But there is a problem, a major problem, I can't seem to get the pickle smell out of them - no matter what I try. Do any of you have any suggestions? I would love to hear them so please share.*******************
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Unfortunately I do not have a suggestion for getting the pickle smell out of the containers. . . but one container that I use for my bulk beans and oats is to use five gallon buckets that you can get from Walmart or the hardware store. Just make sure you get the lid with them, and then I use two tools as well--one is a rubber mallet that I use to pound the lid of the bucket on nice and tight, the other is a plastic "C" shaped wrench type tool that I use to get the lid off! You just hook the edge of the tool under the rim of the lid and the lid comes off pretty easily. I have some buckets that I have used for years, and I have only very rarely had the edge of my lid crack and break. Most of them are holding up just wonderful.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about your windows--that is a TERRIBLE thing to happen with new windows!!! We have that problem in our house with our old windows, so I understand what you are talking about. Sometimes I have discovered the upper part of a window is slid down around four inches or so--and here we are either trying to heat or cool the outside! It would be even worse to have paid for new windows and to have the same problem!
To get the pickle smell out of containers, you need to fill the jar with water and put some baking soda in and let it soak for overnight. I don't know how much baking soda, if it doesn't work on the first try, put out more. I know this works for glass jars. I am not positive it will work for plastic, because plastic seems to take in smells more and hold on to them. I think though that the pickle smell shouldn't hurt dried beans, by the time you soak the beans and cook them, that should be way diluted and gone. You probably don't want to put flour in them though, if there is still a smell.
ReplyDeleteBarbara~ Thanks for the suggestion. I will have to try it out. And you are probably right about it not doing too much damage to beans.
ReplyDeleteThanks~ Lisa :O)