According to Popular Science Magazine, we are making a huge mistake when we grab their cooler straight from a hot garage and start filling it with ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PRO-TIP:\u00a0 A few hours before packing your cooler, pre-chill it with a bag of ice or frozen water bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then those frozen water bottles can pull double duty. They’ll help keep everything cold . . . and they should stay icy for a while, so you can have a cold sip at the end of a long day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are a few more tips: Keep food and drinks in separate coolers, since the drink cooler gets opened more often . . . pack the cooler tightly to eliminate warm air gaps . . . and put a towel under it if it’s going to sit directly on a warm surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Popular Science Magazine, we are making a huge mistake when we grab their cooler straight from a hot garage and start filling it with ice. PRO-TIP:\u00a0 A few hours before packing your cooler, pre-chill it with a bag of ice or frozen water bottles. And then those frozen water bottles can pull double","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":49915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-29 17:49:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2026\/07\/are-we-packing-our-coolers-wrong\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49916,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914\/revisions\/49916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}