food grade plastic

Started by randydrivesabus, July 07, 2007, 08:38:03 PM

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randydrivesabus

i'm getting ready to do some crush and strain....is food grade plastic necessary for the buckets?
the setup they sell at brushy mountain seems kind of overpriced.

Greg Peck

I do not know the answer to you question. I would think for sure that you would want food grade if you were storing honey in the bucket and I would use it for everything. But I can not say for sure if you have to or not.

Regarding the buckets I found that US Plastics has FDA approved 5 gal buckets for 3.47 and 1.17 for the lid. The website for the buckets is -

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=USPlastic&category%5Fname=20327&product%5Fid=26588

I bought some 2 gal pails from them and the service was great.

Hope this helps
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Robo

Visit your local bakery,  they get a bunch of stuff in plastic pails.  You can usually get them for free.
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randydrivesabus

thanks guys! that helps a lot.
is installing a honey gate pretty straight forward?

Robo

Quote from: randydrivesabus on July 08, 2007, 10:09:12 AM
is installing a honey gate pretty straight forward?

Drill the hole, insert the gate,  screw on the nut from the inside.  Just takes a couple of minutes..
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bluegrass

Food grade just means that it had food in it....5 gal. Plastic pales bought new are the same as the ones marked food grade......its just on them so they can be reused for food items.
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doak

Dito what Robo said,  I get my buckets from Bakery/Deli. Some are free and 1 or 2 $.
doak

randydrivesabus

my wife called the bakery at walmart and they said they have many of them that are hers for the taking.

doak

See how easy that was. Just wash up good, after eating some of the iceing they leave in them. :)
doak

randydrivesabus

so....a pint's a pound the world around....does this mean that 8 oz of honey weighs a pound?

imabkpr

Quote from: randydrivesabus on July 09, 2007, 07:54:05 AM
so....a pint's a pound the world around....does this mean that 8 oz of honey weighs a pound?

8 oz of honey weighs 8 oz.  A pint of honey weighs [ depending on the make of the pint jar and the moisture content of the honey ] 21 t0 24 0zs

A quart of honey weighs [ depending on the make of the jar and the moisture content of the honey ] 43 to 48 ozs   

Do you mean an 8 oz measuring cup of honey ?   If so 8 ozs of honey would weigh one half the weight of a pint jar of honey.  10-1/2 to 12 ozs     
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super dave

isn't 16oz a pound or am i wrong
lets throw it in the air and see which  way it splatters

doak

Yes, 16 oz is a pound when measured in weight.
An average pint jar, like some one said holds in the neighborhood 20-22 oz of honey. Which is 4 to 6 oz's over a pound.
An 8 oz measuring cup would therfore hold 10 -11 oz of honey.
Not to be confused with "fluid oz's".
doak

randydrivesabus

i've read somewhere that a pint is 1 1/2 pounds. so much for ' a pint's a pound the world around'.

doak

The regular mason jar was made for fluid oz's.
A standard one pound honey jar doesn't hold 16 fluid oz's
A 10 pound syrup jug doesn't hold a fluid gallon.
So a pint is not a pound the whole world round.
As a bakers doz. is not 12.
Just as in Bee Keeping, Get a book on weights and measures.
Don't know what else to say.
doak

doak

Sorry I wasn't paying attention. What does ( how much is in a pint) have to do with food grade plastic?
doak

tillie

FWIW, since free is certainly better than $, the same kit Brushy Mtn sells for 35.95, Dadant sells for 29.95

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Cindi

One gallon of honey weighs approximately 11.8 pounds.  The specific gravity of honey is 1.5, meaning that it weighs one and one half times the amount that water weighs.  Just a little trivia.

We use the metric system in Canada.  500 grams (just a little over a pound) (weight) of honey is approximately 350 ml (fluid measurement) :-D.  Seems all this talk is a little confusing to me  :)

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danno1800

Don't overlook your local WalMart as a source for food grade 5 gal plastic buckets. My local one sells the empties for $1 apiece completely cleaned & ready to use for honey. Hope that helps! -Danno