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The key to cooler success.
I’m in dire need, as my POS 25 year old plastic cooler doesn’t even hold ice for 24 hours. Extremely aggravating when camping.
I really don't know much about coolers. I've got a massive Igloo that I use a lot, and some smaller ones. High end coolers, I know nothing about (outside of Cambro/Carlisle catering stuff).
It's an exercise in futility in my houseThe key to cooler success.
One of my pet peeves are kids (and my wife frankly) who grab something out of the cooler and just drops the lid without latching it or making sure the lid is all the way down.
I'm guessing "how can you keep the most ice in an existing cooler you own because your family are morons" experiment was out of the question?
I just spent a week camping at our county fair. We have an old cooler that we keep drinks in for the week. We had to buy ice every day to keep them cold. I would like something that will keep ice for days instead of hours.
Yes, though there is a sweet spot of ice and melted water ratio that seems to make beer submerged in it as cold as it can get w out freezing.
I get the perception, but water is always warmer than ice. When packing my cooler, I put a small layer of ice on the bottom, all my cans/bottles then load up the top. You can't tell I have anything in the cooler by the time I am done packing that sucker with ice.
Our last trip there was a bottom layer of slush where it froze the cans and bottles in the ice. We had to break it apart to get beer out. It was glorious lol
I have an RTIC cooler and it's really really good. I want to say I got mine at Costco or Sam's Club a year or two ago at the end of summer on sale?
Yep. Gotta have wheels at this point for me. I'm getting to old to hoist a cooler onto my shoulder. Might break a hip or something.
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Water ballons work too, and make for great family fun when totally melted with nearly ice cold water.
Wait...wut?
Well, I have a 34 foot fishing boat we go out in the ocean with and the live wells are DEEP and in the floor of the boat. So if we are going snapper fishing or deep dropping and they aren't big game fish it's easier to put them in the buckets in the cooler. If we are going mahi fishing then we use the wells as our ice chests. There are very few fish here in Florida that you have to keep live. Certain kinds of grouper and lobster are about all that we keep live.
Mine are on a rack in the garage. It makes a huge difference to drop a unopened back of ice or block of ice some time before to the the insides chilled down. Its an old trick that we use here
My garage In Memphis.. usually 80-90 in the summer depending on if I’ve had the door open and how hot it is.
hmmm....I'll have to try this. I usually get 5-6 days of ice without doing this...I'll see if it adds time next time I need to use it.
A beer bobbing around in ice water will colder, quicker, than if lying in ice alone. Surface area and all that...it's science. I'll start with all ice but I welcome a little meltage to get things sloshing around a little in there.I get the perception, but water is always warmer than ice. When packing my cooler, I put a small layer of ice on the bottom, all my cans/bottles then load up the top. You can't tell I have anything in the cooler by the time I am done packing that sucker with ice.
