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Old 03/05/13, 12:55 PM
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How to get out the pickle smell. I washed them with soap water and bleach. Even with this will the smell get into my sap?TIA
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I used to get buckets that held Enzyme Modified Cheese Product. The smell was like feet, but really concentrated. I let them sit out in the sun and rain for months, dumped them out once in a while, that mostly took care of it.

Now I just get frosting buckets from Festival Foods bakery!
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Old 03/05/13, 04:45 PM
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If the smell is still there, it will get into your food. We had mince meat-tasting milk for a year. Yuck! Put them out in the sun. Wash them with lots of baking soda and leave the soda in them for a while. Put them back out in the sun. Pray.
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Old 03/05/13, 06:18 PM
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lemon juice or vinegar will help along with the sun, something we haven't seen alot of here in Ky!
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Line them with a mylar bag.
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Um, I don't think vinegar will get a pickle smell out LOL

Time, that's all I know of that helps....
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Ditto the baking soda, letting them sit in direct sunlight for a few days. If that fails, the mylar bags will do the trick.
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