5-day cooler

[dkutz]

Do you use the frozen gallon milk bottles just to cool down the cooler before camping or do you use them as ice blocks FOR camping? Seems to me they would take up all the room in the cooler.

No just to precool

[butterflyfish]

Just wanted to let y'all know what I did.  It actually made and unscientific and uncontrolled test, so to speak.

I bought the $39.00 100 qt Igloo cooler at K-mart (figured since there were so many mixed reviews on it I shouldn't spend too much $$ on one.

Here's what happened:

Yesterday I needed to defrost our larger freezer so I took out 3 of our 4 coolers.  The new Igloo 5-day, the Igloo cube and a rubbermaid promotional cooler we got for free when we had our store.  I filled all three coolers with just the frozen foods and no Ice (well I had one bag of ice that was in the freezer I put in the cube since it didn't quite fill with food...)  Anyway since yesterday was a somewhat cool day (in the low 50's) the freezer took all day to defrost I started about 10 and ended about 3).  So after it was defrosted and I cleaned the freezer out and put all the food back, I cleaned the coolers.  First, let me say that all the food was still frozen from all of the coolers as would be expected.  I then sprayed cleaner inside each of the coolers.  The rubbermaid one, the cleaner just wiped out and there was no ice or frost left in the cooler.  The cube cooler had some ice stuck to its sides, and some frost but the cleaner still just wiped out.  The igloo 5-day cooler had a good amount of frost and froze the cleaner when I sprayed it on (very much like your freezer freezes cleaner when you try to clean it out cold.).  So I guess the 5-day does get colder than the rest and in my very uncontrolled and unscientific test the rubbermaid cooler performed the worst.  (It was a promotional cooler that we got free...so maybe you get what you pay for.)

Just thought I'd let you know.  I'm thinking if the 5-day cooler can keep the food cold to get us where we're going then we're in good shape!  

[McCampers]

Just wanted to let y'all know what I did.  It actually made and unscientific and uncontrolled test, so to speak.

I bought the $39.00 100 qt Igloo cooler at K-mart (figured since there were so many mixed reviews on it I shouldn't spend too much $$ on one.

Here's what happened:

Yesterday I needed to defrost our larger freezer so I took out 3 of our 4 coolers.  The new Igloo 5-day, the Igloo cube and a rubbermaid promotional cooler we got for free when we had our store.  I filled all three coolers with just the frozen foods and no Ice (well I had one bag of ice that was in the freezer I put in the cube since it didn't quite fill with food...)  Anyway since yesterday was a somewhat cool day (in the low 50's) the freezer took all day to defrost I started about 10 and ended about 3).  So after it was defrosted and I cleaned the freezer out and put all the food back, I cleaned the coolers.  First, let me say that all the food was still frozen from all of the coolers as would be expected.  I then sprayed cleaner inside each of the coolers.  The rubbermaid one, the cleaner just wiped out and there was no ice or frost left in the cooler.  The cube cooler had some ice stuck to its sides, and some frost but the cleaner still just wiped out.  The igloo 5-day cooler had a good amount of frost and froze the cleaner when I sprayed it on (very much like your freezer freezes cleaner when you try to clean it out cold.).  So I guess the 5-day does get colder than the rest and in my very uncontrolled and unscientific test the rubbermaid cooler performed the worst.  (It was a promotional cooler that we got free...so maybe you get what you pay for.)

Just thought I'd let you know.  I'm thinking if the 5-day cooler can keep the food cold to get us where we're going then we're in good shape!  

Nice test.  and you always get what you pay for.  Sometimes you don't know what you're paying for until after the fact, but you always get what you pay for.  One way or another.  I like my cube, but I'm still am looking into an Engel.  THey are way highdollar, but they look like the real deal.

[spicyville1]

Here is what I did. I ordered some steaks from Omaha Steaks and the large shipping styrofoam container they used to ship them in is great. It is about 28 qts so it is decent in size. They are very very thick!. I now use 1 10lbs bag of ice for the entire Fri-Sun campouts and I still have Ice left over. I recently found one of the medium size Omaha containers and I use it for yes.... Ice Cream!  :-()

[McCampers]

Here is what I did. I ordered some steaks from Omaha Steaks and the large shipping styrofoam container they used to ship them in is great. It is about 28 qts so it is decent in size. They are very very thick!. I now use 1 10lbs bag of ice for the entire Fri-Sun campouts and I still have Ice left over. I recently found one of the medium size Omaha containers and I use it for yes.... Ice Cream!  :-()

I am familiar with those "disposable" coolers they use.  They are the bomb diggity, but they won't hold ice for 3 days in the North Carolina summer.  They might handle it out there in the Lone Star single digit humidity state, but here in the sultry South they ain't hittin on much.(more southern coloquialisms)