If you enjoy adventure then you ought to have a cooler that is fitted to last for long outings. Without it, your adventure will end without any cold beers to celebrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether you have a cheap mediocre cooler or an expensive one, we have some tricks that will make it better in all ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No matter how high quality your cooler is, there will always be room for improvement. So let us look at these cool cooler hacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You will find aluminum bubble wraps on Amazon (link). For example, Reflectix aluminum bubble wraps. These aluminum wraps work excellent as an insulator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even though the freezer is lined with thick heat-insulating foam, it is better to have another additional insulating layer that will retain the ice more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just buy a roll of aluminum bubble wrap or just a roll of aluminum wrap and line it at the inside of your cooler. You can use adhesive to stick it inside. Line it properly and make sure that there are no gaps. Don\u2019t forget to line the lids, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is always better to prepare for your outing from the day before going out. As they say, better preparation gives you better results. So start preparing your cooler from the day before going out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simply take your empty cooler and put it in the freezer. Leave it there for a day or 12 hours. This will cool down the core temperature of the cooler. As a result, the ice you put inside of it will not have to use any additional energy for cooling the cooler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This will significantly improve your cooler\u2019s ice retention performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The coolest cooler is the one that lasts longer and accompanies you to the end of the adventure. To make your cooler last for that long, you should add a couple of ice bricks or enough ice bricks to cover the bottom of the freezer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This will give the ice cubes on top of it a solid power source for retaining themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can use dry ice bricks for the best results. They will last for about a week. But for an average three days outing, use regular ice bricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is scientifically proven that salt keeps water and ice cool (That\u2019s why they use it on the ice that keeps the ice cream). So if you add salt to the water and make ice cubes with them, they will stay cool for long. Even after melting, they will stay relatively cool for longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So do yourself a favor and add salt to your ice cubes and ice bricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some foods need to be cool and dry at the same time. Getting in contact with ice will ruin them. They may lose their crispness or get soggy. You don\u2019t want to open your cooler and find a sub-sandwich soaked in cold water. That will ruin the taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best solution is to create a dry zone. How will you do that? First store all the foods that are properly canned and won\u2019t matter if they get soaked up in icy water. Then put a poly-sheet on top of them and place the food that needs to be dry on top of the poly sheet. You can also add a refrigerator grill on top of the poly for a more strong construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alternatively, there are cooler accessories like baskets and nets to organize your cooler properly. You can find them on Amazon (link)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If all the foods in the cooler need to stay in a dry condition, then there is one smart thing you can do. That is to use balloons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rather than throwing ice cubes in the cooler, load it with balloons that have ice cubes inside of them. Or you can fill the balloons with water and freeze them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There will indeed be water outside the balloons but it will be significantly less than using ice cubes. But you will have to maintain a little caution here. Do not put anything sharp with the balloons, or it will burst the balloon and the food will get wet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are a DIY person, then you will love this hack. All you need to do is make a one-stop tour of the hardware store. Pick some PVC pipes that are in an adequate size to be fitted in your cooler. Buy enough PVC pipe blockers. For each PVC ice pack, you will need two blockers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now simply take a PVC pipe. Block one side with a blocker. You can add adhesive for this if you want but that won\u2019t be necessary. Then fill the pipe with water and add another blocker on this side, Now freeze them in the freezer and your PVC pipe ice packs are ready. They are reusable. You can spray-paint the PVC pipes and make them look cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imagine how cool it will be to slide your cooler on wheels rather than carrying it around? It is one of the unspoken problems with hard shell coolers. They are so heavy that it becomes very difficult to carry them around by yourself. It needs two or three people to carry them around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While there are many coolers available in the market that feature wheels like the RovR cooler, you can do some DIY here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just purchase a set of trolley wheels and add them. We recommend you watch a few Youtube tutorials before doing it. Or take the help of an expert. Otherwise, you may end up damaging the cooler real badly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n