My Orca has longer ice retention, has a lifetime warranty, and is made in the U.S. Yeti doesnt have a lifetime warranty and is made in China! If it was designed in Austin Texas, shouldn't it be made in Austin Texas? Just saying...
I looked into orca. They were started by a TN guy and based in Nashville. They were made in Nashville and Ohio. Tney also make a lot of donations. I thought cool I’ll support them. So I purchased a 40qt. So then my payment comes up as Pride Sports. Apparently they were supposedly bought out. Now it’s owned by an alphabet mafia group that’s focused on the LGBTQ community and sports. Had I known that before hand I would have passed.
@@boogerracingsame here. Are all they bids sponsored by yeti?? Yeti is not even built in the USA & only have a 5 year warranty. ORCA is built in USA with USA materials backed by a LIFETIME guarantee!
Well exactly, it’s certainly no yeti. Orcas are made in the USA while yeti is made in the Philippines. Orca features more accessories then Yeti and comes with a lifetime warranty opposed to the 5 year warranty by the Third World outsourced Yeti
Seen many ice tests where the ORCA 20 outlasts the YETI 20. Also made in USA vs overseas is a big bonus for me. At the larger sizes ORCA is just as expensive as YETI though. ORCA for the win!
My orca will last literally as long temperature wise as my yeti. It also cost a bit more. Everyone not understanding why coolers cost so much apparently don’t mind adding in ice bags constantly 🤷🏻♂️ I pre-chill both of mine and before leaving to camp I add in ice from my freezer and 1-10lb bag and it’ll last a few days easily with constant use.
You accidentally referred to the Orca as the Rtic at 6:06 All good though, we all make mistakes. Absolutely love your videos and they've helped me immensely when deciding which cooler to purchase!
The handle on the orca 20 is where all the thermal loss occurs. It feels cool when you carry ice but is ICE COLD when you carry dry ice. It is practical but a design flaw when it comes to insulating performance.
Boy based on the graph it sure looks like someone opened two of these coolers early but left the yeti closed….could be the driver for the temp difference there
Speaking of the latches on the Orca, we camped with someone over the weekend that had a brand new Orca cooler and their son was unable to open the latches to get something out of the cooler by himself. Impressive ice retention over a really hot weekend, though. I will likely pick one of the smaller Orca coolers just to keep for short trips. We run an ARB fridge for most of our outings.
Pretty sure my Orca 20qt is hollow at the top. It doesn't keep ice for more than a day, inside a cool house. I've warrantied 3 and had to drill holes into what seems hollow space. Also the mesh bash on all of them seems to have been applied by a 3 year old. It looks horrible. Not what I expected for American made quality. They keep doing the warranty no issue though but still, it's annoying they don't seem to have a quality product. I'm right now in the process of getting the soft sided cooler so we'll see how it goes. Warranty on that is only 3 years and the reviews don't look good. But then again Orca 20qt has great reviews and in my experience a pretty horrible product.
Thumbnail and title are misleading- it would appear to someone sifting through thumbnails that the Orca is not a good cooler. Your video contradicts this. What the heck?
I just don't see the logic in paying the huge prices for a cooler unless you are trying to protect/cool a super valuable item for an extended period of time (maybe for an extended fishing/hunting trip or organs for transplant). If you compare to paying $100 for a standard cooler in lieu of $450, throwing in 2 bags of ice at $2 each every day for a "weekend warrior" weekend (3 days), you will get 29 additional weekends of ice just for the difference in the price of the cooler alone. Now figure you go on 6 of those weekends a year, it will take almost 5 years to see the difference "IF" either cooler lasts that long. Most working people are lucky to get 3-4 weekends of time each year.. Just do an "old timer" trick and freeze large bottles of water into sealed blocks. It lasts longer no matter what cooler you have..... BOOM! no buying ice at all. Keep one in the freezer (if available) and switch them out.
Yeti roadie is not rotomolded, it's injection molded, that's why is not made in the usa, not bear resistant and has seems. Unlike the tundra coolers which are rotomolded
Orca! Lifetime warranty and they stand by it. 4.5yrs into ownership something broke the right hinge and Orca sent a brand new one after sharing photos with them.
Some Orca coolers are made at the Igloo factory in Katy, TX. I know because I've taken the factory tour and seen it done. There is rotomolding and insulation fill which I've watched them do. No Chinese parts unless they get the plastic from China. The hinge pins, bumpers and latches could be made on the moon for all I know. One thing that impressed me since I ordered a 40qt after the tour was that mine was shipped(from Katy, TX ) in an Igloo Trailmate 50 box. It fit perfectly so I'm guessing that means that the Orca has 10 qts more insulation.
Great breakdown! Difference in performance, to me personally, seems insignificant. Bottom line is that even the worst roto cooler will outperform any standard cooler in just about every way except cost and ease of transport.
You should add the Dometic Patrol 20 to the mix. I think they are an underated company in the market, and they have an excellent value. Let me know your thoughts. Appreciate your content, it was very useful (although i still haven't decided on which 20 to get lol)
If money is no object would you go with the RTIC or Yeti? They have different form factors. Curious on your feedback on which is more versatile in the real world.
A bear would absolutely destroy that damn cooler I don't care if you got 20 padlocks on it if a bear wants in that cooler it's going to get in that cooler if you think a bear cannot get in that cooler you are sadly mistaken sir
