Hey guys Ike Eastman here at the Eastman's gear lab and today we're going
to talk real quick about how to pack your cooler it's the middle of July
everybody's hot across the entire country here are some tips that I've
learned and some tips that we've learned from people like Yeti about how to pack
a cooler depending on what you're trying to do with it a lot of people obviously
know ice but one of the tricks that we use especially early season for antelope
hunting is dry ice. Dry ice is key because it will stay frozen until it is
gone it will also keep your cooler and your ice frozen until it's gone so what
it does is just add a little bit of time in the field. So it doesn't take a ton
this is about pound and a half of ice of dry ice make sure you leave it in the
paper sack don't touch it, it will frost bit your hand instantly. So there's two
methods there's one to freeze stuff and one to keep things cold what we're going
to do today to just keep things cold the other one is you just reverse the order
of this. So to keep things cold you throw the dry ice in the bottom of your cooler.
Make sure it's flat take your ice, regular ice now the key to this is making sure
that the ice covers up the dry ice and the reason is, is it will create a
barrier it'll basically insulate itself. You'll create a barrier from your dry ice
and your other stuff, I have done this long enough to know, that if you don't do that you will open your cooler and there
will be an exploded pop in there or whatever else it was whatever touches that
dry ice freezes so the dry ice covered by ice it's going to dry it's going to
freeze it, freeze the ice solid, and then you can just put your stuff on top now
stuff that you want to stay colder put it on the bottom. Stuff that you want to
keep cool to drink put it closer to the top and the stuff that doesn't really
matter like the sandwiches and things that you just you want refrigerated cold
leave them on the very top. Now the other key to this is you don't have to have
the ice surrounding the drinks and about probably an hour hour and a half this
cooler going to be so cold all of this warm stuff will be freezer cold just
because of the amount of ice in here so hopefully that helps today hopefully you
guys get a little tip and when you're packing the boat up or pack an
early-season you got an antelope or whatever hunt you guys can pack your yeti
cooler and keep things cold. The other way to do this is using dry ice to cool
things off to the point where they freeze that is where you put the meat in
there make sure the meat is cooled down not warm but make sure the meat is
cooled down to you know the 60 below sixty degrees and then put the dry ice
on top of it and it will freeze solid whatever you put in there last year we
put an entire antelope in a cooler on the way home from southern Colorado it
was 90 some degrees and by the time we got home it was frozen solid. Dry ice on
top is frozen dry ice on the bottom keeps everything cool.
We'll see you next time hope you guys have a good summer and good luck this fall.