Frozen food for bush trip – ideas please?

Don't mention Cobbs! :)

Pre-cooked...???? Nah. I like to cook in the bush and, frankly, I couldn't be bothered with trying to cook and freeze a week or two's meals.

Mike Harding

""Wengel's are colder. Especially if fitted with the shoelace and Cobb option.

Solar LPG panels will mean you can camp for 2.33 Milleniums and eat what you like.""


The LPG panels are too lite, and it's hard to stop them from floating away because the gas is stored too close to the glass and it heats up to high !!
The Weengel are colder only because the shoe lace is able to hold it closer to the Waycoe !! lol

I enjoy a good joke
telstra is a joke too lol

Hi Ms Doe

I've got the blue one and thought I would use it as a fridge/freezer.

Pies are a good idea - oranges and bananas!!! really? I'll clearly have to put a bit more thought into this freezer thing than I thought.

Mike Harding

Hi Mike

I have read your replies on the other posts and didn't realise you wanted to stay away from prepared foods. Best to make a menu up, take only what you will require if cooking from scratch with a campfire/stove.
As for the oranges and bananas, yeap it works. Oranges will keep frozen in their skins for quite some months but the bananas (buy when cheaper) won't keep as long. To be honest they never lasted too long in Summer with 3 kids around anyway.

I don't know where the element is in the new ones so I can't help there except to say, try and contain the colder parts for your frozen goods with a divider. I used to do that in the Chestcold we bought in the late 70's and it still was going strong when I left 2 years ago. All the meats, juice, milk and water all froze/iced over nicely as well as we had cold drinks for the kids, the adults at happy hour and that was in Qld weather too!
With the Trailblaza the majority of the element for that is on the bottom so I divide that with wood hinged in the middle on 6 little pieces of dowell or pvc pipes. We turn it down a notch when most of the meat is used and use it more like a fridge, the meat still stays frozen.

Cya
:)
Ms Doe

Hi Ms Doe
I'm interested in a bit more info on the trailblazer. I have a 60ltr compact type and was wondering what setting you run yours on whilst in the freeze at the bottom, fridge at the top mode.
Any other info would be appreciated.
Regards Franga

You're joking ????
How do you even think of fitting in that sort of stuff ???
A fridge is for beer....and if you can fit it in .......marg, milk,cheese !!!!

Gronk,

Your exactly right, a fridge is for beer.... and a freezer is for other stuff.

Only a wally would leave beer in the freezer for a long time cause it makes a heck of a mess when the stubbiew pop and spill their guts into the freezer.

Now placing the beer from the fridge into the freezer for an hour before drinking is another thing. Works a treat at home so rekon it would work in the bush also - just gotta rember to take the remainer out (have had several sunday morning clean ups).

Paul.

Another item we got to make Ice cubes.They are ice cube bags made by the glad
wrap people,have a look in the supermarkets near the glad wrap. Make neat
ice cubes. Cheers

On a side note to this, what brand and size solar panel were you using to top up the battery.

mattche,
3 weeks and no reply so maybe a bit more info from elsewhere will not be mistaken as intrusion... lol

The two fridges would be using ~6ah so would have to replace that at least to keep the agm at a fully charged state.

Sorry mate,

never got the email follow up, the panel is a 60w Kyocera, and a projecta 10a regulator.

All works pretty well, I dont doubt that when its 40deg it will be a different story, but when its that hot so is solar output so panel maxes out.

I only usually camp a few days at a time if bush camping, and it works fine.

Battery is an Amptech, and its HUGE in physical size, but works fab.

Ron

Ron,
You posted,
""Was out this weekend with both sucking off my 120 a/hr AGM
and with my solar panel on it was still topping up battery""


If it's the Amptech D87L, it's a Deep Cycle but not an agm battery !!

Dunno?,

was told it was an AGM, paid $220 inc for it, does that help? I did get a fair bit of discount though,

not real fussed what it is, it does the job very well

being 120ah tells me it's not agm as they don't make a 120ah agm.

As your not fussed, it's ok to pay whatever is asked, but to be told your buying an agm battery with their real benefits of very fast recharge and high discharge capabilities is immoral and deceitful when all you are given is a common sla battery.

As your happy in the job it does all ends well.

happy travels...

Mainey,

Dont think deceitful, prhaps just not knowledgeable, guy seems pretty good, same battery elsewhere was 285.

It actually says 200ah on side, but rep says its 120 and got wrong sticker on it.

Its biggest batt I ever had, and it was a tight literally sliding fit in biggest box I could buy.

Top has the handles as part of mouldings, and nothing else on it apart from the lead poles, totally flat, no plugs or even vents.

I ran the 2 fridges on it in shed for 2 nights, (i know not scientific and not as hot, but just an idea to see) and then checked battery voltage and it was 12.6v, so without the panel I was happy with that, so should be ok on 2 cloudy days.

What I do isnt life threatening, i dont go across deserts n stuff like that, I camp at dams and fish.

Ron

Ron, the 120ah battery is about the standard 33cm long the next bigger DC battery is about 40cm long and both have two (2) lugs at each end, whereby the Cranking batteries have only one (1) lug each end, both types have the handles as you posted.
Some 200ah batteries are almost 1/2 mtr long.