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Everbilt 52-Quart High-Performance Cooler with Lockable Lid $79.5
$79.50
$182.50
Here's a cooler that is less than half price. May be regional. It works in Arizona. Use an Arizona store and ship to home.
The 52 quart is $79.59 and the 36 quart is $64.50
https://www.homedepot.c
The 52 quart is $79.59 and the 36 quart is $64.50
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There's a couple other YouTube comparisons out there. It seems that the brand names consistently outperform the lower end stuff, but not to a percentage that equals the price difference.
Having said all that, ask yourself what you use this for. If you're consistently going out hunting in a remote location and need ice for a week, it's possibly worth the premium to get a small increase in performance. If you just need to hold ice over the weekend camping trip, pretty much anything (probably even stuff cheaper than this) will suffice.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ozark-...y/49229404
Plenty of reviews and comparisons for that one on the web.
https://www.reviewed.co
You can get these at Walmart for 117 bucks. Still a $40 dollar savings is great on this specific cooler. I compare it to the Lifetime cooler which are NON Rotomolded coolers with great insulation.
Is it as good as Rtic and Yeti, NO. but for the money you spend and what you get , its worth it.
If you need the extreme ice retention scenarios then your going with Yeti and not even thinking of anything else.
Unless you are buying a cooler to not open frequently I don't see the reasonable difference.
One exception is the yeti with wheels and pull handle! Game changer!!
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For the record, the additional ice melt in the larger container would be the expected behavior. If you're using an equivalent volume of ice in each container (which they did) then the smaller container would have less airspace in in, and you would therefore expect that in a perfectly insulated system, the result would be less ice melt to cool that smaller volume of air, which would bring the system to equilibrium.
In this specific test, that's exactly what happened - the 26 quart Everbilt had roughly 2 extra quarts of airspace, and that extra airspace is most likely responsible for most of the additional melting. This is one of the reasons it's extremely difficult to draw conclusive results when testing differently sized coolers.
I'm not suggesting that the Everbilt has superior insulation, but instead that we can't reasonably draw the conclusion that Yeti has superior insulation with only the Youtube test in question to go on (and for the record, that was the only comparative test I was able to find too.)
I also have the original RTIC 45 (first gen) and the Ozark Trail 52. I do a lot of camping and fly fishing from a drift boat or Flycraft. Sometimes camping on the river for multiple days. The key is to have more than one cooler. You should keep all your perishable items in a good cooler and only open it when you absolutely need to open it. You should put all your non perishable items that need to be refrigerated in a separate cooler(s). I usually have the RTIC holding the meat, eggs, etc., and then have one medium cooler holding the beer/drinks, and then one more cooler holding nothing but ice. Especially if I am going for more than 3 days in the summer.
I got both of these because I am considering mounting a swivel seat on the lid of it and replacing my pedestal seat in the front of my drift boat. It is cheap enough that I can find a use for the one that might not be the right size or I have the option of taking it back to HD.
Unless you are buying a cooler to not open frequently I don't see the reasonable difference.
One exception is the yeti with wheels and pull handle! Game changer!!
Yep, this is one of the fallacies of these types of coolers. Here's where I've noticed the difference though. Let's say I go to a buddy's place on 80 degree Friday night and bring the cooler with a bunch of beers, and a decent amount of ice. The cooler and maybe 1/2 the beers come home with me, and I just toss it in the garage, and leave it. On Wednesday, there's a pretty good chance that the rotomolded cooler would still going to have cold beers or ice, while my Coleman Marine cooler would likely be at room temperature by the end of the day on Saturday.
If you're camping, and you only have one rotomolded and one normal cooler, you will without a doubt maximize your ice by putting the items that will be accessed frequently into the normal cooler, and the ones that will be accessed less frequently into the rotomolded cooler.
If you're camping, and you only have one rotomolded and one normal cooler, you will without a doubt maximize your ice by putting the items that will be accessed frequently into the normal cooler, and the ones that will be accessed less frequently into the rotomolded cooler.
Yeah I agree it is nice when I get home from camping and throw the cooler on the deck the couple of days the drinks are still cold, water with ice left, but ice cold. Because once home everyone goes to the fridge. Sadly the beer is usually gone in the cooler by that point but if wanted a juice box it would be delicious still. Great point on that