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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2013, 04:40:15 pm »
Nah, I think everybody figured you got them for free, danno.

I got a free bucket from the deli in Wallyworld several months ago.  Since then all that I've gotten have been snotty responses when I've asked. :?  I didn't like Wallyworld to start with and these rather unfriendly responses that I've gotten are just reinforce that feeling (to each his/her own, eh Kathy? ;) ).

Anyhow, we don't have any bakeries around here to score buckets from so I guess we'll be buying what we need from Lowes.

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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2013, 04:56:15 pm »
(to each his/her own, eh Kathy? Wink )

 :-D  i don't shop there.  i like them because they are incredibly generous in their giving during disasters, not to mention organized so that they can get the stores and gas stations open.
if they ever put one near me and i shop there, i might change my opinion a bit..........
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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2013, 06:01:52 pm »
If it makes any difference I like Wallyworld a *lot* more than I do Goodyear Tire.  :-D

If someone wants to do a search on food grade buckets you might want to venture into the wine/mead making realm of things and see what you find.  Being food grade and a low oxygen permeability are important aspects to wine and mead makers.

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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #23 on: March 21, 2013, 06:13:30 pm »
I have used old pickle jars to feed sugar syrup with. I soaked them in hot soapy water for a couple hours, then put in direct sun for a couple days. Seem to do just fine, the girls went right to their snack!! HAHAHA  Still using some as well.   

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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #24 on: March 21, 2013, 07:10:10 pm »
Here is my thoughts. 
I would rather  clean a Walmart bucket and know my honey is safe and spend the 4 bucks.
I would hate to put over $100 worth of honey into a bucket cause it was free and have it taste like pickles.
Just my little thoughts.
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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #25 on: March 21, 2013, 07:33:36 pm »
That's more or less my mentality, too, Bailey.  The one free bucket I got from Wallyworld smelled good...like cake frosting....but, it kept on smelling like that after washing and airing and...etc.,.  I've got dirty beetle traps soaking in it right now. 

But you know something, with the right marketing you could probably triple that $100 in some places......PICKLED HONEY!!!!!    Eh, well...maybe not....  :-P

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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2013, 07:36:38 pm »
I'm a great salesman but not that good by any means!
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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #27 on: March 21, 2013, 09:23:46 pm »
Not any expert on containers of any sort, but appreciate the literature with those post moots... I would also like to reiterate what Mrs. Kathyp said: Walmart is very generous when disasters happen as i learned first hand after hurricane Katrina... They opened an entire warehouse outside of Shreveport, Louisiana and gave anyone who needed it tons of food (can goods, frozen food, etc...)They allowed you to come back as needed and even handed out 25 dollar gas cards twice a week for a couple of weeks... I am a man and would much rather take care of my family then leech off of others but it helped when i had nothing....Nothing bad to say about them.
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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #28 on: March 21, 2013, 10:41:13 pm »
Not any expert on containers of any sort, but appreciate the literature with those post moots... I would also like to reiterate what Mrs. Kathyp said: Walmart is very generous when disasters happen as i learned first hand after hurricane Katrina... They opened an entire warehouse outside of Shreveport, Louisiana and gave anyone who needed it tons of food (can goods, frozen food, etc...)They allowed you to come back as needed and even handed out 25 dollar gas cards twice a week for a couple of weeks... I am a man and would much rather take care of my family then leech off of others but it helped when i had nothing....Nothing bad to say about them.

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I'm with you....I never really got the hate on the successful corporation thing!  Like any of us, they're certainly not perfect, but you're correct, they do a world of good will work.  I have a counsin that is a pharmacist for Wal-mart on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, after Katrina they were back up and running extemely quickly and  filled perscriptions for weeks, if not months, at no charge to anyone.  What amazes me is he told me that when they started charging again that they had some people get furious about it....UNBELIEVABLE!   :?

I've also worked some local charity fundraisers where they've donated large quantities of supplies at no charge. 

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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #29 on: March 22, 2013, 12:14:58 pm »
i was down there right after katrina.  our emergency trucks are diesel.  there wasn't any.  +, down where i was, no stores were open.  no electricity for most.  walmart asked for volunteer truck drivers and workers to go down and get one store and one gas station opened.  as soon as the power company got electricity to them, they opened. 
the didn't have much, but they had the basics.  they fueled our trucks at a huge discount.  they were a little oasis in mass chaos   :-D

frosting buckets:  try washing them in vinegar.  frosting is high fat/grease/oil and it is hard to remove.  the vinegar cuts that stuff.  i have also found it helpful in removing pickle and tomato sauce smell from lids.  i know that sounds counter-intuitive, but it seems to work.  so does leaving the lids in the dishwasher for several cycles....most of the time.
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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #30 on: March 22, 2013, 02:17:16 pm »
Ed, not sure but I think the wally world jars are $1 case or so cheaper.  Have been trying to talk local wal mart to order some with single piece lids.  Told them that if they would and got the price right it could mean several hundred case orders.  I don't know where but local beek goes to Tenn to get his jars.  I think he gets about 700 cases per year, says he saves $1 per case including the trip.  Kathy we have 4 walt marts and a sam club within 25 miles. 



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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #31 on: March 25, 2013, 04:33:30 pm »
I bought some yellow food grade buckets from a container company to keep my honey in... that way I wouldn't use some of my white ones by mistake. Not much more that the ones from WallyMart or Lowes.

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Re: Food Grade Buckets Question
« Reply #32 on: March 27, 2013, 09:37:30 am »
I had a good source of 15 litre buckets that were used for mayonnaise.  I wondered how my source go so many buckets.  She worked at a company that did catering for major airlines.  15 litre are a good size.  Holds 20 kg with space to spare.   

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