On 7 February and 12 February, I made a 2nd and 3rd tub of Garbage Enzyme. The second tub came about because I had lots of fruit dregs after making fruit enzyme. It was such a waste to throw the bits and pieces of fragrant citrus and dragonfruit skins so it went towards creating more enzyme. I plan to pass these to my neighbours (if they want).
So I shall go post the pictures for the benefit of those who called me up recently to find out how to get started on it. Or you can also click to read about My First Garbage Enzyme.
Collect your veg and fruit skins. They may include apple skins, cores, tangerine peels, pomelo skins, carrot peels, cucumber peels or even the stem of the vegetable that you think you won't cook and ready to into the garbage. I use lots of lemons so these lemons are also wonderful to make the enzyme smelling very tangy and lemony. You can even use Pandan leaves.
Start with a plastic ware that is airtight.
Based on my tub size, I filled about 60% of it with water. 60% of water in my tub makes 2 liters. Using this 2 lit measurement, I followed the required ratio.
This is equivalent to a ratio of 10:3:1 of Water:Dregs:Sugar
That would mean I need 600gms of dregs and 200gms of brown sugar/molasses/jaggery sugar for my 2 liters of water.
Stir in your brown sugar into the water. Add dregs into it. Make sure they are submerged inside. Cover the tub with the lid. I use a plastic at the top to make sure it is secure and air tight. Simple. Label your tub for 3 months.
Open the tub after the first week, to release some gas and do that every week on the first month. You may like to use a stick to press the dregs that may be at the top to keep them submerged in the sugar solution. After the first month, close and wait till the end of the final 3rd month. Filter out the enzyme for use in your daily household cleaning and sanitation, rid of odour and etc. The broken down dregs can be used as fertilizer in your planters' pot and fruit tree. They'll love it. :P
And Don't Worry. They DO NOT SMELL BAD.
Pictures below:
1. Collect Dregs 2. Stir Sugar 3. Add Dregs 4. Close Lid tightly 5. Label 6. After one week, open to release gas and push the dregs down if necessary.
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thank you teaching! but if can expose under the un or keep it in cool place?
just place it in any place away from sun. i place my tubs on top of the fridge!
Can I use the left overs from carrots that I juiced?
Mary Wong
Mary, yes, you can use those that you don't need, like the skin, heads, ends any part you don't need. Veg and fruits leftovers, that is not mixed with oil. So that your mixture will not turn bad. But avoid carrot juice because you are adding 10 parts water already.
I am very interested in making this, but I have a question. I have read on other sites that you need raw types of sugar, but you mentioned using brown sugar. Are you talking about Natural brown sugar? Or the standard C&H? And does it matter if it’s light or dark brown sugar?
Hi there,
thanks for sharing the 'recipe'. To make the enzyme smell better, is the lemon added in right from the start or added after 3 months?
:)
Hi Hsiaowei, adding lemon as what you would do in parts of the dregs. That should make up some parts of the dregs used. But I do use my lemon zest for my bakes so I'm usually short of them unless I buy about two or three, on purpose.. lol
Hi FAD Mom,
My garbage enzyme just turned 1 month old and my fruit enzyme 1 week old. Both have started to be mouldy on the top part of fruits/garbage that did not get submerged. For the fruit one, I was told not to add any water but to let the water of the fruit naturally come out. It was not enough to submerge the fruits. For the garbage one, fruit peels tend to float to the top of the solution. I have thrown away the fruit enzyme :(. Worms also appeared on the garbage enzyme. I stirred it and will wait for another 2 months. Things doesn't feel right. Can you advise?
hi anonymous - so sorry to hear that your garbage enzyme started growing worms... hmm
my advice is to use an exact ratio of 10:3:1 water/dregs/sugar
if u are using 1 litre water, 300gm dregs and 100gm sugar. nothing more nothing less. also do cut yr dregs into smaller pieces..i used wholely vegan stuff, none that was exposed to raw or meat items.. mostly fruit dregs or just some veg ones. this way you wont get some bacteria contamination fr raw food. use a chopstick or something to make sure the dregs get submerged into the solution. and open it up after a week and push the dregs down to the solution again. do it every week once for a whole month.
ya the one on the fruit enzyme (consumption) no need add water, it must be done on clean and sanitized environment, clean hands and clean containers. make sure u do not leave the fruits out too long and the containers and mats dry and clean.
this is my post on the consumption enzyme.
hope it helps
Thanks for the feedback and for introducing greenhoihoi's blog Fad Mom. I will try to make enzymes again. This time, to be more disciplined with the ratio of ingredients..
anonymous,
oh dear, i actually thought i did posted the link on my fruit enzyme earlier.. i must have forgortten.. here it is again, if you still want to make fruit enzyme for consumption.. .and it is Good!
http://www.fadaboutfood.com/2009/02/fad-mom-made-fruit-enzyme.html
great to hear that you will try to make them again. it is really effective. i use garbage enzymes to rid of clogged oil in my kitchen drain pipes.. it really works.
Honestly, I would not consider all of what you had used as "garbage". Maybe it sounds gross, but that piece of apple still have plenty of flesh on it, and those slices of orange and lemon can be better made used as "food".
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