I recently sold my Pelican cooler, but here is a funny video I just came across
But you didn't answer why you sold it? Now that it's gone you can tell us
Well the truth is that I was not impressed with it. Ice retention was not much if any better than my old Igloo cooler built in 1989 or something like that. Combine that with the enormous size and ridiculous weight, it was not worth it all to me.
I really wanted to like this cooler and took as many steps as possible in trying to convince myself.
First I chilled the cooler beforehand by filling it up with like 6 or so big blue ice packs. I made sure all drinks and food were refrigerated before going in. I then dropped in a block of ice along with 10 pounds of ice cubes. I covered the cooler with a blanket to keep the sun off and ran the rear AC whenever I was driving to keep the back where the cooler was located cool. After about 32-36 hours the block was fine, but all 10 pounds of ice cubes were always 100% melted.
So it was just not worth it to lug that monster around when the performance wasn't much better than my old igloo.
I think the problem with any cooler and off roading is that the constant moving and shaking creates friction and melts the ice much quicker compared to a cooler sitting in camp for 5-7 days straight.
I'll just get a fridge eventually and do away with the annoyance of buying and using ice.
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