Dry ice in ice boxs

John, dry ice is best used in a block. Breaking it up makes it little better than party ice - just colder.

Dry ice can not be expected to be a long term freezing medium

I use the engel (in my case a copy trailblaza) as freezer which can be used to freeze 2 x 2 litre plastic containers and swap them between the esky to keep day to day perishables...works a treat

John,

Just for fun I did an Advanced Google search on the words USING DRY ICE. There are 2900 plus responses and just a quick look showed there was some really good stuff in there.

Worth a look before you write off the useage of dry ice.

Cheers

Magnus

I too found that dry ice did not last long - what we did was use ice in 2L plastic milk bottles - but we would throw in a few blocks of dry ice to freeze everything down - this made the ice last days longer - we were getting 6 days out of the ice in our evacool esky. Then ya borrow your mates Engel to refreeze the bottles or make sure your near a town again.

Hi folks

On the subject of dry ice. I have just returned from a trip to Rainbow Beach. Seeing as though I don't have a fridge, I decided to use a block of Dry Ice that was intended to be last eight days. It cost about forty dollars. The guy who sold it to me was very helpful and I followed his advice. Here's what to do.

Put a layer of party ice in the bottom of the esky.
Leave the dry ice wrapped up in the newspaper that it comes in.
Place a wet tea towel over the dry ice.
Cover the dry ice in some more party ice.
Sprinkle a handful of ordinary salt over the top of it all.

This has a sealing effect on the whole lot. The gas from the dry ice blends with the party ice and keeps everything as a solid block for as long as the dry ice lasts. In my case I still had frozen snags at the end of eight days.

Worked like a charm for me. Now if your wondering what I was doing eating snags on a great beach. The answer is I didn't catch any fish. Such is life.

Regards Merv.