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Designing A Quality Product For The Longest Ice Retention

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When you sit and see the outdoor industry being flooded with all these new cooler brands, you wonder what really sets the coolers apart? After all they are still just and insulated box or cup that keeps you drink cold. The main difference between the different brands is the type of insulation or the quality of the seals and workmanship to make a quality product that allows little energy to escape. There are a few questions that we have that we hope to find the answer too hear they are in the following few sentences. With the high prices of these coolers, what is so special besides the quality? Does the type of insulation really affect the performance of his cooler? We are about to find out which cooler is the best to buy if you are willing to splurge and spend the money. To test this question of what brand and insulation type allows for the longest ice retention, we are going to test six different brands coolers and see what performs the best. The way that we are going to test the ice retention part is simple. We will fill each cooler with the same amount of ice by volume of all of the coolers. For example, if we have a 60 quart cooler and we fill it with 60 pounds of crushed ice, then we would fill the one gallon cooler with one pound of crushed ice. This allows for their to be a constant. We will then leave all of the coolers that we are testing in the same place. Next, to check the temperature of the inside of the cooler we will open the coolers at the same time every

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