I've got an Igloo Maxcold 50 and used it for the first time last month.
It is excellent! The boss of my local gave me a big bag of ice which filled the coolbox to probably just over a third full. I then put my food for the weekend on top of the ice. I had an excellent weekends camping. When I got home I removed what little food was left and placed the coolbox in my hall in direct sunlight. My house gets pretty warm even without heating!
Six days after putting ice in the box there was still plenty left in there. It was at this point that I tipped the ice away and cleaned the coolbox out. With a top up of ice every now and then I see no reason why you should not be able to go away for an extended break.
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We've managed a week easily with both the Igloo Maxcold and the Coleman Xtreme. It's just a matter of adding more cold stuff, ice or evdn frozen food, to keep them topped up. Also as they empty, filling the space with some insulating material helps too, I ise some of that sheep packing material that TV's come wrapped in. Works a treat.
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------------- Christine
2014
April -
BunRoy Fort William 3 sleeps
April / May
Invercaimbe Arisaig 4 sleeps
Bleatarn Brampton tbc July
yes we have a Maxcold igloo and if I pack frozen bacon, burgers and chicken etc....on Friday , then the food is still mainly frozen by sunday - the key is to keep the lid down and when you go to get somethign out - do it quickly and keep the lid open for only a minimal amount of time.
if you go away for longer than weekend, keep topping up with other frozen stuff - I use small frozen bottles of water and swop with my ice packs (whilst the ice packs are freezing) and swap each day.. it really does keep things cold/ frozen if you look after it .
We have one and used it last year and found the food stayed chilled for days - the only thing we found was that we put ice in to keep things cold but then we wanted it for our drinks so found that we were often in and out which was not the best idea - so if you using it for food don't put your beer in.
Before you use it (chill for about 24 hours) you need to chill the box down - we found that freezing some 2ltr pop bottles of water, put these in and then fill with chilled water cools it down then all you need to do is empty the water give it a quick wipe to dry it and then fill with ice packs, fozen and your chilled food.
You can use ice if you wish but I use a combination of freezer blocks and frozen 1 litre bottles of water. I pre-chill it the night before we go, again using frozen bottles of water - 1 or 2 will do. Then just before we leave I add the blocks, frozen water and frozen or chilled food to it. If there's any room left I use some sheet polystyrene, like they pack new TV's in, to fill the space.
We've done 8 days only swapping a couple of ice blocks nearer the end of the time. I make sure any new stuff that goes in is chilled or frozen if at all possible.
Excellent piece of kit, I'm not sure I read the instructions anyway.
------------- Christine
2014
April -
BunRoy Fort William 3 sleeps
April / May
Invercaimbe Arisaig 4 sleeps
Bleatarn Brampton tbc July
I had a Coleman Extreme, sold it when I gave up camping, now back camping again hoping to buy another or an igloo.
I put ice cubes in small freezer bags and also iceblocks, cans and bottles of frozen water or squash, frozen food, dairy food, etc into Coleman cooler. Some bottles frozen water, cans and fruit/vege went into a separate small coolbox. It was easy to transfer cans and a bag of ice once a day to the small box and refill the space. The Coleman still had ice left after a week.
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Topic: Anyone used an igloo maxcold 50?
