I need a bucket to sanitize (Starsan) my bottles in. Can I pick up any type of plastic bucket or does it need to be a specific plastic or food grade?
I use a 5 gallon plastic bucket from Lowes. It’s from the paint section and is semi-transparent with volume marks, which is nice. Probably not food grade, but it seems fine for sanitizer. I did fill it with water for several days first in case something leached out.
I use a couple Homer buckets for PBW bath, rinsing and sanitizing. Get what’s cheap and use your $ where it will go further like temp control or something.
I’ve repurposed old fermenter buckets as a sanitizing bucket and a grain bucket (Barley crusher sits right on top nicely). I also have the HD Homer buckets around for special purposes like this in case my regular buckets are unavailable.