We've acquired a few eskies/coolers over the years. The current tally includes two larger Willow coolers. (The lining of one has cracked near the top but it's still usable). There is a third, slightly smaller one but it was always a bit awkward to use - mainly cos it's shorter/wider, with less capacity. And there is a little, 6-can cooler also, which is rarely taken anywere cos it's just too small!
Now that we've down-sized our picnic kit, I've been thinking of buying a better-sized (and not-blue) esky.
I was vaguely tempted by Aldi's recent special buy retro coolers but they were only rated to keep cool for 12 hours. When Nick and I saw better quality coolers on special at a local camping shop, we bought one of those.
We've been very happy with our two Engel fridges, which were bought in 2010. They are in daily use at home as well as being taken away from time to time. Both are still going strong.
The Engel cooler is rated for 36 hours of cooling or something similar.
There were many colour options and the sales guy understood my need to colour match picnic and beverage cases, so helped line them up with both the beige and silver coolers for the best coordination! 😁
Our new cooler had it's first outing yesterday. At the time of purchase we bought two larger, slimline ice bricks and they are a great fit. Everything worked together very well. Hooray!
I've done a little research about our new Engel cooler (post purchase) and it seems they make excellent dry boxes also.
We'll still keep the other eskies at this stage cos there are still times when we picnic as a larger group. (The coolers are used for bulk butcher trips, also).
We found at Carnarvon that the eskies were good for storing food that would usually sit out rather than go in the fridge. Of course, fridge/freezer space is limited in the Engels, so having insulated pantry boxes was very handy!
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