does this actually keep things cold? if it's 90 out the cans would be 60.
2045705
I agree with the other answers. I don't know the temps, but it keep my wife's meds cool on our driving trips. We also got the 120 adapter to use in motels. They both do a pretty good job.
2045706
If you're on a boat in hot weather, you have it just right--it will hold it at 60 degrees if the ambient temperature is 90. Putting in a frozen bottle of water is a good idea. That way, it works like any conventional soft sided cooler (not as well as a hard sided one!) but the combination of the ice and the cooling mechanism will help a lot. Can't quantify it for you, though :-)
2045707
Exactly correct. It's not a refrigerator--it's a cooler. If you put stuff in it cold and it's 90 INSIDE YOUR VEHICLE it will eventually warm up to 60. But usually you'll keep the inside of your vehicle around 75, which puts it around 45. This isn't VERY cold, but it's comfortable. And if you're using it for day trips, as we do, it will keep a couple of sandwiches and a couple of drinks from getting ripe by the time you want to eat them.
2007695
I'm very happy with the cooler and ordered two. Each can hold about 50 lbs of ice total. However, I fill up half the volume with about 30-36 beers and the other half volume with a 22 lb bag of ice. The ice lasts around 3 days and keeps everything cold for 96 hours.
1000581
When I use it it really keeps stuff cold. It's keeps things incredibly cold. I love it for the purpose of keeping the bottles safe for my child to eat. Think if you got a bottle sleeve and made the bottle extra warm it should stay nice and warn in the sleeve. If you want to keep it warm you might want to look into a thermos. Best of luck.
1337742
It cools 40f below the ambient - so if you have this in a room temp environment (70-75f) then it should attain (30-35f), ie very cold. If you have it in a car where its usually warmer (85-90f) then you get warmer temps (85-40=45f)... still cool enough to store dairy. Now this depends upon the claim of cooling 40f below ambient actually being true.
1777287
We keep ours in the frig. Don't know if we could hold them if they got "freezer cold". Pop does stay cold for the whole can with it just chilled.
1303282
I don't think it is capable of keeping it frozen and probably can only keep things cold.
1075410
I don't worry about getting it cold...it insulates so that what goes in cold stays cold.
1587222
I have always used a small coolie with it and it has done well in keeping things cold. I think it would depend on the tempature outside also.
836557
Can hold about 18 soda cans. Does not cool food or soda down well, but keeps food feom a refrigerator cold. Used on 2 week trip with no problems
91981
If you have a cold pack underneath, it stays pretty cold. I don't think it keeps it cold on it's own.
25892
no it's not. I wouldn't use this cooler for that. It's a standard "lunch box" doesn't keep things really cold.
906313
It could if you place a few Blue Ice blocks inside in between bottles and food. We don't have 110 degree weather over here. It could go up to 90 and it stays cool.
215650
With ours, any setting below 46 degrees will cause anything in the back half to freeze -- water, tea, diet drinks (with the exception would be regular soda). This probably doesn't help you if you've already bought the thing! Seems like a finicky refrigerator in general with settings, and needs to have air circulating inside it to allow the interior to be cooled equally. I would guess just from our experience that even if it's set to 37, it's much cooler toward the back than that. Good luck!
1396057
I only use it in a semi warm shop. I think it has the temps. on the can as how cold it will work. Most of my cans do.
371528
I have only used for cold items. I use 3 small ice packs and stuff is still cold after 10 hrs.
163175
Depends on your time frame and ambient temperature. It is not better or worse that other similar coolers on the market. If you are serious about keeping stuff frozen for more than a few hours you are going to need to pack with dry ice or invest in a freezer that can run off a car battery. For my purposes it keeps milk and meat cold for several days but I change put the ice every 48-72 hrs depending on how hot it is.
2179623
We only use ours for water and soda etc. It would fit a gallon of milk and it has frozen our soda once or twice so it would keep it cold enough.