2021-02-06, 11:26 AM
The CO2 gas rolling out of your cooler the first time you opened it would probably look pretty neat .... too bad the ice melted.
Mojave's point about filling old bottles with water and freezing those is a good one. One of my camping buddies fills big twist-top Rubbermaid containers with water and freezes, so he gets the advantage of block ice but when it melts he can see it for thermal mass (as Mojave said), plus it doesn't get everything wet. AND ... he can drink it.
Not sure what everyone else's cooler bottoms are like, but drinking melt ice out of mine wouldn't be my first choice for hydration.
Mojave's point about filling old bottles with water and freezing those is a good one. One of my camping buddies fills big twist-top Rubbermaid containers with water and freezes, so he gets the advantage of block ice but when it melts he can see it for thermal mass (as Mojave said), plus it doesn't get everything wet. AND ... he can drink it.
Not sure what everyone else's cooler bottoms are like, but drinking melt ice out of mine wouldn't be my first choice for hydration.