Great cooler
Last year on a hunting trip to Maine in October a member of our group had a new "YETTI" cooler. He had been out there beyond electric power for about two weeks and his cooler still had about 90% of th...
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hddecker wrote:rockhillmanor wrote:
My parents would always add a layer of newspaper to the top of the stuff inside the cooler. Never gave much thought to it as a kid.
I tried it this year and puting a layer of newspaper on top DOES increase the time your food will stay cold.
Stuff will stay frozen longer if you wrap it in newspaper. I use about five pages per and have had steak that was still frozen on day 4.
Newspaper makes for good insulation, my grand parents homestead house still has the newspaper on the walls. The house is 111 years old and I think the newspaper is going to out last the wood.
X2 and thanks for the tip about actually wrapping each item with newspaper also.
I bought my grandparent's summer home when they died.
I was changing out the trim and found newspaper stuffed in there for insulation. I pulled it out and found a full page ad for cars...A brand new Lincoln Continental was a whopping $500.00! :C
