Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
6.120:

> On Sat 05 Jul 2008 06:05:27p, Jean B. told us...
>
>> aem wrote:
>>> The dry ice thread made me wonder whether other people make any
>>> effort to provide cold storage when they do particular kinds of
>>> shopping. The fishmonger I go to is about a 20-minute drive from the
>>> house. When I'm going there I take a small artificial freezer block
>>> (blue ice?) out of the freezer and put it in a small Igloo-type
>>> cooler and put it in the car. Then I use that to hold whatever I
>>> get at the fishmonger for the ride home. I'm in the habit of
>>> putting the cooler and frozen block in the car when I go to the
>>> Asian maket, too, since I never know what I might find there. Does
>>> anyone else do a similar thing? -aem
>>
>> Yup. That's what I do if I plan to pick up something that is
>> perishable. I might augment that with some free ice from Whole
>> Foods.
>>
>
> Living in Arizona and not always anticipating when we might want to
> buy something frozen or refrigerated. We keep a good sized cooler in
> the trunk of the car. If we know ahead of time we'll be making these
> kinds of purchases, we dump in 15-20 lbs. of ice that we keep stored
> in the freezer (surplus from our ice maker). If the purchases are not
> anticipated, we buy a block of dry ice at the supermarket. Nothing
> frozen or chilled survives long in 110°+ heat without some help.
>

Dry ice makes for a perfect Swamp cooler for those bereft of air
conditioning.

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