Packing a cooler the night before a trip and finding lukewarm drinks by lunch is usually an ice pack problem, not a cooler problem. The best ice pack for coolers is the one that matches your box in t...

By the second morning of a weekend trip, a cheap cooler has usually turned into a tub of lukewarm water, and the ice you paid for is gone. The fix is not always a bigger box. It is usually a better m...

A 45 L cooler packed at 8 a.m. with drinks and one thin gel pack will not be cold at 6 p.m. That is not a cooler problem. It is a cold source problem. The best freezer packs for coolers are not the l...

Hole fourteen. Mid-afternoon heat. The drink you dropped into your bag pocket back on hole three has gone warm, and your playing partner just pulled an ice-cold can out of the cart basket. That gap i...

A five day ice chest sounds simple until the trip begins. You pack drinks and food on Thursday night, add ice, and by Sunday the melting water has turned the cooler into a soup bowl. The problem is r...

A locked lid is the whole difference. In parks that require bear resistant food storage, a cooler without a padlock through its latches is treated as an open container, no matter how thick its walls ...

A branded backpack cooler that leaks, warms up by noon, or loses its logo after three washes is not a gift. It is a liability that sits in a warehouse. The opposite is also true: a well specified coo...

A facilities manager in Birmingham, Alabama, packs lunch for a sixty person crew five days a week from May through September. The first order of soft fabric lunch bags lasted three weeks. Ice packs h...

You are holding a cooler jug stamped 600 mL, and the cup you packed is marked in ounces. Are they the same amount? Almost, but not exactly, and that small gap matters when you portion drinks for a gr...

A buyer who searches for a 200 oz water bottle usually finds the same result: almost nobody sells a bottle at that size. What the market offers instead is a family of insulated jugs, dispensers and o...

Most buyers who outgrow a small box end up on a 45 qt hard cooler, and the reason is simple: it is the smallest size that still swallows a full weekend of food and drinks without forcing a repack eve...

Ask five buyers what a 34 quart cooler holds and you will get five different answers, because the number on the label describes the box, not the space you can actually fill. Thirty-four US quarts con...