The easiest way to stay cold for longer

Summer is in full swing, which means that we can get our coolers out PotlucksPicnic, camping and road trip adventure. Of course we are With a cooler For one reason: we want our food and drinks to stay cold – even in the summer heat. So if you are like us, you know that there is no worse feeling than opening your cooler and finding a puddle of cold water where your ice cream was earlier.

But loudly TiktokThe days with melted ice cream are over thanks to an incredibly simple trick. The Tikok user @ana_truth posted a video of her with the text. “I don’t know who has to hear that, but you have to separate your cooler before your big summer trips. Let an ice cream sit in the cooler for at least 24 hours.

Anna uses a lifelong cooler in the TIKTOK, which has already offered ice retention for up to seven days. But also lifelong – and others Preferred cooler Retailers like YETI And recommend igloo before packing ahead.

Should you make your cooler before packing?

You may think, “But a cooler is already isolated to keep the ice cold – why would I have to cool it down?“In reality, the insulation is actually what works against it – especially if you keep your cooler in a warm place, like a garage or outside. While coolers are designed so that it is cold, the same insulation also catches heat.

The best way to keep your cooler cold longer is to cool her overnight or even better 24 hours in advance. You need a victim ice bag to cool your cooler, but it is worth it if it lasts the next bag even longer. Simply move your cooler to a room temperature location in your house, fill it with a bag of ice or dry ice (if your cool dry ice is compatible) and let it do it.

If you are ready to load it, just let the water off (you can leave the remaining ice cream out of the first bag), let another bag of ice in and pack the cooler with your food and drinks. Another professional tip is to pack cooler with already cold objects. The temperature items can also warm up their cooler because the ice is working over time to cool it. Would you like to go one step further? If you use a little one Soft cooler Or TTE, cool your bag, fill your bag and hold it sealed and in the fridge until you are ready to go. Then load it with ice cream.

Try to keep your food and drinks closer to the ground when you pack it so that you are completely surrounded by ice. Make sure to fill the cooler to the edge – every excess air inside accelerates the melting process.

Sure, the TikTokers loved the tip, and several cooler brands even supported it as an intelligent tip. But does it actually work? We put it to the test with three different types of cooler: a cooler bag for not a name brand, a hard cooler from Iglu picnic basket and a Yeti Tundra Hard Cooler. We found the following.

We tested a cooler 3 ways

To test this method, we preferred each of our coolers for 24 hours with an eight pound ice cream bag of ice cream. After the advance increase, we packed the coolers with food and drinks and another eight pound bag of ice cream. We let the coolers expose and check it until the ice has been completely melted.

Radiator bag

Let us prepare this by saying that the cooler bag that we have used no bags with a name burn, and there are certainly better cooler bags on the market for which this could actually work. With the cooler bag we use, however, the preliminary run made no difference. The ice in our cooler bag melted both during the advance process and in the actual cooling process within eight hours.

With the cooler bag it was not worth the wasted ice.

Iglu hard cooler

Iglu is one of the brands that recommends cooling your cooler for better ice bonds. According to your website, Iglu recommends that you “store the cooler in a cool place overnight before the cooler-ideal with a bag of ice on the inside to reduce the enclosed heat”.

Usually the ice cream in the IGLU is melted completely within 22 hours. However, the pre -cancellation extended the lifespan of the ice again for another eight hours. After 30 hours, the ice was completely melted.

Eight hours are a lot of time, especially if you camp or have access to another cooling source on a road trip. With this in mind, the evening process in the Iglu Hard Cooler is definitely worth it.

Yeti hard cooler

Yeti recommends that her cooler to recharge a cooler with a bag of ice cream a few hours before packing before packing.

After the 24-hour advance process, the Yeti cooler still had a ton of ice, which is nice because they get more out of the sacrificial ice bag for their money. Usually the ice in this yeti takes about 2 1/2 to 3 days (or 60 to 72 hours), but after the pre -album the ice takes 82 hours.

Regardless of whether that’s another 10 hours or 22 hours, that’s still a pretty big time. And if you consider that the 24-hour vorkill does not use a lot of ice cream, you don’t have to buy too much ice cream if you are ready to pack the cooler. Overall, it is definitely worth it to suggest your Yeti-Hard Cooler before you get up.

The end result

Ultimately, this preliminary cancellation method for hard cooler works exceptionally well. It may be a trouble to remember pulling your cooler out of the garage the night before, but it is definitely worth it if you do it.

We know that we buy an additional bag of ice cream from which you are essentially not always ideal. So if you don’t want to waste ice cream, bring your cooler to the night at least before you want to use it. In this way, it begins from room temperature instead of the hot temperatures that were opposite outside. Or pack the cooler with reusable cold packs from the freezer and then replace it with freshly frozen ice cream bag or ice cream while packing.

It is also important to note that the way in which it is in use and where it is in use will flow into the duration of the ice. Your cooler should be packed with about 2/3 ice cream and 1/3 food or drinks. Remember to keep the water in your cooler as the ice melts because this cold water keeps the remaining ice frozen frozen. Just keep open food and meat out of the water. And try to place your cooler in a dark, cool place. The sun heats the cooler and lets your ice melt faster. So if you don’t find a shadow, wrap the cooler in towels or a tarpaulin to keep it cool.

All in all, Tikkok did it again with another Stellarer HackAnd we know Summer recipes.