I share two urban garden plots with my 87 year old neighbor. He has an old Mantis compost tumbler (discontinued post-covid), while I have a newer (and smaller) dual chamber polycarbonate drum from Home Depot. I probably put too many grass clipping’s in my neighbor’s drum, because it has been smelling sour for a while, and has been way too damp. Mine has been similar, but to a lesser extent. I’ve been adding tried leaves to both, to limited effect. While I was running errands today, I noticed that somebody had abandoned two boxes of pasta. One family sized box of fettuccini, and one of angel hair pasta. The boxes had ruptured, so four pounds of pasta was just sitting exposed to the elements in the gutter. It was probably no longer fit for human consumption, but is it compostable? This afternoon, I decided to find out. I collected the pasta, and added three cups of broken up pasta to each drum (a cup being a bundle between my index finger and thumb) and gave them a spin. I figure, since pasta is dehydrated semolina, maybe it will absorb the excess moisture in the compost, and start to rot on it's own. Has anybody else experimented with composting dried pasta?
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