getting the pickle smell out of pickle buckets

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Hume-ulus

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Ok truth be told, I'm cheap and it saves me a ton. I needed some more primarys so I can start doing ten + gallon batches. I found some pickle buckets at Jimmy Johns and have been trying to find a good method to get the pickle funk off the plastic. They are in good shape just "dilly"

If I have to toss them/repurpose them out side of my brewing hobby, so be it. But if you guys know some magical incantation, potion, non scrub odor killer, sanitizer from hell or something like it............ fill me in. FYI if you're idea works, then you know exactly where to get some free (call and ask them) 6+ gallon buckets. Jimmy Johns.......giving away free smells for years now.

Maybe I should lay off the IPA before posting..........
 
Well crud....... I somehow passed over the 37,000 posts about pickle buckets. Some how..... well, I guess I can still use them to catch the water from my chiller for the laundry.
Thanks for reading, sorry for wasting your time.....................
 
Sorry but the one thing that can't be gotten out of buckets to use them for brewing is pickles....I don't think you'll find one success story in all these threads. The pickling brine penertrates way too deep into the plastic.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/pickle-bucket-173350/

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/pickle-buckets-144485/?highlight=pickle

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/pickle-taste-bourbon-stout-132670/?highlight=pickle

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/pickle-bucket-grist-104109/?highlight=pickle

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/pickle-bucket-85010/?highlight=pickle

As all the above threads have shown, even multiple soakings of oxyclean won't work....If it were that easy there wouldn't be so many threads.

As much as I am all for scrounging, recycling and repurposing, and finding free stuff for our hobby. I have to say pickle buckets really just need to be passed by.
 
Thank you Revvy. I saw you post the same think else where that you posted here. Maybe that could be a punishment for my kids when they get out of line......... toss one of these bad boys in their rooms until they comply......... now thats an idea............
 
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