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How can I tell if a bucket is food grade? Sometimes the bucket has a dye added to the plastic that is not food grade This alone will prevent the FDA from approving it as food grade.
And sometimes the bucket manufacturer uses recycled HDPE. These buckets also are not food grade. And lastly, when something is put in the bucket that is a nonfood type product such as paint, chemicals, and such things, this also makes them so they are no longer food grade.
HDPE plastic is slightly porous and will absorb these chemicals which will gradually leach back into any food you place in the bucket later. So, how do you find buckets that are safe for you to use for the foods you want to pack yourself? If you are going to buy them new, ask the company who is selling them.
If you get used buckets, only use buckets you know have already been used to store food and haven't been used for anything else. You can find these at bakeries, ice cream manufacturers and parlors, large restaurants or kitchens, or food processing plants. Lots of times the people who get these buckets, hack up the lids and make them unusable. If this is the case, you can get lids from us for a small fee if you can't locate used ones.
You want to get lids that will seal air tight. They have limited usefulness in food prepping. Remember that you want all of your prepping supplies to provide as many uses as possible in an SHTF scenario. Non-food grade buckets reduce flexibility and food storage options. When the bucket is empty, you may want to carry water from a stream, ferment garden vegetables, or make mead, wine, or cider. Used together, Mylar bags and sealed plastic buckets are one of the best storage options for dry goods like wheat, dried beans, and white rice because they provide the best shelf-life and protection for dry goods.
Mylar bags and sealed buckets provide a reliable storage solution for dry goods, providing 30 years of shelf-life. Mylar bags are an excellent Oxygen barrier, but pests and rough handling easily damage them.
Buckets are not good at keeping out oxygen, but they are tough and protect the Mylar bags. Fact: Some preppers swear by storing dry goods in just food-grade buckets without Mylar. There are also examples of buckets not keeping a seal and heading south. This article contains details about how to choose oxygen absorbers for different sizes of food storage containers.
Fold the mylar bag into the bucket. Put the lid on the bucket, label it, and you are done. Because filled buckets can be very, very heavy, try to not stack them directly on each other. Over time, and depending on where they are stored, this will cause the plastic to crack and introduce moisture, pests, and light into your stored food. All of these will cause your food to deteriorate more quickly. If you must stack them, do not stack buckets more than 2 to 3 high.
More than that, weight becomes a problem and the lids can break collapsing inward. Food-grade buckets can be ideal for storing emergency food. With oxygen absorbers and stored in a cool location, your food will be fresh years from now. Thanks for this information. I find the food grade buckets from a local ag store actually cheaper than the five gallon buckets elsewhere. How do you close your buckets? The flat lids, or do you use something else?
I normally seal them with the flat lids they come with. Since you are using Mylar bags it is just to protect the bags. Sometimes for convenience I will use the gamma lids. I never knew that the small triangle at the bottom of plastic buckets does not mean they are food grade packaging. We are preparing a large supply of food storage to go in our basement.
Thanks for the tips on finding the right kind of bucket for storing food. Mylar does a better job than a plain plastic bucket in protecting food from oxygen and light.
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