Safe uses for Homer Buckets

So, I've got a couple extra orange Homer Buckets from Home Depot. Is it safe to:
1. Store grain in them?
2. Use them to submerge bottles in Star San while bottling beer?
3. Store Star San, long term, between batches?

Thanks.

I've stored grain in them for years, lots of folks on here do.

+1, I definitely use them to store grain. They work great

Oh no, those Homer buckets are only good for bailing out your cesspit. See the recent thread on Ghetto Brew Kit. Evidently beer snobs use only titanium buckets. ;-)

Store grain, I ferment small batches in them, water buckets, grain mill projects, they're food safe.

Any thoughts on using them for Star San?

Plastic paint buckets are fine for StarSan, like Home Depot, Lowes. and others. Absolutely non-reactive with that chemical. The packaging is a plastic bottle. [grin]

A search turned up a coupla previous threads on this. Then again, it seems darn near everything has been discussed. If people (self included) did not ask similar questions, there would be no more posts.

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Survivalist forums discuss storing grain in sealed mylar bags inside of plastic 5 gallon buckets. That is for loooong term storage of years. I don't think us hobby brewers need to worry that much. If you are not using up your grain in a year, brew more often

Epimetheus said:

Plastic paint buckets are fine for StarSan, like Home Depot, Lowes. and others. Absolutely non-reactive with that chemical. The packaging is a plastic bottle.

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Not true, at least with a Lowes bucket.
Now, yes, it took almost a year of storing various batches of StarSan, but it did start leaking.