Yup, that’s right. Composting cooked food has since been on our radar when we realised that adding hay as a covering seemed to work wonders in preventing smells and pests.
So the first thing we grabbed for this daring experiment was some leftover fried fish from dinner.
Notice in the video how Joe added more hay to the top. We wanted to be a lil more cautious since we’re composting cooked food for the first time. Besides, a good hay covering keeps smells and pests far faaar away! (At least that’s what we are keeping our fingers crossed for.)
If you are generally new to composting and wondering what all this big hoo-ha’s about… Well, composting cooked food is quite a “taboo” of sorts. That’s because it contains oils and other factors that may lead to odours and attract pests and rodents.
Bones also take forever to break down. But Joe said, “The compost could do with some calcium.” 
Last but not least, if Joseph Jenkins could prevent smells and pests simply by covering his humanure (human manure) with hay, why not for small compost bins like ours that don’t even have a hint of hamster droppings?
Excited about the results? We are! Stay tuned for updates. 
Joseph Solomon
Michelle Sarah
[...] Joe and I that one of the compost bins had started to stink. It immediately struck us that the fried fish in one of the bins must be up to no good. (It’s been two days since we first experimented with composting cooked [...]
Hello!Does this method work? Does it work for cooked meats too?:)
Hi there Casey! It surprisingly did well, but we can’t say for sure with regards to other types of cooked food like rice, pasta, chicken with bones etc. As we were concerned that overly composting cooked food might attract rodents (thus annoying our neighbours and ourselves), we haven’t (yet) gone forth with similar experiments since the fried fish
But yes, composting fried fish worked for us, albeit a slight odour effect at one point. But we solved it quickly hay. We also believe that there weren’t any pests because we only composted a small amount of cooked food (as seen in the video). The small amount made it very manageable for us. If you have a sizeable garden or backyard, we believe composting cooked food would be much more effective and hassle-free in a bigger composting capacity. Our bins are too small to encourage a “hotter” (hence more effective) composting environment!
Hope this helps