are homedepot buckets food grade?

[Jester]

This. Why pay when you can get free AND recycle?

I drove around shopping centers scoping out the back looking for buckets and even spoke with different restaurants around here. No one would give me a bucket... Some restaurants were worried about the health department and others used all there left over buckets for things. I was expecting to get something, but after a few weeks of nothing I couldn't wait and headed to Lowes. Hahaha

 

[acuenca]

I drove around shopping centers scoping out the back looking for buckets and even spoke with different restaurants around here. No one would give me a bucket... Some restaurants were worried about the health department and others used all there left over buckets for things. I was expecting to get something, but after a few weeks of nothing I couldn't wait and headed to Lowes. Hahaha

You go up to the bakery section of your favorite supermarket and ask if they have any empty icing buckets... They usually go through 3~4 on most days....

 

[maffewl]

You go up to the bakery section of your favorite supermarket and ask if they have any empty icing buckets... They usually go through 3~4 on most days....

My local Wally World has caught on to the homebrewers and winemakers and started charging a dollar a piece for their bakery icing buckets.

 

[flushdrew42]

my local supermarket bakery charges a dollar each as well, but seriously? a dollar a bucket? i can't complain. better than 8 or 9.

from what i have discovered (since yesterday) the lids are only as good as the care taken by the bakery employee when opened. i got two yestrerday, one keeps a solid good seal, the other, not even close. but, it's ok, i have one bucket to ferment in, and another to bottle from.

i bought a spigot from the hardware store, one intended for water bottles, got a section of tubing that fits it, and will be good to bottle from.

 

[maffewl]

I'm not complaining... just stating that sometimes they charge. I don't (and wouldn't) ferment in these anyways. The seal doesn't matter, you can ferment just fine without a seal. They are usually all scratched up on the inside from where the employees were scraping out the icing and that is an open invitation to ruin a beer. I use them for grain storage and the like.