Is this drum safe?

[joepeep77]

Bought today for 30 bucks. Formerly held some sort of coconut oil based body product.

 

[indaswamp]

Should be good....clean it with fire. As in build a fire in it and burn it out.

 

[Chasdev]

Is that a coating applied to the inside?
If so what is it made of?
I would be cautious of having a fire and cooking food in a container that had say plastic or teflon coating.
Paint as well although I supposed a large fire to "cure" it might burn off enough to prevent your food from tasting like paint.

 

[joepeep77]

Is that a coating applied to the inside?
If so what is it made of?
I would be cautious of having a fire and cooking food in a container that had say plastic or teflon coating.
Paint as well although I supposed a large fire to "cure" it might burn off enough to prevent your food from tasting like paint.

It doesn't feel plasticine. Feels smooth, almost just like the metal itself. I'm concerned it's an enamel, which idk if a fire would remove.

Might be out 30 bucks, but luckily that's a pretty small amount to lose.

Might get a fire going in it today. We shall see.

 

[Nefarious]

Maybe you should scratch the inside surface and see what you get before the fire. Will certainly tell you if it is coated.

 

[joepeep77]

Maybe you should scratch the inside surface and see what you get before the fire. Will certainly tell you if it is coated.

Did this this morning after dropping my kid off. It's definitely got some sort of coating on it.

We'll see what a fire does. Might consider sandblasting too.

 

[DougE]

Get a good hot fire going. It'll burn any coating off both inside and outside.

 

[schlotz]

IMO if you don't specifically know for sure what the inside was coated with, I wouldn't be using it to prepare food. Depending on it's composition and sorts of harmful byproducts can result with being heated with flame.

 

[DougE]

The whole point of burning out a drum is to take it down to bare steel which isn't going to absorb anything from whatever was on/in it to start with. I won't even venture a guess on how many UDS smokers were made from old oil drums.

 

[Chasdev]

Question is if the health of the people eating the food cooked in it worth the money you paid?
If you can have a sample properly tested you can figure out if it is toxic or not.