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I used dry ice last year and it worked fairly well. I still ended up buying a few bags of ice on top of it anyways. You can get it at grocery stores. I got mine at a Publix last year. Be sure you put a layer of ice over the dry ice, otherwise your goods will be frozen solid.
Post by fordgoose15 on May 21, 2007 11:17:54 GMT -5
I got dry ice last year - actually by using the link posted above. This year I am going to get a 5-day cooler instead and put a couple of milk jugs of ice in there. I wasn't all that impressed with the performance of dry ice in the 'Roo environment - it is better for long car trips with meat when the cooler will never be opened.
^^^ the trick is to have two coolers. Open the dry ice cooler once a day in the morning to get stuff to transfer to the other cooler. Keep ice or frozen bottles in that one.
(ha, ha, this cooler, that cooler, the other cooler)
Post by kaleidoscope kristen on Jun 8, 2007 18:13:39 GMT -5
you guys are lucky! the only ice distributor that sells it down here on the coast is charging $12.50 for 10 lbs. ( about a walmart sized bag, i believe) so yeah, needless to say, i'll probably only be getting 10 lbs. worth
Ok, quick question, my step mother says not to put Dry ice in the car. She says it can cause carbon monoxide poisoning or something like that....is this true?
As my Inebriated buddy walks out of the Porto, he yells out, "Dude...I love this place...bonnaroo thinks about everything...they even put beer holders next to the toilet!"
Had to break it to him that that was the urnal. Good times good times!
Ok, quick question, my step mother says not to put Dry ice in the car. She says it can cause carbon monoxide poisoning or something like that....is this true?
its carbon dioxide...
i dont think it would be a good idea to say, fill up the backseat and close all the windows - but i dont see a real problem with having some in a cooler.
As my Inebriated buddy walks out of the Porto, he yells out, "Dude...I love this place...bonnaroo thinks about everything...they even put beer holders next to the toilet!"
Had to break it to him that that was the urnal. Good times good times!
Post by strumntheguitar on Jun 9, 2007 18:25:27 GMT -5
dry ice is perfectly healthy as long as you don't go sniffing it or grabbing it with bare hands, or even holding it with gloves for a few minutes at a time.
Lucky me working at a chemistry plant we have a big cooler full of it that I am "temporarily borrowing" a bag with 5 pounds or so.
Dry ice is easy to use......just wrap it in a beach towel and keep anything you want just cold (not frozen) near the top of the cooler, with colder stuff below that. Keep the ice at the bottom of the cooler and minimize exposure to air (that is what kills dry ice, not heat). A couple of 10 pound blocks for a big cooler should be more than enough for the whole weekend....as for prices, we can all quote the last price we paid for dry ice but prices vary, of course......never unreasonable though. Not a bad way to go.....
i buy the kind in the little containers. you just freeze it and then put it in the cooler. you can reuse it each year. it seems to last a long time and it doesnt get on you at all. i also use jugs of ice and regular ice. i agree you need one cooler that you dont open and one for drinks.
Great thoughts here as everyone packs up. Dry ice is really cold - so make sure it does not come in direct contact with the contents. The "beach towel" idea was a good one.
It is really important (as was said earlier) to NOT be opening and closing the cooler that has the dry ice. So, the cooler(s) with dry ice need to be left alone and only opened one or two times per day.
The milk jug idea is a good one. Blocks of ice work wonders and much better than bags of ice for keeping a low temp in the cooler. I'll also suggest "jugs" that have thicker plastic. I have Tropicana OJ jugs that I use. the plastic is thick and last year they left Florida Frozen and still had chunks of ice in them on Sunday AM. By then we drank the water.
Ice is expensive at roo (not really bad but it does cost). The best deal last year was the local fire department selling ice on Bushy Branch road (vendor section that is all locals and not Superfly) as it runs through the camp. it was behind area 3. ice was 1/2 the cost of the festival and we were camped not far so it was a deal.
