So I am now realising we are camping in Cornwall, and our previous camps have involved friends with a caravan, friends with a camping fridge, a pitch with a full sized fridge/freezer hire (France- best 60€ I ever spent!)
So although we have a tesco bog standard cool box (12L?) it's not big, not sure it'll be good enough to keep food/milk/ beer in. We camp yearly but not *that* often- I am sure we need something new, but I don't know what, and don't want to spend a fortune ( have read thread about fridges costing hundreds!)
Help please. Oh space is a premium too!
I've just ordered an electric coolbox from Aldi's website. I've read encouraging reviews and their 3 year warrantys and customer service have been good for me.
To be fair a Cool Box is what it is, and it's not a Fridge.
Probably the best value for money portable Fridges around at the moment are the mains only Mobicool C40 at around £150 or the Mobicool FR40 which is also 12/24v and mains at around £240.
But I guess you have read the recent post's regarding the FR40.
Quote: Originally posted by loubylou35 on 20/6/2016
So I am now realising we are camping in Cornwall, and our previous camps have involved friends with a caravan, friends with a camping fridge, a pitch with a full sized fridge/freezer hire (France- best 60€ I ever spent!)
So although we have a tesco bog standard cool box (12L?) it's not big, not sure it'll be good enough to keep food/milk/ beer in. We camp yearly but not *that* often- I am sure we need something new, but I don't know what, and don't want to spend a fortune ( have read thread about fridges costing hundreds!)
Help please. Oh space is a premium too!
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Mobicool is excellent value. Generally, electric cool boxes work off ambient temperature so if the temperature in your tent is 25, it should reduce this to 5 degrees inside the box which is the higher end of a domestic fridge temperature range (3 degrees is ideal) . If your outside temperature is say 30 then you'll be in trouble. Your food will not last and could start to go off. Keep the cool box outside of your tent and in the shade. Rarely do we get air temperatures in the UK in excess of 25 degrees so you should be fine but....if you want cold beer and safe fresh food, buy a Mobicool with a compressor. It will last you years.
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What about these cool boxes where you empty a bag of ice in the bottom? http://www.costco.co.uk/view/p/igloo-maxcold-island-breeze-62-quart-rolling-cool-box-198846
Admittedly this one is massive. But similar (says 6 days cool, what does that mean? Unopened.?)
I'm imagining buying food daily and keeping safe in box (ie bacon/ milk ) for breakfast)
We also have an icey tec. We change freezer blocks about every 24hours but actually they tend to still be pretty frozen so could do it less often. The first time we used it the meat i put in it Froze!
The important thing is to get the box cold before you leave. I'll start calling tomorrow to go away on Thursday
If you're going to shop daily then a coolbox is the way to go. We've got a Coleman Extreme which is amazingly well insulated but takes up a fair bit of space so we use it for long stays or group meet ups. We also have a Lidl powered coolbox which is a lot smaller (Aldi are about to sell a similar spec one) which runs off the 12v socket in the car or mains or you can lob a couple of cool blocks in.
We have the Coleman Extreme. It works very well with loose ice and cold (melted from ice) water. Used it at half term with ice block (freezer on site to freeze your own) and ended up changing blocks every 24 hours. In fairness I must add that as it was a communal ice block freezer the blocks were not completely frozen!
I think we have the 36 quart (small child of mine removed the label). It fits 4 pints green and 4 pints blue at each end and other stuff in the middle.
Thanks all, I can't find icey tek boxes for sale, are they called something else?
What about this? A reasonable size but not crazy big?
http://www.costco.co.uk/view/p/igloo-51-litre-54-quart-marine-ultra-cool-chest-727014
Hi, Icey Tek come from coolboxesuk.com. They are the only suppliers. Unless you find one on eBay.
As an Icey Tek owner I can confirm they are the best thing since sliced bread.
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Topic: Cool box-?
