Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:10:04 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: fridge replacement?
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I am right with you on the overuse of the word, but that's what it says on
the side of the cooler....the insulation is twice the thickness of a regular
cooler and the lid fits better as well.
I don't know if it'll fit under the bed; we usually position it laterally
behind the passenger's seat to provide a step to the upper berth.
I'll try it and report back. The cooler's the shizzle though; I think it
would go 6 or 7 days on a block of ice if the temperature was mostly under
100.
Our cooler is full of organic greens too. In addition to being a spectacular
cook, Mrs de Villiers has a very productive organic garden that spews
lettuce, zucchini, crooknecks, broccoli etc all summer long for our eating
pleasure. People hang around our site at dinner hoping for an
invite...........
On 8/2/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jake de Villiers typed:
> > I've been biting my tongue through all this fridge jazz and now Ryan
> goes
> > and rains on your parade.
> >
> > Even better, with our new 'Extreme" cooler, we go camping for four days
> and
> > come home and put 1/2 a block of ice back into the freezer on the porch.
> > Beer goes into its own cooler with ice cubes. Its perfect.
> >
> > Sorry, fridge people.
>
> No, actually I though that Ryan's post was directly to the point. He
> took us back to the tried-and-true solution to this keeping the food
> cold thing. Me, I abhor wet cold food and I often camp in places for
> more than four days and don't care to pull up stakes to get ice, so I
> like active refrigeration -- but that's personal preference.*
>
> If there was an Extreme** cooler that was under 14'' in height so it fit
> under the lip of the opened up lower bunk I'd grab me one. Keeping the
> cooler inside in black bear country is essential if food is wanted in
> morning. The obvious place to keep it is under the bunk lip. We have a
> little white (read: for boating folk) Igloo model that can fit under
> there, but it's no Extreme.
>
> ---------
> * Combine small van refrigerator with Mrs Squirrel's fondness for large
> quantities of fresh greens and other perishable produce with hot weather
> for many days with lack of access to ice and one must get inventive. I
> am trialing a cooler + dry ice + evaporative cooling clusterf#ck of an
> idea in a couple of weeks. Will report back.
>
> ** And if manufacturers could put usage of that word "extreme" to bed
> right about now that would be fine with me.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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