How to Keep Ice Frozen in an Ice Chest

Food spoilage is always a concern when taking different foods in an ice chest. Whether it be meat or condiments, food safety is an issue. How do you keep your food items cold and safe? This is a way to keep your ice frozen for up to 5 days in an ice chest

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1 gallon container
• 3/4 cup salt

1. 
    

   Start with a clean 1 gallon container of water. Mark the container "Salt". Add 1/3 cup of salt to the container and shake it until it dissolves. Put the container into the freezer.

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   Periodically, check the container. The salt will tend to regroup so you will need to shake the container while it is still slushy to redistribute the salt. Keep it in the freezer. When it is completely frozen, there will be a small area of the bottom that has not frozen. That's OK.

3. 
    

   When you are ready to load your ice chest, take the container with the salt and put it in the bottom. We use two. Cover the containers with a bag of ice. Put you articles on the top. Since it takes a colder temperature to freeze ice water, than it does to freeze ice, your ice will remain frozen.

4. You ice will remain frozen longer and you may even be able to freeze the ice again when you return home. The containers with the salt may defrost so just follow the same procedures and freeze them again. They will always be ready the next time you need to protect food in an ice chest.

Tips & Warnings

• Take an ice pick. You may need to pry beverages out of the container.
• Frozen meats will not thaw in the ice chest so plan accordingly.
• Make sure that the container is marked "Salt".

[maryladd]

on 12/5/2009 How to Keep Ice Frozen in an Ice Chest was a very interesting article. I had not thought about the salt. Good job. recommended you 5 *

[ghostwoman]

on 9/13/2009 Excellent article on how to keep ice dry in an ice chest.

5*s and a recommend. Well written.

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[lovelights]

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[Jolocol]

on 6/17/2009 This will be a great thing to use this summer. Thanks!