It's suppose to be able to crumble through your fingers pretty easily when you handle it. It sounds like yours is finished. You can run it through a screen or a grate to strain out the larger, possibly unfinished pieces of compost.

If I could piggyback on this post: what do people do with their finished compost when they don't need it right away? Can I leave it in the bun or should I wrap it in plastic?

The only thing I leave in the bun is a hot dog or a hamburger.

I use my compost right away.

If I didn't use it immediately, I would store it where it could get some air, and definitely not wrapped in plastic.

Finished compost will be a dark, crumbly textured material that smells like good, rich earth and has no easily identifiable original material in it. The single best place to put finished compost is in your garden when it is finished, there is no good reason to store finished compost even in the dead of winter.

seems like iread once that finished compost will not heat up any more once nitrogen products are put in the pile?????