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I bought these things a few years ago to try out to avoid having to use ice and kind of make a mess in the process.

I decided to try them out this weekend while at TDS. I figureed if they didnt work I could always run to the store and get ice. I used an igloo brand 5 day cooler I believe a 72 quart model. I put two sheets on the botoom one on each side and two on the top after I packed it. I mostly packed sodas and a little meat and food in the ice chest. The only thing frozen I put in the ice chest was one small water bottle and it was thawed out by the next day. I left the cooler sitting out in the sun during the day not really doing anything special to make it last longer. Once I got home I decided instead of unloading it to see just how long it would stay cold. So it sat in the garage and as I would get thirsty throughout the day I would go out and grab adrink out of it. I just pulled the last drink out of it and it was still plenty cold (monday night). I also froze them in out 20 year old POS fridge that barely freezes ice cubes so I didnt have the maximum freezing for them to work.

I was extremely happy with them as I didnt have to worry about melted water flying everywhere if my icechest tipped over in the truck. On long trips I will probably use a mix of these, frozen water bottles and some ice but on weekend trips they work great so I dont have to go to the store and buy a bag of ice then evrything gets soggy through out the weekend.

Those are pretty cool Matt. (no pun inteded)

I gave on Ice long ago! This is what I use. Plugs in to a power point or wall. I have let it run all night in the truck and the truck still starts right up in the morning. I've had mine for over 5 years now. Still runs good :thumbsup: Bought it at Wal-mart for $75 bucks. Best $75 bucks I ever spent ;)

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It can sit as shown or on it's back.

It also heats ....but I never use that feature.

If you want to go low tech and not use ice, try dry ice. It is especially good for weekend trips. You can moderate the temperature by how much newspaper wrapping you use. Plus you can freak people out by putting a chunk in your drink and it will boil and make fog.

If you want to go low tech and not use ice, try dry ice. It is especially good for weekend trips. You can moderate the temperature by how much newspaper wrapping you use. Plus you can freak people out by putting a chunk in your drink and it will boil and make fog.

Dry ice is some of the coolest stuff out there. The hotter the liquid you put it in, the more intense it smokes and bubbles.

where can you pick up dry ice at?

The baskin robbins down the road from us used to have it. Ithink you can get it from grocerystores as well. You may need to go in a few days earlier and special order it though.

A lot of grocery stores carry it. Though it seems more and more have stopped carrying it.

I see it in wal-mart here locally as well as all the grocery stores. We are in a huge tourist/fishing area, so they all buy it to take their fish home.

Many ice cream shops sell it too.

Another good way to use it is to keep the ice frozen. I have placed it in the bottom of a rubbermade tub, then dumped bags of ice on top of it. The dry ice keeps the regular ice frozen for the better part of two days if you let it, and that's out in the air. If you keep it closed, it'll keep ice cream bars frozen solid for days at a time. Believe it or not, one chunk of dry ice from the local CO2 distributor will keep a foam cooler (still the best for insulating) full of ice cream bars frozen solid for 4-5 days.

-Joe

You can also use 1-gallon jugs of water. If you freeze them they will stay frozen in a cooler for a couple day. They provide a water source. Remove them from the cooler and let them thaw use the melted water and replace in the cooler.

I eat dry ice.

I eat dry ice.

I don't think so. The temperatures would freeze burn the insides of your mouth in an instant, and if you were actually able to ingest it without freezing the muscles in your esophagus, it would boil so violently in your stomach that it would likely cause some permanent damage (and one helluva burp!!).

I'd pay money to see that one. LOL!! Here's the billboard:

Eats dry ice and washes it down with some liquid nitrogen!

-Joe

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I bought these things a few years ago to try out to avoid having to use ice and kind of make a mess in the process.


that stuff looks great... but where the heck do you get it from in the states?

my grocery store uses it to keep there stuff frozen in big coolers till it gets all the way up to us... wanna try something cool... chop up some dry ice into quarter size pieces and put them into a two liter bottle... then put some water in the bottle and cap the top real quick..... (IMPORTANT THIS SHOULD ONLY BE DONE OUTSIDE)..... then throw the bottle out on your lawn and it will blow up the size of a basketball and when it finally lets go... your neighbors will hear it a couple blocks away and there wont be much left for anyone to find.... (DO NOT HOLD ON TO IT.... IM SURE IT COULD TAKE YOUR HAND OFF IF IT HIT YOU RIGHT)

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I have the same cooler and 8-10 hrs is the tops for a single Optima Yellow Top. Defidently awesome. We use this one for food and one with ice for soda/beer.

I eat dry ice.
Actually, I too have consumed quarter sized chunks of dry ice (on accident)

The mucus membranes in your stomach protect you from burns, and your body is a practically limitless source of heat, so it dissolves pretty quickly.

Dry ice is only fun because it sublimates... actually, I guess that is not true, iodine sublimates too, but nobody seems to care about that.

Either way, I just wrap my food in a space-time tear near absolute zero and let the resulting black hole evaporate before I consume it. You should try it... thankfully since time also happens to dissolve at the singularity, your infintely small point of food also does not age, so it is as almost as fresh as the second you threw it past the event horizion! Horay.