Chill your meats?
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Simple question; When at le mans how do people keep their bbq meats chilled when camping?
My first year in 2010 the group organiser only planned for one or two bbq's so it was just kept in the boot of the car unchilled (not ideal). Last year we had electric hook up at Airtrack so borrowed an electric cool box. This year we're at Team Langoustine but no electric hook up so I was considering getting a cool box of ebay, but I assume this won't stay cool for much more than 24 hours?
Am I missing something obvious?
My first year in 2010 the group organiser only planned for one or two bbq's so it was just kept in the boot of the car unchilled (not ideal). Last year we had electric hook up at Airtrack so borrowed an electric cool box. This year we're at Team Langoustine but no electric hook up so I was considering getting a cool box of ebay, but I assume this won't stay cool for much more than 24 hours?
Am I missing something obvious?
vincegail said:
At the fish department in the Carrefour or Super-U you can buy chipped ice per kilo. I used to fill up my coolbox with bottles of beer, and then the ice between and all around the bottles.
Food stuff I put on top of the ice/bottles.
How long did this last? We were ideally looking to do one shop on the Thursday to keep us going until we leave on Monday morning...Food stuff I put on top of the ice/bottles.
vincegail said:
At the fish department in the Carrefour or Super-U you can buy chipped ice per kilo. I used to fill up my coolbox with bottles of beer, and then the ice between and all around the bottles.
Food stuff I put on top of the ice/bottles.
Same as. If you throw more ice in initially it stays frozen / cool longer. If the weather is scorchio, expect itto melt quicker. Also the make and size of coolbox will influence it.Food stuff I put on top of the ice/bottles.
If super U sell out of bags of ice they start selling frozen bottles of water instead.
We have an excellent Igloo branded cooler.
Pre-freeze some orange juice boxes and ziplock bags filled with water, and an ice maker means that despite leaving home on the Monday or Tuesday before the race we always throw away some of the original ice when we leave on the Sunday evening.
Pre-freeze some orange juice boxes and ziplock bags filled with water, and an ice maker means that despite leaving home on the Monday or Tuesday before the race we always throw away some of the original ice when we leave on the Sunday evening.
t] we use the fridge in the caravan [/posh tIve done it this way in the past,
Hard plastic cool box with plug in cooling fan on the top. Freeze up everything first, including the Ice packs, then plug lead into cigarette lighter to keep frozen on the way down.
I also take a fully charged spare 12 Volt car battery and then hook the Ice box lead onto that. it works for a couple of days
Only thing is there is not loads of space in those hard cool boxes 
Planning is key
Hard plastic cool box with plug in cooling fan on the top. Freeze up everything first, including the Ice packs, then plug lead into cigarette lighter to keep frozen on the way down.
I also take a fully charged spare 12 Volt car battery and then hook the Ice box lead onto that. it works for a couple of days
Only thing is there is not loads of space in those hard cool boxes Planning is key 
dredgey said:
Both good suggestions, and I could take the battery out of my other car for the trip I guess
I have a couple of those cooler bags in the loft which I've never used before but I assume they keep things cool for all of a few hours?
We have a couple of Thermos branded cool bags (zip top to sealed) and they keep things chilled for a day easily with just a couple of those blue freezer packs. Would easily last they journey down.I have a couple of those cooler bags in the loft which I've never used before but I assume they keep things cool for all of a few hours?
We have used various things from a chest freezer on a geni in the back of the tranibago, to the aformentioned bags of ice and frozen bottles of mineral water \9this does serve a double purpose) then last year we took the leap and went dry ice. Bought 20kg in 1kg slices for around £60 picked up from Basingstoke on the Wed afternoon and travleled down with it in foam transport boxes, we the placed a small lump now and then into our cool boxes and this kept food frozen, and as we found freeze a bootle of spirits in just over an hour. we then used out trusty fold up beer cooler with water in and dropped blocks in as required over the weekend, ice cold beers all weekend and still had some left over on sunday night for making dry ice bombs. just remember to use gloves to handle it -76 is a tad cold.
pie_boy69 said:
We have used various things from a chest freezer on a geni in the back of the tranibago, to the aformentioned bags of ice and frozen bottles of mineral water \9this does serve a double purpose) then last year we took the leap and went dry ice. Bought 20kg in 1kg slices for around £60 picked up from Basingstoke on the Wed afternoon and travleled down with it in foam transport boxes, we the placed a small lump now and then into our cool boxes and this kept food frozen, and as we found freeze a bootle of spirits in just over an hour. we then used out trusty fold up beer cooler with water in and dropped blocks in as required over the weekend, ice cold beers all weekend and still had some left over on sunday night for making dry ice bombs. just remember to use gloves to handle it -76 is a tad cold.
Great idea, very Heston Blumenthal! Where in Basingstoke did you get it from? (I live in Oakley just outside Bstoke)Gassing Station | Le Mans | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff