I use dry ice to keep the fridge a freezer...until the dry ice melts. That said, 2 days before I leave I freeze everything that needs to be. Then pack all of that on the bottom and dry ice on top. Everything stays frozen for 3 days typically I get 5-10 lbs of dry ice. Be careful when going in the fridge, when you open it up you have a space full of carbon dioxide, and huffing that for a period of time you will get tired as you are starving oxygen. Fire up the fan and circulate that off and you are sound as a pound. Going beyond 3 days frozen get a roto-mold cooler, good dry ice bed on the bottom of that and its good for a week.
Dry ice is amazing. For over ten years we have used a block of dry ice - approximately one foot square- that typically lasts 8 to 9 days. I kept the dry ice in its original heavy brown paper wrapper and placed in the stainless centennial Coleman cooler with a very secure lock. We would then put in two weeks worth of cooked food like meatballs, pulled porks and parboiled chicken and uncooked foods like flank steak and chix cutlets. I was always pleasantly amazed at how frozen solid everything was.
The cooler was kept locked tight and would be opened only once a day in the morning to pull out that nights dinner to defrost in the sink. The problem we now have is that the supplier of the dry ice is closed and the nearest is too far away to make it worth while.
I would definitely give it a try.
Tom Bolen
Northport, NY - Long Island Sound
SPIRIT 1999 MKII TR WK
I use dry ice to keep the fridge a freezer...until the dry ice melts. That said, 2 days before I leave I freeze everything that needs to be. Then pack all of that on the bottom and dry ice on top. Everything stays frozen for 3 days typically I get 5-10 lbs of dry ice. Be careful when going in the fridge, when you open it up you have a space full of carbon dioxide, and huffing that for a period of time you will get tired as you are starving oxygen. Fire up the fan and circulate that off and you are sound as a pound. Going beyond 3 days frozen get a roto-mold cooler, good dry ice bed on the bottom of that and its good for a week.
Dry ice is amazing. For over ten years we have used a block of dry ice - approximately one foot square- that typically lasts 8 to 9 days. I kept the dry ice in its original heavy brown paper wrapper and placed in the stainless centennial Coleman cooler with a very secure lock. We would then put in two weeks worth of cooked food like meatballs, pulled porks and parboiled chicken and uncooked foods like flank steak and chix cutlets. I was always pleasantly amazed at how frozen solid everything was.
The cooler was kept locked tight and would be opened only once a day in the morning to pull out that nights dinner to defrost in the sink. The problem we now have is that the supplier of the dry ice is closed and the nearest is too far away to make it worth while.
I would definitely give it a try.
Tom Bolen
Northport, NY - Long Island Sound
SPIRIT 1999 MKII TR WK