When weight and space in the cooler is an issue, bringing blocks or bottles of frozen saltwater is not an option, which is why I freeze bottles of gatorade. Some of the benefits of a colder melting temperature and you can drink it as it melts. Combine that with hard freezing as much as possible in advance and a little dry-ice and I have cold milk, eggs, meat and produce for an entire week.
Yes Gatorade or hyrolight tablets ect can reduce the melting point a little but more heavily salted water lowers it a lot more so if you need to keep just a few items frozen the duel zone method I cover in this vid is a great option but one must also remember that with whatever you use any decrease in melting point will also result in a decrease in melting time. Also as stated in the vid salt water ice is great for pre cooling which is very important with these thick roto-molded coolers for 10+ day performance. Thanks for watching.
Thanks--a great experiment/demonstration. As usual, there is no black and white answer as to which type of ice is better. It all depends on the situation!
In college when we had a party everyone brought their drinks and beer cases still at room temp so I placed all the bottles and cans in a cooler, then dropped the ice on top and then I would start throwing salt on top of the ice and it would join all the ice together and begin cooling fast and in 15 minutes every drink was cold. So I would say salt for fast cooling, fresh for camping or long trips
yes although I didn't cover that trick in this video the action lab has a great video on how putting salt on fresh water ice makes it cool faster. th-cam.com/video/Mf5wWE68HQY/w-d-xo.html
A video discussing ice for coolers that understands phase change and the pro's and con's of having a higher/lower phase change temperature. There may be hope for the world after all 😀
Reminds of the people filing their cooler lids with spray foam when another TH-camr performed a test and found that this mod actually made things worse.
@@Rocky_Hill_Iron_Works nice, I just tested some I made. They lasted three days. The equivalent of three bags of ice. But with an approximate of one bag of ice in the tubes. Not bad. No water mess. 😊
Yes that's another great advantage of using fresh water ice in containers and if you need freezer temperatures for just a few items you can use the duel zone technique that I cover in this video.
hello!! love the video,is just a suggestion that in a open space salty water could loose it's temp faster because the gradient temperature is higher,so it absorb heat faster.
@@yvanpimentel9950 Yes the plastic has some insulating property but it is the same for fresh water ice and the differential between them doesn't change as long as they are both kept under the same conditions. Thanks for watching.
When weight and space in the cooler is an issue, bringing blocks or bottles of frozen saltwater is not an option, which is why I freeze bottles of gatorade. Some of the benefits of a colder melting temperature and you can drink it as it melts. Combine that with hard freezing as much as possible in advance and a little dry-ice and I have cold milk, eggs, meat and produce for an entire week.
Oh.......and beer.
Yes Gatorade or hyrolight tablets ect can reduce the melting point a little but more heavily salted water lowers it a lot more so if you need to keep just a few items frozen the duel zone method I cover in this vid is a great option but one must also remember that with whatever you use any decrease in melting point will also result in a decrease in melting time.
Also as stated in the vid salt water ice is great for pre cooling which is very important with these thick roto-molded coolers for 10+ day performance. Thanks for watching.
Dual zone idea is great! Thank you
Thanks--a great experiment/demonstration. As usual, there is no black and white answer as to which type of ice is better. It all depends on the situation!
Yep exactly! Different types for different situations
In college when we had a party everyone brought their drinks and beer cases still at room temp so I placed all the bottles and cans in a cooler, then dropped the ice on top and then I would start throwing salt on top of the ice and it would join all the ice together and begin cooling fast and in 15 minutes every drink was cold. So I would say salt for fast cooling, fresh for camping or long trips
yes although I didn't cover that trick in this video the action lab has a great video on how putting salt on fresh water ice makes it cool faster.
th-cam.com/video/Mf5wWE68HQY/w-d-xo.html
@@Rocky_Hill_Iron_Works thank you, I'll check it out 👍
A video discussing ice for coolers that understands phase change and the pro's and con's of having a higher/lower phase change temperature. There may be hope for the world after all 😀
haha thank you, I thought I would make one as there wasn't really a vid out there that demonstrated it properly
Thanks for making this video. |I got similar results myself with both. And thank you for not using background music!!!
No worries at all! Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for this very informative video!
Good test, cheers!
Reminds of the people filing their cooler lids with spray foam when another TH-camr performed a test and found that this mod actually made things worse.
What if the container is sealed, not open to air? This test is great if you use ice cubes. Curious.
You get the same differential in melt time with sealed containers, cheers.
@@Rocky_Hill_Iron_Works nice, I just tested some I made. They lasted three days. The equivalent of three bags of ice. But with an approximate of one bag of ice in the tubes. Not bad. No water mess. 😊
We use fresh water so we can drink it. Why waste precious space in cooler with water you can’t drink
Yes that's another great advantage of using fresh water ice in containers and if you need freezer temperatures for just a few items you can use the duel zone technique that I cover in this video.
losing net temperature don't mean it holds les ,it get hotter faster because been colder allowed it to loose more heat quickly.
Please watch the video properly before commenting.
hello!! love the video,is just a suggestion that in a open space salty water could loose it's temp faster because the gradient temperature is higher,so it absorb heat faster.
@@yvanpimentel9950 Yes the plastic has some insulating property but it is the same for fresh water ice and the differential between them doesn't change as long as they are both kept under the same conditions. Thanks for watching.