I'm doing 10lbs of bacon with a wet cure. I have a orange 5 gallon pail that's from Home Depot. Is that good enough to use as a container? Or will it react with the meat in anyway? Thanks for any help
They must not be Polyethylene, or Home Depot is just covering its ass.
HDPE2 does not automatically mean food safe. Usually the dyed buckets are not food safe despite being HDPE2.
Homebrewers use buckets but do not use the dyed buckets because they generally are not food safe.
Read the "product overview" on the Home Depot website for the Homer bucket and it declares it not food safe.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/The-Home-Depot-5-gal-Homer-Bucket-05GLHD2/100087613