Keeping Food Cool

For many years I was fortunate to have one of those truck size actual refrigerators in the trucks I have been in. Now that I am with a different company and do not have one I had to go to plan B. I immediately dismissed getting one of those 12 v ersatz fridges because they don't cool things down enough for my liking and stop working altogether in a relatively short time. So I went out and bought a 35 quart Coleman Extreme ice cooler and it is working just fine.

The first thing I did was to connect a small hose to the water outlet plug and have the end of it sticking into a water jug for drainage. This means that I don't ever have to touch the cooler to drain it as I have it strapped into my passenger seat and I leave the valve open all the time. I just have to empty the water jug and that's it. This 35 qt cooler is also low enough so that it doesn't block my view of the right side convex mirror either.

It took about 2.5 small bags of ice to fill it initially and I don't need another bag until every second day. Even then, there is still plenty of ice in the lower part of the cooler so I could even wait one more day before filling it up if I had to, but I like plenty of ice around all my food so I go with adding every other day. The temp inside has been staying around 40 degrees (and lower) measured at the top of the food, no matter how hot it is outside. All in all, I am pleased by how this is working out. Not as good as a regular fridge, but better than anything else I could probably come up with.

 

Well that sure is news to me that the Koolatron worked so well and that is good. I am out for at least 14 days so there is no hassle for me with the cooler.