Quote Originally Posted by Illini Warrior View Post
don't get it wrong - not picking on you ....

but food always need a food grade container - there is no liner to make that stored food safe when you use a contaminated container ... contamination is at a more finite level than just physical contact between food and a surface .... and the contamination is embedded into the container beyond the point of simply washing/soaking it out ... overall good example of this contamination problem is the pickle brine smell in a deli bucket - almost impossible to get that embedded solution out of the plastic pores - that brine smell will transfer into your food even thru a mylar bag and taint your stored food ....

in your particular case you compounded the contamination using that contractor bag - garbage bags are manufactured with unqualified poly & chems and are usually sprayed with a solution to odorize them and repel insects/pests ... I wouldn't even water my garden with H2O that came out of a fresh garbage bag ....

Thanks for that advice Illinois Warrior.

I am not sure where one gets food grade buckets in any quantity. I chose these because they are readily available in quantity.

While I have not so done...my friend who has also done this with these orange buckets from Home Depot ...has put a valve in them and pulled down a vacuum when sealing them. Much of his stuff is in vacuum sealed bags as well. He seals the lids with bathtub type caulk sealer before pulling down a bit of vacuum.

I too have a food saver vacuum machine and put stuff in these buckets lined with black contractors bags.


Yes....I had thick pickle buckets years ago...and discounted them precisely because of the brine smell.


Thanks,
Orangetom