The first thing to consider when you buy coolness is how you will use it. If you don’t go out for days at a time, you probably don’t need an expensive high cooling. All the cookers we recommend above are able to keep things at a safe temperature during a day, as long as you keep them in the shade. Similarly, if you navigate robust terrain, you may want nasty wheels – and if you just go to the beach, you may not need them.
Hard cookers: These go from the old Green Coleman coolers – anytime from every camp trip – until Yetis, which cost as much as cars when Coleman started making coolants. You may wonder why the Yetis is so expensive. That I can’t answer, but Yeti has increased the cooler industry by introducing rotating molding, or “rotomolations”, where melted plastic is molded over foam insulation in one piece. Rotonolded cookers offer sewn, uniform density in their walls and covers, which dramatically enhances the performance of coolness. In contrast, those ancient, affordable plastic coolants that we all used have thinner walls, leaky seams and less isolated covers. Do you need the extra insulation depends on what you do and how hot is when you do it. Do you want to learn more? Our inner house knows A more thorough isolated explanation.
Hard cookers generally have the luxury features you want, like liquid covers and drainage plugs, and some are even resistant (check this list of bear-proof products If you go to Ursin country). The disadvantage is that these cookers are generally huge and heavy.
Soft side cookers: Mild side coolars include everything, from well-inserted, impressively isolated swing bags (like the Yeti Hopper-Flip up) to roll, dry bag style cools perfect for those gentle beach days. The best soft cookers are easier to be portable, pack easily when not used, and have versatility, which lacks traditional hard cookers. (I used dry bag style coolants like, well, dry bags.) Ice doesn’t last so long, but for short exits, where you don’t need a big cooler, that’s what we recommend. Our older choice was stopped; We are on the hunt for another.
Electric coolers: Sure, they are not necessary, but if you go out to longer adventures and have access to power, you will never have to worry about your ice melting.
Other features to search:
- Drain plug plug: This greatly simplifies life by making it easier for the water from your coolness. If you buy a great coolness, make sure it has one of these.
- A splitter: One of our best tips for long -term cooler use is to have two coolants: one you treat as a refrigerator and hardly ever open, and another for drinks. If this is not possible, you can reach some same with a cooler with a dividing wall in it. That way you can pack one side firmly with ice to hold that meat at a low time, and use the other side to cool drinks with cubed ice.
- Wheels: Coolars weigh and wheels are terrible. They will not always work (good luck rolling your cool over tree roots), but when they do, they are completely worth it.
