Cool Drinks
Submitted: Thursday, Jan 27, 2005 at 20:45
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John
I manage in my campertriler (a fantastic T-Van) without a a fridge freezer. After many years sailing I have discovered producs that are fine without refrigeration (such as long life milk). It helps that I am not a big meat eater and am happy with red wine.
I went away over 5 days fly fising recently and the day temps were around 38 every day. Horror! the red wine was too hot to drink.
My wife suggested wrapping the wine in a wet tea towel, an old idea and I was sceptical about the difference it would make.
Too my surprise it made the wine much cooler and even some coke was drinkable. It was much cooler than when kept in the river !
This idea my also be usefull even if you have a fridge to reduce energy consumption when restocking.
Made a great holiday even better. One note of caution I Saw 3 snakes over the 5 days., including a brown that climbed if my wifes leg while sitting in the river. (she said I have never yelled as loud when I saw it. She also said I should have not have yelled but said " Angela dont move because you will be bitten, there is a snake climbing up your leg". I think she is calmer in these situations than I am)
Cheers
John
Reply By: Member - Jimbo (VIC) - Thursday, Jan 27, 2005 at 21:57
Thursday, Jan 27, 2005 at 21:57
I had an old uncle who died 20 years ago who told me when he was "young", working in the bush, in the heat, they simply wrapped the bottles of beer in wet cloths and sat them under the truck for half an hour and "icy" cold beer at the end of the shift.
Simply doesn't work. Cools it from hot to warm. If you can tolerate warm beer, great. A warm beer at the end of a hot day will do you more harm than an "off" steak.
If you can afford $30,000 on a camper, another $700 on a small fridge would not seem to be an outlandish waste. Could even get your Coke cold.
Just my thoughts. I do love a cold beer, and more importantly, on a hot day a cold drink of water revives me.
Cheers,
Jim.
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Follow Up By: John - Thursday, Jan 27, 2005 at 22:27
Thursday, Jan 27, 2005 at 22:27
Dear Jimbo
Yes i agree the method does not cool enough to make beer aceptable, but the drinks were more like coolish than warm. Not bad for an air temp of 38C. There was also little wind which I would have expected to improve the performance.
Cheers
John
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Follow Up By: Member - Moggs - Thursday, Jan 27, 2005 at 23:56
Thursday, Jan 27, 2005 at 23:56
Yep, works like a gem...we always carry many wet tea towels in the back of our horse and cart right next to the stone axe and the sextant ;)
Treat yourself...get a fridge :)
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