I don't know if I mentioned this before but I won a Yeti cooler at work a few months ago. Well, sort of. There was a contest for the managers and he said if he/we won I could have it....well he won. You should have seen the look on his face when I told him he won and then when the realization set in that he promised it to me. I had to guilt him into giving it to me too.
Anyway, I got the first chance to use it this past weekend. Holy Crap! I was gone from Friday to Monday and the temperatures ranged from 43 to 98 degrees. When I got home there was NO water in the bottom. I don't drain while camping either. Cold water still cool better than air. But there was NO water in the bottom when I got home. I am still amazed. Now, to be fair it wasn't just ice. I started with a base of plastic bottles filled with frozen salt water....and, if you are not doing this you should start. The salt lowers the freezing point of the water making them colder to start. Plus since its in bottles when it melts it doesn't leave your food a soggy mess. Then I use ice as filler. What happens is the ice melts and refreezes when it gets to the water bottles. This is what happened but usually after a 3 day trip there is water in the bottom of the cooler. And that is with lining the cooler with reflexit. I didn't do that with the Yeti.
They might be worth the price. Definitely worth the nothing I paid for it.
Anyway, I got the first chance to use it this past weekend. Holy Crap! I was gone from Friday to Monday and the temperatures ranged from 43 to 98 degrees. When I got home there was NO water in the bottom. I don't drain while camping either. Cold water still cool better than air. But there was NO water in the bottom when I got home. I am still amazed. Now, to be fair it wasn't just ice. I started with a base of plastic bottles filled with frozen salt water....and, if you are not doing this you should start. The salt lowers the freezing point of the water making them colder to start. Plus since its in bottles when it melts it doesn't leave your food a soggy mess. Then I use ice as filler. What happens is the ice melts and refreezes when it gets to the water bottles. This is what happened but usually after a 3 day trip there is water in the bottom of the cooler. And that is with lining the cooler with reflexit. I didn't do that with the Yeti.
They might be worth the price. Definitely worth the nothing I paid for it.
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