Mill food recycler Valentine’s Day sale: Get a bin under $850 and transform your kitchen routine

SAVE UP TO $179.85: Through Feb. 16, the Mill food recycler kitchen bin is 15% off during Mill’s Valentine’s Day sale. Get the white model for $849.15 instead of its usual $999, and save on upgrades to black or stainless steel.

I’ve recommended a lot of Valentine’s Day gifts for her and for him this year. If your person’s the type who prefers a useful gift over a mushy one, let me casually suggest the most game-changing product that I’ve ever tested: The Mill food recycler that’s on sale right now. It’ll make their life easier and their kitchen less smelly on a daily basis — a true act of romance, if you ask me. And if you live together, you’ll get to reap the same benefits too.

I tell people that the Mill kitchen bin is worth it even at full price, which they are for a majority of the year. But through Feb. 16, they’re 15% off during Mill’s Valentine’s Day sale. The base model, the white one that I have, is $849.15 compared to its usual $999. With the 15% discount, you can also upgrade to the black Mill bin for $976.65 (regularly $1,149) or the stainless steel Mill bin for $1,019.15 (regularly $1,199).

So, how does Mill work? Picture your current kitchen trashcan. Now, imagine the next time you toss old food or cooking scraps into it — instead of smelling them every time you open the lid until trash day, all you’ll encounter is an odorless soil-like material. Mill holds all of your daily plate scrapings and old fridge leftovers dehydrating and churning them into food grounds silently overnight.

While it all sounds similar to compost, the Mill kitchen bin isn’t a composter because it’s not actually creating any actual decomposed organic material. Rather, the term “food recycler” refers to the later steps in the Mill cycle, when Mill repurposes your food grounds into chicken feed for small farmers. With the unique mail-back subscription, you’ll dump your full Mill bucket into free pre-labeled boxes that ship back to Mill via USPS. And unlike traditional compost, meat, most dairy, and small amounts of desserts can go into Mill.

Not only do I have to take the real trash out significantly less often, but even my own personal Mill usage is making a serious impact on the planet. I just checked my Mill app while writing this story: My household has diverted 702 pounds of food scraps from landfills in the two and a half years of using Mill.

Admittedly, Mill’s recurring costs will make it one of your more expensive appliances — the mail-back plan costs another $194 annually. But technically, the Valentine’s Day discount nearly covers an entire year of the pickup subscription, and I promise you’ll be spending less money on garbage bag restocks throughout the year.