Who has an ice chest that keeps ice for a day or longer in the summer heat?

Christopher

Christopher

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The same thing every couple years or so, looking for another ice chest as the old one is falliing apart.

I would probably still be looking for a better kind anyway as this does not keep the ice for more than a few hours in the hot Texas sun while working and taking drinks every so often. I don't need it to keep the drinks cold for a couple days but after a few hours the ice is melted and the drinks start warming up. Sometimes you are stuck on a site all day and cannot leave to go get more ice so that is why I would like to find something better that will keep things cold all day long.

I look around at the stores and they are only about 1" to about 1.5" thick no matter how big the capacity is.

I had one that was called Max Cool years ago and it did a great job at keeping ice and drinks for at least a day but it was stolen out of the back of my truck. This one was gray in color and I don't remember what company made it.

There is one brand out there that I have seen, it is called the Yeti and it sells for $200 on up depending on the size and colors and hunters tell me that it does keep ice for days no problem, even in the hot Texas sun but I cannot see spending that kind of money for keeping drinks cold. For hunters keeping meat cold until they go home I can understand but not just for drinks.

I was even thinking about finding an ice chest that would fit into a larger ice chest and that might work, just have a hard time emptying the water from the smaller ice chest unless there was a lot of room on the side to get your hand in there when it is full. This might be the best way so far but I am still looking for a good ice chest instead of trying 2 of them.

Have any of you bought a thick-walled ice chest lately? If so, where can you buy it or order it online?

Thanks.
 
Costco has a freezer for 250 on line 7 cubic feet . Picked it up a month ago . We try all different methods . Freezing drinks works well. We have sheets of ice cubes and rap the coolers. Gatorade is tax deductible !
 
Diamond Jim said:
Costco has a freezer for 250 on line 7 cubic feet . Picked it up a month ago . We try all different methods . Freezing drinks works well. We have sheets of ice cubes and rap the coolers. Gatorade is tax deductible !
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That's what I like to do it take the bottles frozen or gallon


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Christopher said:
The same thing every couple years or so, looking for another ice chest as the old one is falliing apart.

I would probably still be looking for a better kind anyway as this does not keep the ice for more than a few hours in the hot Texas sun while working and taking drinks every so often. I don't need it to keep the drinks cold for a couple days but after a few hours the ice is melted and the drinks start warming up. Sometimes you are stuck on a site all day and cannot leave to go get more ice so that is why I would like to find something better that will keep things cold all day long.

I look around at the stores and they are only about 1" to about 1.5" thick no matter how big the capacity is.

I had one that was called Max Cool years ago and it did a great job at keeping ice and drinks for at least a day but it was stolen out of the back of my truck. This one was gray in color and I don't remember what company made it.

There is one brand out there that I have seen, it is called the Yeti and it sells for $200 on up depending on the size and colors and hunters tell me that it does keep ice for days no problem, even in the hot Texas sun but I cannot see spending that kind of money for keeping drinks cold. For hunters keeping meat cold until they go home I can understand but not just for drinks.

I was even thinking about finding an ice chest that would fit into a larger ice chest and that might work, just have a hard time emptying the water from the smaller ice chest unless there was a lot of room on the side to get your hand in there when it is full. This might be the best way so far but I am still looking for a good ice chest instead of trying 2 of them.

Have any of you bought a thick-walled ice chest lately? If so, where can you buy it or order it online?

Thanks.
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Keep the plug on the small cooler open. At the end of the day, open the plug on the large cooler to drain. I do the frozen waters also Art. I freeze half of the waters and they keep the unfrozen bottles cool. By mid afternoon, the frozen ones are mostly meleted and so cold they make your throat hurt...LOL
 
Round water jugs keep the longest by far, there are some large ones too.
 
tomtucson said:
They still selling the frozen water?
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Around here they do, we call it ice...

Coleman made the Max Cool ice chests. I have seen a variety of chests, right now there is an ice chest at Costco that would probably be what you want. I don't remember the price though.
If you want your ice to last longer, by a block and a bag. The block will melt far slower, so it will last longer. You might be surprised at how long a bag of ice will last with a block.
 
There is a youtube video I found where a restaurant company did a comparison on the different high-dollar ice chests and it shows that the Coleman Extreme 6 day keeps the ice about a day or two shorter than the Yeti and other expensive kind so I think I will look for the Coleman Extreme to see if I can get it here locally.

I think I will also try the blue ice things to see if they help any and if they don't make a difference, I will try freezing bottles of water to give that a try.

Like I mentioned, I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars as the ice chest will probably get stolen out of my truck, even with cables or chains it will be gone so this way if I lose something that is only $60 or so, it will not be so bad. I will also spray paint the company name on it all over as a deterrent.
 
Christopher said:
There is a youtube video I found where a restaurant company did a comparison on the different high-dollar ice chests and it shows that the Coleman Extreme 6 day keeps the ice about a day or two shorter than the Yeti and other expensive kind so I think I will look for the Coleman Extreme to see if I can get it here locally.

I think I will also try the blue ice things to see if they help any and if they don't make a difference, I will try freezing bottles of water to give that a try.

Like I mentioned, I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars as the ice chest will probably get stolen out of my truck, even with cables or chains it will be gone so this way if I lose something that is only $60 or so, it will not be so bad. I will also spray paint the company name on it all over as a deterrent.
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We have the coleman extreme, It does ok you will still have to buy ice on the really hot days to keep it topped off. Here is a link to a cooler that claims to keep ice for 10 days the price is crazy though http://www.thebestcooler.com/frigid-rigid/
 
Thanks, I saw their website and their prices are way up there like the Yeti and some others over $250.00 each.
 
I save my water bottles and fill and freeze them.....Then line the bottomn of the ice chest and keep crushed ice on top...Last awhile on a hot day as long as you dont open and shut all day......
 
Yeti coolers are awesome, I've got like a 120 or 150 qt marine cooler that keeps ice for a couple days at least, I can fit like 5-30# striped bass in it plus ice, I love it but it's huge. I do have an 60+ qt igloo that has wheels so I use it a lot and I just emptied the beers today from a camping trip this weekend and the ice melted as of yesterday but the water was still frigid and I loaded it with ice Sunday morning.
 
What about putting rock salt in with the ice.I remember my grandmother use to do that when she would make homemade ice cream.
 
Here's something really strange. We had a standard gray Walmart cooler that we could take to the lake out here and ice would stay in it all day in temps up to 120 degrees.

Yet, we used that same cooler and kept it in the trunk of the car on our trip across the states in 2011 and once we passed the middle of Texas we couldn't keep ice in that thing more than a few hours. The temperatures were actually cooler as we went east, but the ice melted faster. By the time we got to Florida we just about gave up and quit buying ice altogether.

Maybe you guys have that union ice down south that only works for a while then quits due to some regulation or something.

I wonder why that happened?
 
That must be it Tony.....UNION ICE....... cost a lot of money, is not worth a damn, does not work long at all, always trying to get more money out of your pocket for the same amount of measley work, if it is too cold outside it does not want to come out and work much and when it is very hot outside it just melts like most union wusses.....cannot take the real heat of doing a real job (aka real work)...... hahahahahahaha
 
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