New cooler trick for me at least

[Willc]

My wife orders meals over the internet when I am gone . They come with four of these giant gelpacks.
I thought that may work well instead of ice . It is two and half days and still frozen. The cooler is a Coleman steel belt from the late 70s. I can't imagine how good it would be in a roto mold.

 

[GONOVRIT]

They’re good until something bounces around and breaks them and gel gets all over everything.

 

[doc]

Hard to make Coors Light any worse than it already is...

 

[junkxj]

I have been using those for at least 10 years, and have never had one bust....

 

[Willc]

They’re good until something bounces around and breaks them and gel gets all over everything.

Keep it full and there is no room for bounce

 

[NCJeeplover]

Is there a cheap place to pick some of these up?

 

[Infamous1]

/\this/\

 

[Willc]

Nope I have them all

 

[rodney eppes]

I've had some similar, but thinner, & a tad smaller. Freezable Ice packs, from the drug store, for aches & sprains. I use in my cooler too.

 

[upnover]

Ask around, anyone who receives meds that have to be refrigerated, via mail, will have some of these, as well as some small Styrofoam coolers(maybe big enough for a 6 pack)

 

[Dirt Mcgert]

I done the same thing , my only complaint was the sharp edges of the ice packs popped about 6 cans in transit

 

[Southern_Transplant]

Is there a cheap place to pick some of these up?

With the meal recipe delivery services, lots of folks are getting these every week. If you're around Fayetteville, let me know. I get about three cooler packs a week in the boxes. I can save them up for a month and do a link up with a box of them for you.

 

[chrishundley138]

I scored a fridge freezer from gander for half off. Hopefully wet sandwiches are a thing of the past.

 

[Caver Dave]

Hopefully wet sandwiches are a thing of the past.

You sound exactly like Ricky Rubin rubbin' our noses in his ARB freezer/fridge on the trail!

 

[hammer11b]

Diaper stuffing in a zip lock also works well. Just clean the shit out first.

 

[OnlyOneDR]

I scored a fridge freezer from gander for half off. Hopefully wet sandwiches are a thing of the past.

I bought a Dometic CF-35 back in 2015, never going back to an ice cooler. Less room inside the same size cooler but no loss of space for ice, nothing gets wet, awesome. For a regular cooler I keep cheap bottled water in the deep freezer and use those instead of ice. They get condensation on them but never bust and you can drink them later if you need to. Dry ice is also nice and if you do not open the cooler much (like 2-3 times a day) it can go nearly a week if everything was frozen to start with. Went to AZ and did the north rim for a week back in 2016 and between my buddy's Ozark rotomold cooler with everything pre-frozen and dry ice and my fridge freezer doing the beverage cooling duties we were set for with no ice for six days.

 

[71chevytruckguy]

If you bring bottled water with you, put them all in the freezer about 3 days before you leave. They'll stay froze all weekend and don't take up any extra room.