Make Your Own Ice for the Ice Chest

By Chickenhugger from Freeport, FL

Archives: Tip: Make Your Own Ice for the Ice Chest Archived on 09/17/2009 Going to the beach or an outdoor function and need ice? Empty your ice bin once a week and store in plastic bags in your deep freezer. When it's time to fill your ice chest, you already have plenty of ice and no need to go and pay for high dollar small bags of ice. Use your empty 20 oz soda and water bottles as ice cubes, fill them with water and freeze and add to your cooler and they keep your good "usable" ice from melting as fast. It works, I do it all the time! By Sharonross0624 from Florida Feedback: RE: Make Your Own Ice For The Ice Chest I save our plastic juice bottles and freeze water in them to use in our ice chest. We live a considerable distance from the grocery store and this saves having to rush home or having things melt or get hot. They can be reused many times before the begin to leak. (07/13/2009) By Glenn'sMom Report Spam or Abuse Tip: Soda Bottles for the Ice Chest Archived on 07/09/2009 Living with Texas summers, we find ourselves using tons of ice and instead of getting expensive bags of ice, we fill up 2L cola bottles 3/4 full with water and freeze. We then use these in the cooler instead of ice and as they melt the kids love using the cold water for splashing each other or drinking. It has really worked great for us and actually lasts longer than the bagged ice did. Michelle Feedback: RE: Soda Bottles for the Ice Chest Michelle, you are so right about this! It's great isn't it? We keep several of these in our freezer during hurricane season so that it will keep our freezer safer during power failure. Ice is very hard to come by after a hurricane! Also, it's great to drop one or two of these into the bathtub with a feverish child. That way you can start with the water slightly warmer than tepid and cool it down more once the child is in the water. They don't fight the cool bath so badly if you do it that way. These are also great to use when you go fishing to keep your fish nice and cool until you return home. (07/22/2004) By Jill Report Spam or Abuse