Thread: Salt ice

Originally Posted by 2post

I’d be putting salt water into coke bottles and freezing them they last for days and nothing gets wet.

I use the Puhoi plastic milk bottles filled with sea water, they are quite square and stack reasonably well.. I seem to get plenty of spaces with coke bottles. I use a blue and green cap system, the green cap signifies salt water, the blue caps are fresh water which i can drink... Apparently salt ice has a much lower salt content than sea water hence the sea water which should last longer ?

Originally Posted by MB

There's a few in the north. Don't get too excited, it's not a hunting trip, it's a family trip plus a bit of fishing to keep the troops fed.

Lane’s cove?


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Yup.

Thread resurrection. Just back from a 48 hour trip in warm conditions and less than a cupful of salt ice melted. Pre-cooling certainly seems to make a difference. I loaded the chilly bin the night before the trip with ice blocks, then removed them and loaded up with salt ice and food just before the trip.

dry ice works a treat, it can refreeze the entire bin solid again as the salt ice drips over it so that may be of assistance to you. I had mine sitting in the sun for 4 days and and the beers were still frozen solid, they were room temp when I put them in there.

Are you going fishing outside the harbour?

Chucking frozen bottles into the bin the night before to pre cool the bin makes a big difference.

Nice spot that. Even fishing off the rocks nearby can be productive.