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Storing ice overnight without a freezer?

  • 13-05-2011 10:48am
    #1
    actuallylike
    Registered Users Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭


    How do,
    My mates are running a little mini festival tomorrow and they need ice for it. I can get them two black bags of it for them but only tonight. The bags would be too much for any of our deep freezers so I was wondering where we could stash it tonight so it won't melt? Would keeping it in a container like a clean wheelie bin overnight help or in an empty bath? I live in dublin so any ideas about streams or lakes is out of the window.
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  • #2
    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    Any large container and put some water mixed in with the ice and add some salt I think is the option I heard. You won't have nice ice cubes after but if it's just for keeping bottles/cans cold it will work.


  • #3
    actuallylike
    Registered Users Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭actuallylike


    Cheers for that, I reckon a swift few stabs in the morning will free up most cubes. We'll try putting the black bags in salted cold water so and see how that goes, obvioulsy keeping the top of the bags out of the water, don't want salty ice :)


  • #4
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Found this. If you have a funkload of newspaper handy!?

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081008173648AAh8SD9

    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_keep_ice_from_melting_without_a_freezer

    All about the insulation.


  • #5
    shrapnel222
    Registered Users Posts: 3,118 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    schemingbohemia wrote: »
    Any large container and put some water mixed in with the ice and add some salt I think is the option I heard. You won't have nice ice cubes after but if it's just for keeping bottles/cans cold it will work.

    you put salt to melt the ice and lower the temperature of the water. by tomorrow, it'll just be cold water.

    if you want to still have ice cubes by tomorrow, put all the ice in a big container outside in the shade. the more ice you have the better it'll keep. don't put them in water or they'll melt a lot faster.

    either that or tell your mates to buy it in the supermarket on the day, it's dirt cheap.


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