrote:I don't even bother rinsing it as my water is pretty expensive right now. Seriously, if it's not meat, bones, animal fat or plastic, into the compost bin it goes.
You'd compost a butter-soaked corncob?
Well I always just assumed that the butter would have to be rinsed. Interesting
Too Tall Tomatoes- Posts : 1069
Join date : 2011-10-24
Age : 53
Location : Pennsylvania, Zone 6A
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
I would, too, if it's encircled and there aren't any raccoons around...or if I had attached the thing to the ground somehow.
givvmistamps- Posts : 862
Join date : 2012-04-01
Age : 52
Location : Lake City, (NE) FL; USDA Hardiness Zone 8b, AHS Heat Zone 9, Sunset Zone 28
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
Corn cobs are not usually butter soaked because you have eaten most of it off.
cheyannarach- Posts : 2037
Join date : 2012-03-21
Location : Custer, SD
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
cheyannarach wrote:Corn cobs are not usually butter soaked because you have eaten most of it off.
butter soaked or not, there's still butter on it.
Too Tall Tomatoes- Posts : 1069
Join date : 2011-10-24
Age : 53
Location : Pennsylvania, Zone 6A
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
Not really Too Tall Tomatoes, the saliva left on the corn cobs after eating them with break down most of what's left on a corn cob.
cheyannarach- Posts : 2037
Join date : 2012-03-21
Location : Custer, SD
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
I'm with Camprn, throw it in the pile!
cheyannarach- Posts : 2037
Join date : 2012-03-21
Location : Custer, SD
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
Too Tall Tomatoes wrote:cheyannarach wrote:Corn cobs are not usually butter soaked because you have eaten most of it off.
butter soaked or not, there's still butter on it.
Sure, but with a nice sized pile, I can't imagine the little bit of butter is going to have much affect.
TN_GARDENER- Posts : 228
Join date : 2011-06-16
Location : TN
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
I do actually put spoiled milk and cheese rinds into the compost, no problems and it adds calcium. Good for the teeth
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
TN_GARDENER wrote:Too Tall Tomatoes wrote:cheyannarach wrote:Corn cobs are not usually butter soaked because you have eaten most of it off.
butter soaked or not, there's still butter on it.
Sure, but with a nice sized pile, I can't imagine the little bit of butter is going to have much affect.
I can't imagine bits of butter having any effect either. I just rinsed the cob off just because. Like I said before, my pile must've been cooking along great because the last time I tossed it around, there was not one corn cob to be found.
And camprn, I would imagine that if you bury dairy products under a lot of manure, no animal is going to smell it.
Too Tall Tomatoes- Posts : 1069
Join date : 2011-10-24
Age : 53
Location : Pennsylvania, Zone 6A
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
camprn wrote:I do actually put spoiled milk and cheese rinds into the compost, no problems and it adds calcium. Good for the teeth
Me too. In fact in the summer when I have to water the pile I use extra goat milk sometimes to water it. Saves water and adds calcium. My dogs can't get into my pile and they keep everything else away.
Lindacol- Posts : 777
Join date : 2011-01-23
Location : Bloomington, CA
Re: composting plain cooked rice??
Thanks to all of you...in it went!!!
Monet- Posts : 5
Join date : 2012-03-14
Location : Memphis
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