How long to get cold!

We turn our fridge on the day before we leave for a trip. By morning it's ready to load with food.

Just want to say thanks for all the input new realized i have to prechill. Know better now for next time.

I've got a standard RV type fridge at our camp, there's no electricity (other than a generator) and no way to precook it.

Years back we came up with a method that works really well.

Freeze a several (we use 4) of the largest plastic (not glass) soda bottles full of water in your freezer at home, then stand them in the fridge and freezer (we put 3 in fridge, 1 in freezer) with one of those battery-powered fans in there.

We can have the fridge down to 45 deg in about 1.5 hrs. The food lives in the cooler till then.

Afterwards we put a little water in the cooler with the frozen soda bottles and use that to chill the drinks for the rest of the stay.

If you pack it with cold food I would not worry about prechillin'

If you are packing with a case of warm beer you better not invite your buddies over until the next evening.

Turn on Thursday ready to go by Friday i load it before work on Friday when i get home i unplug and hit the road for the weekend food stays cold while driving

Turn on Thursday ready to go by Friday i load it before work on Friday when i get home i unplug and hit the road for the weekend food stays cold while driving

Ditto, turned mine on about 7pm last night after making sure it was level and this morning (6am) it was very cold.

Mine normally gets cold overnight. Last year we had excessive heat when we were getting ready to leave. I went to our Meijer store and bought 3# of dry ice to help it get cool. That worked great. I have to park in the lot at our condo and out of sight so it didn't get opened to check until morning when DW loaded it up.

JJ Spectre wrote:
Wow,
I know my TT is brand new and therefore so is the fridge, but I ran mine on LP and it was cold enough to load the groceries into it in about 3-4 hours. I guess as it ages I should expect it to take longer?

Time factor is a variable....

All depends on outside temp and inside temp/fridge temp prior to turning on.

One very important thing to remember......Off Level operation can cause clogging. It is an 'accumulative damage' so the more times operated off level the more clogging can occur.

Our fridge is 7 yrs. old and works very well....still only need to set on #2 for great cooling (#3 setting in really hot temps).

Wow,
I know my TT is brand new and therefore so is the fridge, but I ran mine on LP and it was cold enough to load the groceries into it in about 3-4 hours. I guess as it ages I should expect it to take longer?