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#6 Pre-cooling. If you have access to a big freezer put your cooler in it for a day. Use a wedge to keep your cooler lid cracked open. My brother owns a restaurant. I leave my cooler in his walk in freezer overnight before I pack for a camping trip.
@@evelynsaungikar3553 Cool just curious haha we do make some make ahead recipes sometimes, but I do really enjoy cooking certain things fresh out there like burgers, or bacon, or a really good steak! 😍 Ugh man I’m hungry now. 😂 But yeah absolutely, everything really does always taste better when you’re outside. 💯😎😊🤙🏽
From experience, I can say that foam insulation in the cooler lid is not worth the trouble. There's a very simple reason it doesn't make much of a difference. Coolers have little to no insulation in their lids because heat rises. The lid is there so wind can't accelerate evaporation and to keep dust and dirt out. It's just more effective to keep the cooler in dedicated shade. If the cooler in direct sun the foam will help a little, but it's better just to cover it with a reflective space blanket or Refletix insulation.
Definitely agree the reflectix is really great. That’s why it is in this video. 😎 And absolutely, the common sense of keeping it out of the sun and other things like that are super important of course. Here’s the interesting thing though… You said coolers don’t have foam in the lids for a reason, and the cheap ones don’t, but if you cut open the most expensive top of the line coolers that perform the best? Like a Yeti for example? You will 100% find a thick foam insulation around the entire cooler including the lid. I’ve seen them cut open. That being said, it is a much denser higher quality foam then you might be able to fabricate using the spray can. So, like you said it may not be worth the effort when you have other easier things you can do to help keep it cold. It’s just one of many ideas that have been said to help improve a cheap cooler with not much proof of how much it actually does or doesn’t. If you’re experience tells you it’s not worth the trouble, that’s what you have to listen to. 😎🤙🏽 Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching 👊🏽😊
Would adding a Styrofoam board to the bottom of the lid help with temperature retention. I've seen the expensive coolers being cut open. It looks like Styrofoam because of the white color.
Using physics to your advantage, why not command strip some "blue ice" or reusable ice packs to the lid, warm rises and cool descends... Put the cool at the top of the cooler! 👍
Best hack I ever came up with (IDK, I never saw it on YT when I thought of it): DIY styrofoam box. Go to a hardware store, get some sheets of styrofoam, a sizable cardboard box, and a couple trash bags. Measure the styrofoam to fit a box in the box (all sides plus a lid). Use 1 bag for ice, and one for food. Boom. I have one I’ve been using for 4 years now.
I buy an extra Styrofoam cooler and fill it with ice and drinks. use this one only for drinks and it will cut down on opening and closing your main cooler.
Sweet yeah that makes sense. 😊🤙🏽 The cardboard does ok when it’s in the little plastic compartment or when you use the frozen water bottles for ice so there isn’t any melted water in the cooler, but we bring the eggs already scrambled in a bottle most of the time. If not, since this video was made we have also found a bunch of plastic egg cartons on Amazon, one is by Coghlan's and is specifically for camping and holds six eggs, but there are a lot of em to pick from that are bigger if need be. You know those plastic ones you can buy to organize your eggs in your fridge? Works great! 😃
@@WhereWeWild If it works for you great. I had a camper with a built in ice box that drained the excess water outside so the water never touched the food, but after a few days I couldn't lift the carton without it tearing itself apart. I also bought one of those plastic egg cartons 2nd hand and the holes were too small for my eggs and I haven't tried again.
@@WhereWeWild Small note - there are small and large plastic egg cases. The large ones worked much better for us, with typical XL eggs in the market today.
If you have a cooler that is opened and closed a lot you can reinforce the connection of the lid to the body of the cooler by installing an extra pair of hinges from the manufacturer. They're usually available as spare or replacement parts.
Very helpful, thanks! I like to use dollar store gallon water and freeze those, they last longer and they have the sun reflector & epoxy mostly everything!
Also, place your cooler off the ground.. foam pad works.. if you can, take your frozen items and put them in a separate container.. like a smaller cooler that fits inside.. we have a small cooler that put inside our large one.. worked well.. Also, make sure your cooler doesn't have a huge air space inside.. use a towel to take up the space you're losing when removing items..
I also make ice in large tupperware containers and use those blocks of ice in my larger coolers. Block ice will last much longer than cubes and I can chip off a chunk or two fro my evening toddies!
I saw a guy do foam in the lid hack on two identical coolers here on RU-vid. The cooler that didn't have the hack kept ice longer. The consensus in the comments that the air is a better insulator than the foam which actually creates a heat sink.
Thanks glad to hear it! 😃🤙🏽 And yeah you don’t have to spend a million dollars on the top of the line everything to get the job done. 😎 Hope you have a safe and super fun vacation! 😃 Thanks for watching! Stoked you’re enjoying the content!
The expanding foam wont cure fully in the lid. I cut one open after 2 years and it was still partially liquid. Only noticed it when it was really hot out and it started to leak.
@Where We Wild it was great stuff expanding foam insulation. It didn't melt, it never cured as it was in a now airtight lid. I contacted great stuff and the insulation needs some air to fully cure.
@@rangerbravo Yeah it takes 8 hours to cure I believe so I let ours sit over night before sealing the holes up. Also the stuff does melt at 240 degrees so it is possible if it’s super hot out and left in say a car in direct sunlight or something with no ice in the cooler for example. But yeah that’s crazy man, ours hasn’t shown any signs of that happening at all.
@@WhereWeWild Im guessing they are trying to say that the foam quickly closed up the holes, making them airtight, and preventing air from assisting the foam deeper down to cure.
We just bought our first tent. You guys should make a video for beginners on setting up a campsite and stuff that beginners to tent camping may not know. You guys seem to know a ton!
Nice! And thanks really appreciate it! 👊🏽😊 We kind of run through all that in our “What do you really need to bring camping” video, did you see that one? But also maybe we can do one where we are actually setting up in the moment… 🤷🏻♂️😊 Thanks for watching and thanks for the nice comment 😊🤙🏽
Nicely done the way you guys trade off and you took a simple cooler and made it more important like a generator would be a primary piece of equipment in a blackout. A cool drink and food are important for survival, provides comfort, better health and motivation. And with your improvements and added items you made it more convenient for camping, emergencies or use for any event. I like the lights and the thermometer. I was just thinking you could still add wheels to the bottom of the cooler.
Lost power for 11 nights once due to a bad hurricane and the cooler became the only refrigerator we had so. Definitely learned a lot from that experience. Thanks for the nice comment! 👊🏽😊
If you don't want to "waste" foam out of the holes, keep a small spray bottle of water, once it is protruding from the hole, spray the surface of the foam with water and it will cure it instantly.
Pull the plug out of cooler lid. Use fine white styrofoam balls ( walmart or hobby lobby) and foll the lid. Takes awhile but its CLOSED CELL so it works 10x better than spray foam. Its air activated so it will not expand right. I even called the company when it didnt work so make up your own mind
I used the tricks no 1, 5 & 6. Can hold up for 3d2n camping. On the third day, some of the water bottle still froze. I wanna try the insulation tricks and add a lock for better seals. Thank you fir the video.
4 to 6. And depending on how hot it is, or how often you open your cooler, they usually last us 2 to 4 days maybe. Give or take depending on the situation. Way better than bags of ice that’s for sure. 🤙🏽
Haha when I first glanced at this comment I was thinking it was going to say condensation in a tent cause that’s always an issue 😁 On the cooler huh!? Hmm. Are you using normal ice that melts into a pool on the inside, or using frozen water bottles? We use the frozen water bottles method and idk if we ever really had a problem with condensation. 🤔
@@robertneville2022 Hmmm that’s interesting. Jeez idk I’m honestly going to have to look into that! I’m curious if it just might be that particular cooler or something else that’s going on.
If you’re getting condensation on the outside of your cooler, it means that it is not fully sealed and the cold is escaping and meeting the warmer outside air. It may have a leak or just not have thick/insulated enough walls.
@@CheckeredZebra14 mucho grandi gracious I'll try the putting reflcitx in the cooler Or just stop being cheap and get up off my wallet and buy a yetie instead of a Wal-Mart coleman 🤣
A piece of webbing like from an old tow strap or even scraps of leather can be used as replacement hinges. Just remove the old broken hinges and screw in place using the original screws and holes. You most likely will never have to replace them.
Thanks! Appreciate you watching! 👊🏽😃 Really glad you are finding them useful! Yeah some are getting old already we’ve been doing this for almost 3 years now! 😃 Crazy time flies! But yeah we put a brand new one out every week 🤷🏻♂️😊🤙🏽 Thanks again, really appreciate the kind comment. ☺️
Cool video! This will save alot of money. Buy a cheaper cooler and make it into one that would cost alot more money. Would love to see a cooler test between one dressed up and one not. Just a thought. Keep'em coming guys!!
Thanks! Yeah this stuff works pretty well! Haha we actually were saying that would be a cool idea, only problem is have to buy the expensive cooler first! 😂😁
Hmm that’s interesting. Not 100% sure exactly how you mean to do that, I’d be curious to see it. 😊 Having the motion sensor light is pretty sweet though I must say, definitely give that a shot if you haven’t. 😎🤙🏽
DON'T use the spray foam. The dead air space in the cooler lid is a better insulator than the foam. Heat will transfer through the foam MUCH faster than it will with the air space.
I must respectfully disagree. 🤷🏻♂️😊 If you cut open a top of the line $400-$500 Yeti cooler you will find foam in their lid. And those things stay COLD. There are plenty of RU-vid videos that show it. Before making this video we did as much research as we possibly could. Respect your opinion though, and whatever works the best for ya is the way to go! 👊🏽😊 Thanks for watching.
Actually not sure brother haven’t been there in awhile. I would imagine there is though. We hit the dam for a few hours this past weekend and there was a grass line up there making some baits tough to throw. Definitely going to hit the goon soon and see what’s happening there.
@@WhereWeWild yo brother just wanted to let you know the Goon is nice and clean not flooded anymore at all, no grass and clear water you could throw anything, went by Wednesday
@@NOFXRamon Yeah I heard they recently sprayed weed killer chemicals in the goon 🤦🏻♂️ Definitely not good for the fish. But cool glad you went did you catch anything?
@@wmscottd Home Depot 100%! IKEA probably has something similar though. www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-27-Gal-Tough-Storage-Tote-in-Black-with-Yellow-Lid-HDX27GONLINE-5/205978361 😊🤙🏽
"if you use a drill you can strip them" I've got at least 15 years experience using drills to put screws into plastic and it only took me like 12 to learn how to not strip plastic. Now I use an impact.
Thanks 😃🤙🏽 Hahaha yeah maybe if you leave it open for long periods of time, but you never want to do that with a cooler anyway because you want to keep that cold air in there. 🥶😊
If you take some painters tape and tape around the lid where you're going to drill before you drill your holes and this will make cleanup next to none and take you a small diameter tube like for fish tank Airline attached to your can and you can go from one end all the way to the other put two holes obviously in diagonal from each other go from one end pull the hose to the other then do opposite end same way should take care of the whole lid the tube works really well
@@WhereWeWild There are vids debunking this myth. The expensive coolers are much thicker and is why they cool better. They use foam to support the hollow construction. Heres one debunk vid: There's a part 2 as well. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vn9TSTDDkJo.html Adding foam boards to the inside will work as it increases wall thickness. I use the method below and is extremely effective. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L7AJgDVhmw4.html
I must have missed the "hacks" part of this video. That reflective insulation will reflect thermal heat energy, but will do nothing but trap bacteria in your cooler. It has no insulate properties. Have a good day
Sorry you didn’t enjoy the video, we find all these things very useful but hey to each their own. 🤷🏻♂️😁 End of the day it’s a RU-vid video about coolers so… lol not a big deal. Thanks for the comment, we appreciate the support. Have a good day as well😊🤙🏽
@@larryhunter8245 yeah, takes up a lot more space, more expensive, harder and messier to cut and absorbs moisture. would also need a handle to pull it out since it's rigid. put whatever you want in. No one said reflective insulation was the best insulator.
Sealed air Thermal conductivity ( W/(m·K) ) is 0.026, and foam is 0.033🤪en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_conductivity . in other word, sealed air is a better insulation ✌. As long as the lid is sealed , no need to spray foam into it.
@@piratekhomeNah man… haha check out the specs on one of their most popular coolers the tundra, foam. Regardless though, if you don’t think foam works? Don’t use it. 🤷🏻♂️😂🤙🏽
You try to sound smart, but you are so wrong. Thermal transfer, my man, perfectly trapped air in aluminum foil, will be less affective than a sheet of foam. The reason is the multiple layers of air within the foam. Thus, the great stuff air pockets. Go back to school.
