Keeping the ice chest cold

[floattuber]

Not a terribly important subject but I thought it would be a fun one.

To keep the ice chest cold on extended camping trips do you want to empty the water from the melting ice or keep it in there?

My thoughts are to keep the cold water in the ice chest because the sun has to heat up the mass of the water and the ice. But the flip side is that water is a better conductor of the heat so it ends up melting the remaining ice faster.

 

[MortenA]

OOPS missed a NOT in the 2 line should have said (im NOT even sure...)

Morten

 

[MedicineEng]

Why don't drink all the beer upfront? Like that you don't need the ice chest anymore...Like I say when I come across a bad wine:"The diffcult part is the first bottle"...

 

[floattuber]

But then what do you drink for the rest of the week?