Why I'm Done With Coolers! - And You Should Be Too! 

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I get that people want different things out of camping, but when I go camping, I’m perfectly fine not having ice cream lol

Silly me thought this was going to be about planning for not needing refrigeration with canned longblife and dehydrated options 😂😂 When I go camping longer than 3 days I just plan for no refrigeration required stuff. That’s essentially free as we need food regardless

Sure it seems pretty cool, but can you use it to send a fax?

I don’t think you did the math quite right to come up with 6 weeks of use to pay for itself. At $2 per bag of ice, accounting for just the $187 difference in price between the Yeti and the Iceco, it would take 14 weeks. At $3 per bag, 9 weeks. If you factor in the cost of the battery, it’s 9 months to a year to pay off. From what I can tell, the $500 Yeti is 75qt vs. 55qt for the refrigerator. That may be a fair comparison given how much space the ice takes, but I don’t know for a fact. The 58 qt Yeti is $300. So that’s more like 6 months for equal volume cooler. If you already own a cooler, it’s not just the difference in price, but the full cost that you have to save in ice before it pays off. That’s 6 months without the battery, or a year with. This is a cool setup for the right person. It might be worth considering if you’ve decided to purchase a Yeti, but haven’t pulled the trigger. But, it doesn’t pay for itself in 6 weeks of use.

Please tell me it comes in other colours than Black in the Sun?

We have some allergies/medical limits to work around in our group ... all your reasons are good and really appreciate the breakdown on costs, too, but whether on road trip or camping I think the confidence of having our own foods we know we can trust for those people would be the best thing of all! Thank you!

Who pays $500 for a basic $50 ice cooler?

I've only just gotten into camping the past year or so, and found your channel for recommendations on how to slowly upgrade my gear. This is probably the sort of luxury item i couldnt even dream of buying, but bringing friends along with me on my trips has motivated me to go out more. And while i can sacrifice the little luxuries if im solo camping, i want to make their experience just that much more enjoyable to share just how fulfilling camping can be

That looks perfect... I am a scout leader and physician... not only good for food but we have had DIabetics who needed insulin cooled for a week camping..

I had my ICECO 40 liter for almost 5 years and it's been a champion! Nice rig, BTW!

I would use this for work. I sometimes have to travel, by car, 7 to 10 hours away from home. Turning the car off at multiple hot stops, then get a hotel with a tiny fridge. By the time I get there my stuff is soggy and gross. And I have to stay for like a week wherever I end up. So this would be a massive inconvenience taken away. No more soggy sandwiches

I’d love to have one of these and would use for camping and emergencies - but uh oh, wait- how would I get my workout in if I don’t have bags of ice to smash on the dirty concrete next to the ice machine?

Love versatility of frig, freezer or both! Plus we can use SUV camping, road trips, cruising on boat, and as emergency backup in power outage for medicines & essential food.

I went with a set-power but same concept and LOVE it! Best investment ever

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This is what I've been missing for a successful car camp! Somehow pulled the trigger sooner on the roof tent than the yeti, and I'm glad I did since I got to see this video first. The new wife will definitely love to have some rocky road ice cream on the trail

I would love to have an Iceco fridge/freezer. We use our truck with a roof top tent and travel out west on weeklong trips. I would mount it under my Diamondback cover. It would also be handy for frequent power outages we typically see where we live. Thanks for all your testing and review videos. I tend to watch your vids before I buy backpacking gear because of your truthful opinions. Keep up the great work!!

And it has a light .........Very Nice touch indeed !

Would love to have one of these for my daughter. She will be spending the summer "wolfing" across the northwest and living in her 1999 4Runner. This will make her so much more comfortable and save a ton of money.

I really like the idea of a fridge vs a cooler. If nothing else the same size unit provides more room for food/drinks because you don’t need the ice and not having to restock ice on longer trips means there’s more time for activities, less gas used etc. I’m starting to get into truck camping vs my beloved backpacking and would love to have something like this as part of my set-up. As always, great video even if it’s a little commercially. I know you gotta pay the bills!

I'd definitely use a fridge like this, ice in the freezer for drinks and mixers in the side lol... Road trips are a pain w/ a cooler and the kids and the fact that this keeps a zone frozen.. Pretty sweet!

A great product But I think the real issue is how on earth can Yeti charge $500 for their cooler!

As someone who lives in whistler and only has 2 mini fridges in my place I’d be using this daily in my house. Especially during the summer heat waves. Then there’s the fact that my Tasmanian girlfriend and I are planning on driving to Newfoundland this summer to meet my family I feel like this fridge would be the perfect thing for us. It’d be a great gift for me to surprise her with.

This would be a game changer for our upcoming trip to Yellowstone this summer! You really got me thinking about ditching the cooler.

I'm a truck driver and we don't have fridges in our trucks since we do medium distance trips, this would be amazing instead of the cheap electric coolers! Then I could use on my days off when I go car camping :D

Super idea for getting out longer with young kids who require lots of snacks! Thanks for posting!

I would put this in my car and it would solve most of my travel problems. I could get groceries and be able to camp all in one go. I love it

Throwing my name in the hat. My S/O and I are planning for a cross country trip in a low budget renovation of his late-grandfather's old touring van (he was in a small band and used it to cart the instruments and his fellow old fuddy duddies around). This would make a great surprise for my S/O since he has to make his own food about 90% of the time due to dietary restrictions and we dont have a good way of carting food around. We tried buying something like this in our budget range but the power drain was too high and it was basically just a small fan on the inside that kept it 'cool'. I'd feel bad selling that peice of crap to some other unsuspecting victim. I'm skeptical of these kinds of coolers/fridges given our history, but I trust your enthusiasm for the product and you haven't led us to any poor gear choices yet!

I fortunately got a yeti fairly cheap. Own an old 30 dollar coleman cooler. Large bags of ice are 3 bucks. Fill the yeti for 12 bucks and use it to refill the coleman over a 4-5 day period. Drain the Coleman 1-2 twice a dice. Use drained water to rinse things off.

Back in the day I bought a cheap (under 100 dollars) coleman 5 day cooler. Would last for TWO weeks, IF you knew how to pack it, Dry ice, newspaper etc, and NO bags of ice to melt into a pool of floating wet junk. This was in areas like Death valley to Moab. No electronics, No smart sh*t, just good packing. Yeti is a sign of the times - their prices are an inverse reflection of, well, you know...

I would use it for keeping film cool with my food so I could shoot film on a long road trip. I’m a film photographer and worrying about film in the heat of the desert, or the humidity of the Deep South is always on my mind. This is an amazing product!

I used to buy block ice from a local fishing shop and keep 2 coolers. One for my food and one for the block of ice. Then I would just chip off however much I needed with an ice pick. Lasted way longer that way than using bags of ice

I have unfortunately chosen work over getting doors for way to long! This year I am making it a goal to not only make weekend camping trips but multi day completely off grid trips!!

If it will help keep me and my girls outdoors longer, I'm sold!

I’ve been looking for a portable fridge for the longest time and this one is perfect! I love your idea of daisy chaining battery packs to keep everything charged as you move around each day. I would use this fridge this summer as I road trip from Oregon out to Zion with a group of friends. I’m excited to get them all out there to hike the narrows and I know they’ll be excited to kick the ice and share an ice chest that we can keep powered by our car and solar energy! This is truly the future 🙏

My cousin has one, and I've seen the benefits of it. I'm definitely taking my family on more camping trips and this would be pretty fantastic to have.

Well you convinced me. That’s a pretty sweet setup. I’d use it for camping and family road trips.

I have been looking at purchasing one of these for awhile. I do a lot of camping with my family of 6 and one of these would work awesome. I also get sick and tired of purchasing ice only to dump it out only a few hours later. This would be a perfect addition to my families camping addiction.

Our family of 5 would use it for long road trips from AZ to OR and TN, and for our camping excursions every year.

I switched to freeze drying meals for our back country trip. Much easier to make food while camping, have meals my kids will actually eat and reduce the amount of time making food in less than ideal prep spaces. It’s not a cheap device, but I also use it to preserve food at home that I don’t or can’t can.

This would be awesome for our overlanding. Don't own a jackery or anything yet but the external battery pack would be sweet, and I already have great solar panels.

My family likes to go car camping, but we also do a lot of shopping out of town. this would make transporting frozen and refrigerated goods so much easier.

I would use this beauty for the many road trips I take across my state to see my wife's family, and for all my camping trips!

My theory is to spend less on the fridge and more on the battery. In my minivan camper I have a cheap mini fridge from Walmart and a huge bluetti power station. This offers more versatility in my opinion. First off, if the refrigerator breaks you can replace it almost anywhere. Second, having a bigger inverter allows more options to run other equipment like a coffee maker, or small water kettle, and third, a larger battery allows for longer runtime between charging as long as you keep power consumption to a minimum. The $100 dorm fridge only uses 55-65 watts when the compressor is on but requires minimum of 800 watts of inverter capacity to start it. My bluetti has a 1000w inverter and 1.5KW of storage capacity and you can get larger models from other brands for a similar if not lower price now. It’s also easier to keep it running at home if you wish, just plug it in. Dont be concerned about longevity either, I have had my Walmart special galanz mini fridge since August or September of 2020 and it’s still going strong even after tens of thousands of miles on NY’s abysmal roads.

Super cool cooler and a great review. I am graduating college this May and I'm moving across the country to start a job as a wildlife biologist. This position is only seasonal and I plan on moving into my car after and traveling around. This cooler would save me a lot of money and make sure my food would never go bad.

You can get an electric cooler for less than $200 , sometimes as low as $100 if you catch the right sale. Admittedly at that price they can be a bit on the small side and lack the ability to keep things frozen but if you are on a budget you still have options.

I am definitely in the dream mode of thinking through all the ways to make my 13 year old minivan convert into a mini camper for myself and my family. This ICECO APL55 would go a LONG way to filling in a foggy area in my brain on how to upgrade in the cooler department. I especially love the idea of the slide!

Just booked several weekend camping trips for my family this summer and would be great to keep my toddler's milk in something this reliable! Cooler shopping is our last remaining gear to do.

I'd surprise my wife with it. We recently bought a new house and car so we haven't been able to close on a teardrop yet. We've been patiently waiting, but she feels bad for pumping the brakes on outdoor things to build the backyard and I keep telling her it's the right thing to do. ❤

Those 12v fridges make all the difference in traveling with food. I would love one for my new teardrop I'm picking up this Fall.

I am going hiking for Spring Break with my three sons for 5 days. I would slide this right into my van and use it to keep my bacon, eggs, and milk cool for the week so we could have some nice pancakes and bacon every morning! Great review!

Wow this is really neat! I would use this for my camping trips where it would be especially useful for the hot summers in California’s Sierra’s, where even Yeti coolers don’t stay cool for very long.

This would be pretty sweet for our family road & camping trips. 4 kids means a lot of food! Seems pretty...cool!

My kids and I would definitely use this cooler on a road trip to the East Coast. haven’t seen my family in over two years and want to do the trek from the West Coast home. Would definitely save me a ton of money not having to stop for fast food and allow us to maintain healthy eating habits on the road. We would definitely use it for our summer camping trips, last summer was a total bust, and we didn’t get to go out at all because of conflicts.

This is awesome. We’ve been looking for options for our family and for scout trips that last more than a weekend.

I'm looking to outfit my small SUV for more car camping and "base camping" for more distant backpacking trails, so this would be an awesome piece of equipment for that. It would also be great on cross-country road trips and as part of an emergency kit during power outages!

I'm in, it would replace the cooler I use now to bring home frozen food during the long drive.

I’d love to use it for our car camping trips! I could also use it for the campervan conversion I am planning as well. This would be great to move from the Camper to the car when needed.

Is the APL55 Car Fridge sturdy enough to be used as a seat? You know, in case you run out of lawn chairs. But I would use the fridge when I go fishing. Great for food and drinks and if I catch any fish, to keep the fish cool/cold so it won't spoil on the drive home.

I would love to have one of these fridges. We backpack and camp at State Parks and it is a pain to run in to town for ice every couple days. It would be great for road trips as well! Not to mention, ice takes up space in the cooler. I hope I got this comment in before the contest ends.

I've got a 23 day backpacking road trip near the end of this year that would be really cool to have this in my kit. Would be a good way to avoid eating junk and peanut butter sandwiches on the driving days between destinations.

I would have loved to have this on our spring break trip last week! It would have been so nice to have for food/drinks on the 8 hour drive and camping on Peanut island in Florida. We had to ferry twice to get ice for 2 nights, and the temperature didn’t get above 80!outside. It was also my son’s birthday, so on the second ice trip we brought back ice cream in the cooler and ended up with wet ice cream mess before we could serve it.

wow! i'd use the heck outta this thing! girl's day hike breakfasts before heading out and lunches after at the trailheads, roadtrips with my husband and dogs, weekend tent camping.... heck frozen grocery getting on hot summer days!

I would use it to go camping and other outdoor activities but I could also use it at the grocery store to keep the food cold on the way home.

I’m a single grandma who loves camping and prepping. I have two acres that I am trying to build on and would use it while I’m working and camping. I have ten hungry grandkids that will be coming with me some, ice cream bars and sandwiches would keep them motivated to cut brush. I have a tip for preventing soggy food in your regular cooler, I discovered that hinged plastic containers from Amazon kept cookies dry. They snap shut and are reusable. Happy camping!

Awesome, I'd use the fridge to keep food longer than for two night camping.

This would be perfect for my weekend camping trips to the lake. Thanks for the video!

My wife and I, and sometimes our nephews, drive from Colorado to Minnesota. My wife and I also do some car camping.

Very cool ❄portable fridge. I would use this ICECO APL55 Car Fridge for camping, weekend trips to the beach, and other road trips. Thanks for the review and giveaway!

I pull around a mini camper a week and a half a year when my wife and I go on vacation to see the country. We do this on a strict budget to get the most out of our trip. This little fridge would be a game changer for us.

I will use this fridge in my Ranger for awesome car camping adventures with the family.

Hi, I would absolutely love to have this cooler, it would be incredible to be able to store anything I need in this fridge and not have to worry about going to get ice or having it melt or all of the other problems with a cooler. I love to go on road trips and this would be so useful for travelling. I am also going to college in a few months so this would also be a great thing to take with me. Every time I want to go camping or traveling this will be so handy. This will definitely motivate me to camp even more with the idea of being able to take food with me that I had to ditch before. Thank you for posting this video and showing me something I had never seen before that would really be helpful to have. My family and I would get a lot of use out of this.

Would love to use this on family road trips! We take a ton of food with us, and it’s always a chore with the cooler.

Nice but what about during the summer when vehicle is like 120 degrees…guess If camping you would remove it and when driving it would be the same charge backup

I am going to travel down the National Seashore by Port Aransas and it’s one of those trips you can’t make a quick trip back to the store for ice. This fridge would definitely come in handy!

I go camping every year with my girlfriend and anytime we go camping, she gets a little weird when it comes to food since we throw things into an ice chest. Her opinion is, “If it has been in there for longer than 2 days, the food is dead”. We’ve looking into getting a freezer like this but they are so expensive. This would be an amazing peace of mind during our camping trips and would open up a lot more options for food during long camping trips.

I'd use this for family vacations. We usually end up camping wherever we visit.

I get it, its your camping hobby, and thus your disposable hobby dollars. I can also see a use case as an emergency back up in the case of a power outage. However, with proper use and preparation using a rotomolded cooler like a yeti is far far far more economical than the video presents. We used one far larger than in this video and only bought 2 bags of ice for a total of 4 bags, for a 14 day trip. (Would have been even less if we had purchased larger bags from in town). 1. Precool the cooler - bring the cooler into your house from the attic/garage etc. then put some icepacks, like you put on a bruise, or some things are shipped with, to get the cooler to fridge temps. (later replace these with step 2) 2. Put frozen water bottles in the bottom, this is your first ice load, and by mid trip will be pleasantly cool fresh water for drinking. 3. Freeze ahead items you won't use till later in the trip, like the water it will be a huge block of cold until mid to late trip and by then will have thawed ready to be used/reheated. 4. pack the cooler as full as possible with items that are already chilled/frozen. 5 limit the times you open the cooler. 6. (optional but helpful) keep a separate cooler/container for beverages and other frequently used items. 7. If you really want ice cream in the field, have some fun and learn how to freeze it in the field. (Ice and rock salt old school, or dry ice methods new school micro gastronomy style).

I love these things so much. Picked up an Acopower on sale a few years ago and I've never looked back, I finally gave away my old cooler. It burns about 33 watts roughly 1/3 of the time, or a continuous consumption of roughly 11 watts, while holding 10°F in a 70°F room, considerably less if it's just 'fridgerating, not freezing. I replaced the obnoxious proprietary power connector with a nice standard Anderson Powerpole which is already on all my other 12-volt gear. Find the 3d-print files on Printables. As far as I can tell, the Iceco, Whynter, Acopower, Alpicool, and countless other brands all come out of the same factory, they have the same power connector and their Bluetooth apps all work with each other. One more thing about the e-cooler: Because it can do real freezing, I use it as a backup at home. Like if I go overboard when grocery shopping and can't cram everything into my normal freezer, just fire up the camping freezer for a few days until I eat my way back to size. It's useful in ways that a normal cooler would never be. Plus of course it's great on roadtrips. Sometimes in summer even if I'm not traveling with refrigerated food, I'll set it to 60° and use it to keep chocolates from melting. Just a hint of chill takes just a tiny bit of power to maintain, but it makes all the difference in the world.

I’m building a conversion van and have been doing research for a fridge solution, this would be huge to win!

This would come in handy with a large family....I will need the shopping list for 4 lunches, 3 breakfasts, and 2 dinners for FIVE people!!

I paid $270 for my Alpicool TW35 and it is extremely efficient 11.54W per hour on averaqe across my 2.5 years of ownership and yes, I've kept it running 24/7/365 with its optional snap-in battery (wont disconnect and fall off from a small bump, unlike a magnetic afterthought battery), AC, or DC from an Ecoflow. You get a lot for your money with Alpicool... dual zone, with drain plug, wire baskets, reversible lid with built in cutting board, and internal light all for less than the Yeti

What is the average hourly usage in amps of your 12V fridge ? Do you use a deep cycle battery? In Australia, we use a lot of different 12V fridge brands and some are better than others. I have a 45 liter Engel fridge powered by either the car as I drive or a 120 AH (amp hour) deep cycle battery hooked up to a 200 Watt solar panel. My battery never goes flat and gets recharged every day by the sun ☀️

This would be awesome to use on my long weekend ADK camping trips.

man, I just saw this video. super bummed I missed the giveaway. Thats an amazing fridge.

Would be a great addition to my Crosstrek overland build I am making in the next few weeks for the summer!

Our family would use that for camping, road trips, and dinners at friend's houses. We have...some dietary stuff and it's almost embarrassing the hoops and extra steps and such to eat somewhere else. Warm or soggy car food, limited space, or shopping day of before we get to their house and then the unused stuff just sitting for hours in the car while we try to enjoy our visit... We try to travel via car for visitations (9-12 hours one way) and vacations and being able to bring real food would be such a blessing. I usually don't eat or can only eat fries. Then we're spending a few hundred on eating out the whole time. Lastly, camping/hiking. With so many different needs between the 3-4 of us we end up having two coolers worth of wet food at the end of the day. Haha. It'd be an awesome thing to have!

Wow! I would use it as a car fridge as well! It would be perfect to take on our vacations to the beach and trips where we go camping!

This would be a dream in our old camper van. So sick of water getting into our food after the kids toss all of my perfectly arranged and organized food. Great to see prices coming down to a more affordable range

My 15 year old son and 13 year old daughter and I have always been tent campers. This year we are gearing up to try some backpacking and are currently working on setting up my truck as a basecamp. My son is also bike into mountain biking and we want to go farther out where he bikes with a buddy and my daughter and I chill at basecamp. I'm loving the no ice idea. I was thinking of a propane fridge...I think I like the idea of a no hassle, no pilot light, rechargeable, eco-friendly system better!

I spend 6 weeks on the road every summer for work. This would be game changing

Thanks for all the info! I would totally use this for road trips along the Eastern Sierra with my boys! I hope to afford this someday 😂

Would use this for car camping also. Tired of buying ice. Would also go well with my long term power outage prepper system with my power and solar banks. Also have a road trip to the Midwest in my future plans and this would be great for that!

I would use this for family road trips and camping trips. Also, it would be great for a nice cool drink after a long hike.

We would love to use a fridge like this for family camping trips

Awesome fridge! If I had one of those bad boys, I'd toss (jk... probably sell and not be wasteful) my RTIC and use it to store baby formula for the time being until our newborn is moved on to juice and other tasty treats. Having a baby and going camping is challenging, but it is possible! Stuff like this just makes it that much less of a challenge.

I would probably gift the cooler to my dad. He works long hours as a farmer and would appreciate a cold drink in the summer :)

This looks like an amazing product! And I loved how you put the price point into perspective when comparing it to a more standard cooler and buying ice!! I have a Syncro Vanagon (an oldie but a goodie) and love to go away for weekend camping trips here in the great PNW! Many times I'm far away from any services - I like to REALLY get away! - and so not having to pack up, head out and get more ice seems like just the thing I am looking for! A weekend I know isn't long but like you said no more ice means no more soggy food or concern about warm spots in the cooler. And to have ice cream out in the deep woods?! GAME CHANGER! Happy trails!