Summer and beer coolers

[Steve M]

Nothing like a cold beverage during a hot summer weekend. Now is there any truth to this?


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I do remember making ice cream with my grandfather. Dry ice and rock salt used as a coolant. Yet we use salt to de ice sidewalks. By the way.. that ice cream was to die for.. but now I like cold beer. So if I put salt on the ice in the cooler it would cool better? And longer?

[Webb]

I don't see why it wouldn't work but do you really want your beer colder than freezing? When I pull a beer out of a barrel of ice water it's plenty cold. Sometimes it hurts my throat.

It's keeping it cold that's the problem. I usually drink out of cans because they're more convenient to dispose of and I put the can inside a hugger. Since bottles provide better insulation than cans they would probably keep it cold longer.

I have some of those insulated plastic mugs but they're more trouble than they're worth. To keep them cold you have to rotate 2 or 3 of them.

[ozzy72]

This was the method they used to make ice-cream pre-freezers (good old historical cookery programs). It is to do with lowering the freezing point, can't remember the physics but yeah it works.

[Steve M]

I'm going try it this coming weekend with two coolers of equal size, one with salt, one with ice/no salt and two thermometers. And recording the difference in temperatures every hour until I pass out..

I remember turning the handle on grammas old wooden ice cream maker, as 20 minutes passed the handle got much harder to turn because of the freezing going on. A steel canister with the ingredients in it would turn and begin frosting over.

[Flying Trucker]

Hi Steve...

We are almost ready to go to the bugsmasher field to watch some ultra lights and gyro thingies...

All homebuilt with a few kit designs.

BBQ starts about noon.

Remembering back when driving my Land Rover Model 88 through the bush to camp out, we had several coolers full of food and cold wobbly pop.
The coolers were usually covered over with kit like tents, sleeping bags and boxes of goodies not needed to be kept cool.

Growing up around military men and many an old bush pilot I learned a few tricks. Think I posted these before but here is a reminder....

If you want a cold wobbly pop one does not have to move everything off the top of the cooler.

-grab a warm wobbly pop
-take a good clean rag long enough to fit into the gas tank of the vehicle, boat gas tank or the aircraft fuel tank
-allow a little fuel to soak the end of the rag
-don't smoke
-replace the fuel cover
-wrap the fuel covered rag around the wobbly pop bottle or can
-just a few seconds is all it takes to get the bottle or can wet
-remove rag...store in a safe place for second wobbly pop
-fuel evaporates off the wobbly pop using the heat from the bottle or can
-no taste or smell from the bottle or can will be detected

-when transporting wobbly pop open the box from the bottom
-remove wobbly pop
-flip wobbly pop box right side up...will look like it has never been open

Went to university and never learned those tricks, had to be around a bunch of fine outstanding gentlemen, black flies, mosquitoes and deer flies to get really educated...

[Steve M]

Have a great day Doug, sounds like fun. One more tip is put your beer in a river or stream, but I'm sure you knew that. I had never thought of the beer box trick before though, and maybe a good thing, I might have gotten the bejeavers beaten outa me! I'm not a big person.. you probably know, the farther north you go, the more a beer is worth.

[Flying Trucker]

Good morning Steve and all...


Well the old girl is nattering at me again, hope she leaves to get saved soon with the other nattering nannies...

Yup, you guessed it.

This Old Retired Rocking Chair Flying Geezer got into some real hot spicy food yesterday, ate more than his share and was up half the night moaning and groaning.

Wonder if there should be a law about Flying Clubs and BBQs?

I had a ride in a nicely restored Cessna 150 without the rear window and several kit designs. When I squeezed into the aircraft some of the young aviators thought we might be over the weight limit...

The old girl and one of our grandchildren dragged me away from a Lake Amphibian which was for sale and in real nice shape.

Well going back to our Wobbly Pop and cooler stories.

Waterways make a good place to cool down food and beverages and usually out of sight and smell of wildlife.

Learned a long time ago from my older brothers that:

-the more wobbly pop a little fellow consumes the bigger he gets...soon he is a 130lb Hulk Hogan

-they say the bigger they are the harder they fall

-I have also witnessed the smaller they are the farther they fly when hit

Now getting back to the bugsmasher field and the BBQ and you might remember to try this on your better half Steve and all.

I tried to convince the old girl and the other nattering nannies that in the old days the women always carried the backpack and canoe.
The men walked behind holding the musket just in case some varmint jumped out from behind a tree or was on the path.

All the other Old Retired Rocking Chair Flying Geezers agreed with me, however not sure about the old girl and the other nattering nannies. The coolers worked fine Steve as the wobbly pop was cold....