When to Ice

[LEAKYSEALS951]

You guys talkin' bout chilling beer? or body parts?

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by oldE

Dump the water as it is above freezing. If the new ice has less mass to cool, it will be more efficient.

Best
Les

If there is ice in it, it is probably exactly at freezing.

Thing cool fast when in contact with the water. Keep some water and add more ice.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

You guys talkin' bout chilling beer? or body parts?

You keep body parts in a freezer, not a cooler.

[Tervuren]

After the reading the thread -

If my objective is cold drinks in a cooler -

Drain enough water to make space for the ice to add.
Unless, that water is not cold anymore.
Then maybe dump some, but not all.
Get some of that ice at the bottom melted faster.

A lot would depend on warm water from a long sit vs ice has melted and a cold water.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Originally Posted by red-beard

You keep body parts in a freezer, not a cooler.

AHA! So THAT's what I've been doing wrong the whole time

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by masraum

But that water will accelerate the melting of the ice.

You WANT the ice to melt. Melting of ice is an endothermic reaction, ie it absorbs heat. The heat it absorbs is from the beer or whatever in the cooler.

[DRONE]

I told the wife I would ask everyone here, she disagrees with keeping water in the cooler. I've always dumped some just to make room for the new ice, why waste all of the 33- 35 deg. cold water is my reasoning for doing so.

[thor66]

everybody, just chill, ok?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

You WANT the ice to melt. Melting of ice is an endothermic reaction, ie it absorbs heat. The heat it absorbs is from the beer or whatever in the cooler.

Assuming you've got warm stuff that you're trying to get cold. But, if that's the case, you also want as much ice as possible because the phase change will absorb the most heat while retaining the lowest temp. If you had 10# of water at 32.1º and dropped a bunch of warm beer in it, you may not cool the beer to your satisfaction. If you put the beer in, and then as much ice as you could fit, and then some water (such that ice and water = 10#), the melting ice would rapidly cool the beer and you'd still have a bunch of ice to keep the water and beer cold.

THe more ice the merrier. Water to fill in the gaps without displacing ice (assuming you'd adding cold water. You don't want to add too much warm water or it'll cause the ice to melt. You want the heat from the beer to melt the ice, not heat from the water.

[Steve Carlton]

You're shoveling the ice to keep things cold. The opposite of shoveling coal to keep things hot.

[sc_rufctr]

I thought this thread was about a sprained ankle.

I just add ice to the melt water. If the level get's too high I drain some out - Easy-peasy.

[Steve Carlton]

About 28 degrees in the water that night... brrrr!

[masraum]