I have to refer to the title of the thread - Curing RUBBERMAID buckets. Posts here generally said food grade plastic is what was desired over Rubbermaid. Other buckets that carried other items were discussed and the drawbacks and benefits were considered.
Also - we were not discussing toxic vapors but rather the molecules that these complex hydrocarbons were bound to. If you put something into an IO buckets like say.....Pickles....the plastic will absorb some of the chemicals in the briney mix the pickles are floating in. The bucket will smell like pickes for some time unless something is done about it - like curing it. I encourage you to consider curing any bucket even if it is food grade. Do you know what is in food grade plastic?
You may not have been referring to my posts but my chemistry background is in Organic chemistry. You could say I dream about polymers.
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