Incinerating toilets?

[LRDave]

Has anyone in this esteemed crowd had any experience with electric incinerating toilets? Experience - good, bad or meh....? Brands?

 

[Mdlerth]

Sometimes you're better off keeping sparks away from that thang

Never even heard of such a thing. Could you provide more detail? What's the advantage?

 

[braumeister]

They've been around for a long time. A friend had one at his mountain cabin back in the 70s. Haven't seen one since then so I can't help, but they can be a good solution in the right location.

 

[REWahoo]

Suggestion: Don't opt for the bidet attachment.

 

[HFWR]

Only after the rosy red refrieds...

 

[pjigar]

If it is for personal use then composting toilets would work even with very little power.

 

[ncbill]

I've seen them referred to only for military use, not residential.

 

[MRG]

I Googled them and now I'm getting ads in my Facebook feed. At $4695.00 the Cinderella model should be great.

 

[joeea]

You don't incinerate toilets. You smash them with sledge hammers.

 

[Lakewood90712]

I have met with one. and not a first choice for zero water use , but a good solution if you cannot have any waste disposal . They use a paper liner for each use.

 

[Walt34]

Ohhhkaaaayyy...I gotta ask - how does the Cinderella model of the electric incinerating toilet differ from the humdrum ordinary ones?

Frankly I find the topic a bit intimidating, sort of like that tagline someone has about electric fences. I wouldn't buy stock in the company that makes them. There just doesn't seem to be much future in a company whose products kill off the customers.

 

[Bruno]

We had one at work. This was over 15 years ago. I hope they are better now than then. We had to put a paper liner inside and you did your business and stepped on a lever to open it up and drop it all into a pan under that was heated up and was a vent. You sure didn't hang around while it was burning. There was a pan that you dumped that held the ashes. It was better than doing a squat along the road. I believe this is the one we had.

https://incinolet.com/product/model...MIsZa7zd-S5QIVax-tBh0utgwmEAQYASABEgKBbPD_BwE

Here is the video...

 

[Walt34]

Interesting! I had never heard of such a thing.

The things I learn on this forum are amazing.

 

[Lakewood90712]

Ohhhkaaaayyy...I gotta ask - how does the Cinderella model of the electric incinerating toilet differ from the humdrum ordinary ones?
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Goldtone finish and I pad holder.

 

[MRG]

Ohhhkaaaayyy...I gotta ask - how does the Cinderella model of the electric incinerating toilet differ from the humdrum ordinary ones?[emoji23]

Frankly I find the topic a bit intimidating, sort of like that tagline someone has about electric fences. I wouldn't buy stock in the company that makes them. There just doesn't seem to be much future in a company whose products kill off the customers.

Well here's a guy's opinion. I think I like they've been in business 20+ years and the reduction of waste to a teacup a week is pretty cool.

https://www.treehugger.com/bathroom-design/hot-poop-cinderella-incinerating-toilet.html

 

[ncbill]

Goldtone finish and I pad holder.

Can you get them in pink like a Princess phone?

Not an option for off-grid, of course.

The tiny homes I've seen online are off-grid & so usually use a composting toilet for indoor "business" where the entire "cassette" comes out and is dumped into the outside composter.

Often supplemented by an outhouse in nicer weather.

 

[Scrapr]

I've seen one in a home built to what is called the Living Building Challenge.This one was not going to hook up to city sewer they were so little waste. They were about 60% finished at the time but I don't know if they got a CO. LBC is a very very strict set of principles and difficult to achieve

https://living-future.org/lbc/basics4-0/

 

[harley]

I looked into them as well as composting toilets back when I was contemplating keeping my Mom's river cabin. It had electricity, but a very fragile well. It was more expensive than I wanted to spend for as seldom as I was going to use the place, but it had a definite cool/survivalist factor. And they seemed far better than the composting toilets. Incinolet was the brand I was looking at.

 

[LRDave]

Thanks for the feedback everybody! The Cinderella unit is 3X the cost of the Incinolet.

The power use is not insignificant: between 0.8kWh and 2.0kWh per use. This would be sited on my property well away from my house. I will have electrical service there but I am not going to dig a septic system and connect another water meter for just-occasional use. Also that would cost a lot more. Water also means worrying about freezing and leaks.

This is just an idea - not a plan yet. We are going to build a screened enclosure that I think will see a decent amount of use by us and friends and family. I think youngsters and families with children will use it for overnight "glamping". We are going to build the screen enclosure first and see if it actually draws a crowd.

 

[Spock]

you can guess what images came to mind reading the title..

 

[WestUniversity]

you can guess what images came to mind reading the title..

Maybe I should not have had those habaneros...

 

[socca]

Worried about the family jewels dangling close to a powerful incinerator? Don't be! The same engineers who designed the Boeing 737 MAX 8 flight control system also designed the latest incinerator toilets.

 

[Red Badger]

You don't incinerate toilets. You smash them with sledge hammers.

Conversely, tightly tape 4 cherry bombs or 4 M-80's (whatever you have in your pyro stash) together. Place them in the bowl. Light one and swiftly seek solid cover. Porcelain shrapnel has the right of way!

 

[gerntz]

I've seen an outhouse on fire.

 

[GrayHare]

Glad I'm not the only one who sees various interpretations of thread titles. For "Need a new home printer" my first thought was "Wow, do 3-d printers churn our homes now?"