Pickle Bucket for grist?

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Ok folks - here's the question. I wanted a food-grade bucket for under my Barleycrusher to catch the milled grain. I asked at my local foodstore, and they came up with a 5 gallon pickle bucket. Definitely food grade, but really smells like pickles. Will an oxyclean soak do the trick? Should I worry about any off flavors from grinding into this thing? Will my cheapness bite me in the a$$?
 
I have never been able to get the pickle smell out of those containers. Bleach, oxyclean, you name it, the smell is there to stay. Go to a grocery store bakery and ask for their empty icing buckets. Still cheap but smell a whole lot better. :D
 
Will probably be fine. I'm guessing the oxyclean will get it, just line it with a plastic grocery bag or something and grind to there. Have you tried an ice cream parlor? Those buckets work well, too

PS: Your sister is a pickle bucket. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
I got one at Firehouse Subs for $5.00. The money goes to help firefighters and they cleaned it for me in the store. I have never been able to detect a pickle smell from the bucket.
 
I highly doubt you are going to get any pickle aroma or flavor from the short contact with the grist; I've used soy sauce buckets, pickle buckets, icing buckets for various containers in my brewhouse without any negative consequences.

Hit up the bakery department of your grocery- you'll wind up with more buckets that you know what to do with. Trust me.
 
I've managed to get the pickle buckets I picked up from a deli to stop smelling like pickles.

Use them for bait buckets on the boat and for holding your catch. They'll never smell like pickles again.

Now, if I only knew how to get the fish smell out of the pickle buckets. :(

:D

All joking aside, line the bucket with a trash bag. Easy to move about and keeps any "pickle" funk at bay.
 

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