refrigerated ice chest

[Salty]

I need a way to transport ice cream in my truck for one hour without any melting. Y'all think those Yeti coolers would work using dry ice? The Tundra 155 qt. is about the right size. Anybody got any better ideas....I'm listnin'.

[Bluechip]

Either a Yeti or a small freezer and Honda generator..

[Bluechip]

How much ice cream and how often?

[Bluechip]

Here is another option also......

[Salty]

Originally Posted by Bluechip

How much ice cream and how often?

Don't know exactly how much but it'll be weekly.

[fishinpox]

i bring frozen trout back to ohio everytime i fly home i pack it in a small cooler with dry ce and gel packs it stays hard as a rock ... but its also no in the back of a truck in the sun . make a test run buy a gallon of ice cream and get a decent ice chest put some dry ice in it and let it sit n the truck cant hurt to try before you drop that kinda coin on a yet

[meaux fishing]

yetis are awesome coolers i have one in my boat and i have fished with the same ice two days in the middle of the summer. We transport our beef in freezers in the back of a truck. Got a power inverter installed under the seat and can run at least one 15 cubic foot chest freezer and im pretty sure we have run two but i might be wrong about that. just run an extension cord and plug it in and you are good to go

[Bluechip]

Originally Posted by Salty

Don't know exactly how much but it'll be weekly.

If you go the Yeti route, see if you can test drive one first. That's a lot of moolah to put out for it not to work. I would also make sure that the ice cream is frozen "hard" from your wholesaler. If not you may have some issues.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Salty

I need a way to transport ice cream in my truck for one hour without any melting. Y'all think those Yeti coolers would work using dry ice? The Tundra 155 qt. is about the right size. Anybody got any better ideas....I'm listnin'.

Keep it out of the sun will really help. Drive faster and work faster!!!!!

Yeti coolers are suppost to be "top of the line"......so maybe with dry ice it might work. Maybe you could call Yeti to see if they have any experience. Before spending the money on Yetis.......You might just try using dry ice in a cooler that you have at the house and see how that works. If it melts too much.....you will just have to eat it at home.

You may want to consider getting 2 smaller coolers. You may be able to handle something smaller......a lot easier to get them to the rooms where the vending machines are located. I guess there must be several places in the building where you have the machines.

Do you know any of the other vendor's in your area and maybe you could find out what they do.

Have you poured the concrete.....Pictures?

[LaAngler]

best icechest on the market here..

http://www.frigidrigid.com/solar/solar.htm

[wtretrievers]

Dry Ice will definitely work, if you leave it too long it will be hard as a rock!

Had 120qt icecest (white igloo) full of ice with a block (6"x6") of dry ice in the chest also. Ice stayed for over a week! The ice cubes froze together & had to use a transom saver to bust it up.

[southern151]

Used dry ice for my beef that I took to Sturgis in 06. It didn't work too well at first but then I threw a little water on top and it nearly freezer burned the beef! I stayed up there for a week and had two blocks of dry ice in there that made it clear back to S. LA! Also, that was in a regular Igloo cooler...Nothing fancy.

[RaginCagin]

Dry ice will keep it frozen in a styrofoam icechest, doesn't have to be a over priced yeti.

[longsidelandry]

Originally Posted by RaginCagin

Dry ice will keep it frozen in a styrofoam icechest, doesn't have to be a over priced yeti.

x2, that's how they used to send us our frozen groceries offshore, just some dry ice in a styrofoam ice chest.

[carrolhebert]

We get our groceries offshore in a cardboard box line with styrofoam peices with dry ice the dock puts that in a metal box and sent it out to us ans sometimes it ride the back deck of the boat for two days before we get it. If you have room to pre freeze the icecream before packing it up you shouldn't have a problem.

[RaginCagin]

Originally Posted by carrolhebert

We get our groceries offshore in a cardboard box line with styrofoam peices with dry ice the dock puts that in a metal box and sent it out to us ans sometimes it ride the back deck of the boat for two days before we get it. If you have room to pre freeze the icecream before packing it up you shouldn't have a problem.

Doesn't the ice cream have to be pre frozen already to be "ice cream"? If not it would be milk. Just messing with ya.

[Salty]

Although I've never used dry ice (in fact, never even seen it), I'll give it a shot. Where can you get dry ice in the Slidell area? And don't tell me at the dry ice house.

[mikedatiger]

Salty, the dry ice, cheap styrofoam route will definitely work. I have received several gifts of Omaha Steaks and that is how they pack everything, and the contents are always frozen solid. Even had one package sitting out in the heat for 2 days as we weren't home for a delivery and everything was still frozen.

Some grocery stores will stock dry ice from penguin.

try this link - hopefully it helps
http://www.airgas.com/customer_servi...ionType=DryIce

[mikedatiger]

actually, here you go - both Rouse's supermarket and Wallyworld have it...

http://www.airgas.com/customer_servi...ionType=DryIce

[calcutta37]

dry ice is like -109 degres 5 pounds will last 2 days in a cardboard box wrapped in news paper thats what i would do