Wil this keep a cake cold after picking it up at the grocery store for an hour long drive?
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Yes, it should. I picked up a coconut cream pie from a bakery, in 90 degree heat (Phoenix), and had a 40 minute drive. It was still perfect.
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Yes, the cake should be fine for an hour. Actually I put a gallon of milk in our cooler and accidentally left it in the trunk of our Prius overnight. The next morning it was still cool!
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I travel about 1 hour each way to the store and back. I am assuming you are wanting to transport an ice cream cake. If that is the case I would freeze 2 - 20 ounce. Soda bottles to let the cooler get cold. If the day time temperature is in the mid-80s or above I would cover the box with an old quilt or blanket for additional indulagoon. I think this foldable cooler is a fantastic product.
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After reading comments about transporting an ice cream cake, I need to add this comment. I transported a Dairy Queen Blizzard cake on Mother's Day to my mom's an hour and a half away and it was totally fine! The temp was in the 80's that day. You should be just fine transporting your cake for an hour in this cooler.
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Gee Tori - as you can see from the answers, your question is kind of, shall we say, simplistic? What kind of cake, what is the expected temperature at the time, can you fit an ice pack or block in with it, is the vehicle air conditioned if necessary? Based on all the information you decided to not provide I can definitively say that the answer is: Probably
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I put the image on about a day and a half before I served it and kept it in the garage in freezing New York until I served it - no bleeding or melting. Just keep the cake in a cool place and it should be fine.
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You got a cold fridge! Not to me. But be careful not to fill your container to the brim, the ice cream can work its way into the lid. Don't try and take the lid apart: you will render it useless. Leaving you with a glorified bucket.
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The refrigeration unit gets very cold. I usually empty the canister when the ice cream just collects on the dasher because it is so stiff. I'm going to guess that is as cold as it is going to get because the ice cream is not contacting the outer canister. As an example, I made some salted caramel which I then placed in a deep freezer at -11 F. It never did get solid because I added too much salt which was not the freezer's fault. Sincerely, JAH
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It is okay to order in advance you always keep image stored at room temperature in a cool dark place until ready to apply to cake, then simply removed image from bag and place inside your freezer for less then a minute, to help you remove from plastic backing sheet, then apply to your frosted cake.Thank you.Natalie
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No, but we shop at Costco 70 miles away and it keeps ice cream almost frozen hard and milk and butter perfectly cold. Love it...and have 2 of them. No more trowing ice away.
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Yes. It will stay warm for hours. Just make sure you wash the cooler as soon as practical.
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If you buy it by the case, yes , It will keep better if you freeze it. One or two will keep several days in the fridge.
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I have only used it for cold items. With an ice pack it stays cold for about 6 hours.
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I use it to transport my smoothies from home to work and by the time I open the container for lunch, the smoothie is still frozen hard. So I can imagine that milk will stay cold for lunchtime.
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Technically the answer is no. Because the cooler isn't a freezer the inside temperature will be higher than a freezer. But with that said, this will keep things cold for a long time. I brought this to the desert once and after sitting in the sun for days there was still some ice left, no much ice, but impressive none the less.
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No, dont put it in the freezer. Just regular refrigeration will be fine, and believe me it will last.
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I would estimate that it keeps it cold for about 3-4 hours. And no, the ice pack doesn't have to touch the food.
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Yes, I have even kept frozen food sealed in this cooler overnight and found it still cold in the morning.
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Yes, once it is opened i believe it must be kept cold. It does not need refrigeration while still sealed though.
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Jen It depends on the recipe you use and how cold your freezer is. With a good recipe your ice cream wont get icy unless you freeze and thaw it, and freeze and thaw it a bunch of times. You can avoid that by storing it in single or small serving containers. Many ice creams get very hard after a night in the freezer but 10 seconds in a microwave softens them up fine. For more tips and recipes check out my website www.iloveicecream.net
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It takes a couple of hours to freeze, but if you out the dry ice into a cooler with this it probably would. The real question is why not use the dry ice?