Does anyone in or near Sault Ste. Marie know where I can buy five gallon food grade buckets?
I thought Home Hardware sold them, but the website says no results found. So do they sell them, and the buckets just aren't listed as food grade or...? I know there are places online I can buy them, but I'd prefer to walk into a store to buy them next time I'm in town.
Thanks in advance.
“...there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
Stephen King
I bought some at Home Depot they are food grade. But the lids don't close well. Canadian tire also used to have pails and they were food grade. If you just need a few, you might be willing to pay the fee $. If you need a few, or a regular basis, maybe you want to make friend with a local restaurant or bakery that just want to get rid of them.
Thanks helicopilot!
I bought some at Home Depot they are food grade. But the lids don't close well. Canadian tire also used to have pails and they were food grade. If you just need a few, you might be willing to pay the fee $. If you need a few, or a regular basis, maybe you want to make friend with a local restaurant or bakery that just want to get rid of them.
“...there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
Stephen King
I find that Home Hardware sells them - not always listed online but each store usually has 5 or so.
HopeImReady
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I've done a bit more digging and found you're right. Those buckets are on the list for the next time I go to town, with the lids. But I will be replacing the lids with the ones from Briden next month. Then the plan is to start storing dry pasta, rice and beans.
I find that Home Hardware sells them - not always listed online but each store usually has 5 or so.
“...there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
Stephen King
If there is store in your area called BULK STORE , they will give you free buckets, they get their food in.In 3 wks they gave us over 20 buckets of different sizes. Supper good seal on cower.
Henry
Briden Solutions in Calgary carries food grade buckets which can be fitted with gamma lids. I am sure that other preparedness companies carry buckets as well. I got a couple of buckets from a restaurant but they had contained pickles and the smell was imbedded in the bucket. They could only be used for "like" products as rice or pasta would have been tainted from the pickles.
"It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret"
I've bought some real nice food grade buckets (about 3 or 4 gal) from Bulk Barn for $2-3. Look for the ones with the gasket seal that twist on - best.
So noted, I'll add those to my BB list! Still wish they carried proper cornmeal...
Dragon
I've bought some real nice food grade buckets (about 3 or 4 gal) from Bulk Barn for $2-3. Look for the ones with the gasket seal that twist on - best.
“...there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
Stephen King
I got a couple of 5 gallon food grade buckets from Home Depot the other day, but I'll absolutely be getting those Briden lids! A few #10 cans of stuff as well.
Dragon
Briden Solutions in Calgary carries food grade buckets which can be fitted with gamma lids. I am sure that other preparedness companies carry buckets as well. I got a couple of buckets from a restaurant but they had contained pickles and the smell was imbedded in the bucket. They could only be used for "like" products as rice or pasta would have been tainted from the pickles.
“...there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
Stephen King
Dragonwriter,
Try this cornmeal. I'm local to these guys so I buy direct. I have also seen it in Sobeys, so you may be able to as well.
https://oak-manor.myshopify.com/products/organic-cornmeal
Here is the nutritional profile for Bulk Barn if you want to do head to head comparison.
http://www.bulkbarn.ca/en/Products/All/Yellow-Corn-Meal-Gluten-Free-1537
I used to work in a restaurant. Much of our food was purchased in food grade buckets.
The empty buckets were not returnable, so they would pile up in the back room. Usually they would end up being tossed in the recycle bins or garbage bins - such a waste of a useful item. Most restaurants are on tight margins, so they don't even use employee time or hot water to wash them out - they just toss them in the waste bin.
Our local grocery store tried selling their empties to the public for a $1 each. Probably they still do. They $1 charge would cover the cost of washing them out, and give them a small return.
I would suggest talking to restaurant managers and asking them if they'd like to donate their empty food buckets to a worthy cause, that being your community prepping efforts. Offer them a little money and they'd probably be happy to rinse them out and hold them for you.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fail, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
-Edmund Burke, 1729 - 1797
Like henry says
I get mine at bulk barn and give donation to owner for Alzheimers cause
Try a local restaurant. One of the place's I've worked gets vegetable oil in 16L pails. If they are thoroughly washed out, they usually re-seal well. We store bulk dry foods like rice in them once we've opened the bags. Some (Such as this place) do use them as we do a lot of bulk events, but smaller restaurants probably haven't got the use for them.
for a bucket to be food grade it needs to stamps. the recycling symbol, but also the FDA stamp. if it doesn't have the second stamp it's not food grade. the reason being is it's made of food grade plastic (the recycling symbol tells us that) but the chemicals used to release it from the mold are not always food grade.
Home depot NOT FOOD GRADE,
home hardware FOOD GRADE.
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