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

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.

--
Jean B.

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.

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"aem" > wrote in message
...
> 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

In the summer I'll take a few ice packs. Even if things don't fit in the
cooler, we have a few plastic totes for the monthly shopping at BJ's. I pack
all the perishables together and put the ice on top of them.

Last week we went shopping and had about $200 worth of meats and other
refrigerated item. My wife decided she better go to the ER. The hospital is
10 miles north of where we were but I drove 20 miles south to home, unloaded
the car and then drove back 30 miles north. Good thing I did because I was
there for 4 hours until they decided to admit her..

On Sat 05 Jul 2008 07:28:23p, Edwin Pawlowski told us...

>
> "aem" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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
>
> In the summer I'll take a few ice packs. Even if things don't fit in
> the cooler, we have a few plastic totes for the monthly shopping at
> BJ's. I pack all the perishables together and put the ice on top of
> them.
>
> Last week we went shopping and had about $200 worth of meats and other
> refrigerated item. My wife decided she better go to the ER. The
> hospital is 10 miles north of where we were but I drove 20 miles south
> to home, unloaded the car and then drove back 30 miles north. Good
> thing I did because I was there for 4 hours until they decided to admit
> her..

Ed, I hope your wife is doing well...

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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


I try to remember to keep a cooler in the trunk all summer and throw in
a couple of blue ices before I leave home. It's a very good thing for
dairy products, too. I don 't always remember, much like I don't always
remember to take my cloth tote bags into the stores.

gloria p

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?

Our store is a twenty-minute walk from home. If I'm buying fish (which I
don't do often), I either take a cooler or buy a bag or two of frozen
veggies especially to use as "ice" for the fish, then I make those
veggies for supper, too.

Serene
--
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Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> 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.

I keep a large but cheap bare styrofoam cooler in the trunk during the hot
months. I'll either just bunch the frozen/refrigerated stuff in there for
a short time or grab a bag of ice at the store if I'm going to be out and
about for longer.


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On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:53:58 -0700 (PDT), 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

Yes. We live over an hour from Dallas in a town with only one
groceery store. Most visits to Big D for business or whatever reason
will involve food shopping at Central Market or one of the Asian
stores there or the Farmers' Market. Typically we take a small cooler
with blue ice and ask for some ice from the meat/fish counter when we
make our purchases.
--

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"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>
> Ed, I hope your wife is doing well...
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright


Thanks. Turned out to be minor but since she is on Coumadin they take a lot
of precautions.

On Sat 05 Jul 2008 09:21:31p, Edwin Pawlowski told us...

>
> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>
>> Ed, I hope your wife is doing well...
>>
>> --
>> Wayne Boatwright
>
>
> Thanks. Turned out to be minor but since she is on Coumadin they take a
> lot of precautions.

Glad to hear it, Ed. Strong blood thinners can be tricky to manage. It
was a wise choice.


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"aem" > wrote in message
...
> 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

I have a collapsable cooler and a Keep Cool bag that is use when I'm going
to be getting meat, fish, or poultry when the weather is warm or I'm going
to be making more than one stop. The collapsable cooler is amazing, IMO,
because my mom and I packed it with frozen walleye when we were coming back
from MN, and because of delays our luggage didn't get home until the next
evening (so it was in the cooler for 36+hours)...and the fish was still
frozen.

The Keep Cool bag is an insulated bag...I use it by itself sometimes...but
if it's a particularly warm day, I'll use a frozen gel bag with it.

kimberly

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.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:53:58 -0700 (PDT), aem >
wrote:

> I'm in the habit of putting the cooler


When you live in the south...that is something we have been doing for
30 years or more.

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

We buy our meat at Sam's Club in Brownsville which is about 30 miles
away. Since we have only two climates: warm and hot, we purchased a huge
black insulated bag from Sam's Club several years ago. We use it to back
cold stuff to take home from there. I also use it to transport ice cream
and frozen stuff from the local supermarket as it can get really hot in
the trunk of my little car. The bag stays in the trunk of the car.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

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

I don't travel too far to the store but I do have an insulated bag I
bought from Trader Joe's. I just grab it with my other bags and if I
have milk and other frozen stuff it all goes in that bag. I have
noticed it does help a bit.

--
Queenie

*** Be the change you wish to see in the world ***

hahabogus wrote:
> 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.
>
Didn't I read years ago about suffocation by dry ice?

Unrelated to that comment, I wish I had ready access to dry ice
here. One nice thing about living in Tokyo was that when you
bought ice cream, it was packed in dry ice for the journey home.

--
Jean B.

On Mon 07 Jul 2008 09:26:01a, Jean B. told us...

> hahabogus wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Didn't I read years ago about suffocation by dry ice?

You certainly could suffocate if it was in an enclosed and unventilated
area.

> Unrelated to that comment, I wish I had ready access to dry ice
> here. One nice thing about living in Tokyo was that when you
> bought ice cream, it was packed in dry ice for the journey home.
>



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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

I certainly wouldn't bother for a 20 minute trip unless it
were ice cream that might melt. Anything else, even in summer,
it not a problem. If you're at all worried, just put it in
the car with you (I assume you have air-conditioning) instead
of the trunk. Of course reverse that in the winter. ;-)
If I were going to be on the road for a hour or so I would
probably bring a cooler for certain things, or at least an
insulated bag.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

On Jul 5, 8:53*pm, 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

I go shopping riding a bicycle. At most I expect the frozen corn to
keep the food cool. For anything less than 30 degrees C and no ice
cream I just don't worry. I just make a point of being home in half
an hour or so.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada