Ezee Cubes

[kgower]

Any experience with these "blue ice cubes?

MEGA FREEZE - 10.5lb

The Ezee Freeze Bag is an eco-friendly, reusable cooling solution designed for adventurers and outdoor enthusiasts. Save money, reduce waste, and enjoy mess-free cooling with hours of long-lasting performance. Perfect for camping, fishing, picnics, and more. Ditch single-use ice and freeze the...

ezeefreeze.co

 

[2kwik4u]

I like the idea. Lord knows we use a ton of ice through the year. To the point we almost bought an industrial ice maker for the neighborhood a few years back. Uncle actually has one at his lake house for that very reason. Now that I'm driving an EV I don't visit the gas station each trip out either, so deleting yet ANOTHER stop from the day would add some convenience as well.

Cost seems high compared to regular old ice.
$4.12/lb for these, $0.64/lb for ice ($4/7lb), however that's just six uses to "break even" so maybe not that bad. Hard to say.

Curious how well they work. A good portion of the cooling of items in a cooler comes from conduction. The ice melts and increases conduction through the water, and also changes shape to "mold" around the items. With that said, the energy require to change phase of water is pretty well defined, and is the ultimate driving physics here. Proof would be in how cold the barely pop is when you pull it from the cooler.

I'm here for feedback from anyone else. Definitely intrigued.

 

[Bluewater272]

That product looks nice, saw an ad for it the other day so clearly spending their marketing budget haha. Looks useful, and helps spread the cold around vs a couple ice packs (which are useless unless all your stuff is already ice cold). We ended up buying a commercial icemaker for the house for a few hundred bucks. Will pay for itself in <2 seasons, but its already worth it for us eliminating the hassle of getting ice on beach/boat days. 10 minute stop on every trip gets old, plus ice got stupid expensive here. 3 little bags of ice is $15 now, plus whatever impulse convenience store purchases lol. Just having it around the house for parties and stuff is nice too. We leave our cooler on the boat, so just fill up a home depot bucket with ice and head out.

Not using it much in the offseason, so will probably clean it and shut it down til the spring.

 

[kgower]

As we go out on average once week in season and even once a month through the winter,it wou pay for itself in no time .
Iay have to pull the trigger and give them a try.

 

[WiskyDan]

Saw this pop up on Facebook and seems like a great idea. I make an ice run pretty early in the morning before we head out (especially when we have multiple guests) so that we can pack the coolers ahead of time and this would save me a trip.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

I’ve never been comfortable with non edible ice products in an ice chest.

Decades ago my Dad starting freezing 2 quart pop bottles to use as “ice” in our ice chests, before that we’d get 10# blocks of ice which lasts a long time and he’d use an ice pick to chunk off pieces for his High Balls.

These days I just freeze small water bottles and place them around the inside of my ice chest, I think that works out to 15 cents per bottle if I’ve got the math correct, and everything stays cold. Reuse-able, cheap and easy to clean.

I don’t care which ice chest you have, pre cooling the ice chest the night before you use it, along with everything that goes in it makes things stay cold a lot better than putting everything into a “warm” ice chest.

For the fish box nothing but ice will do there… the melted fishy smelling water goes out the drain. I’d be very surprised if the fish smell could be easily removed from these re usable cubes. To that end, the user better make sure these reusable cubes are fully clean before reuse.

If I need ice I’ll buy it at Sam’s for $3.30 for 24#, I get two bags and put them in a big ice chest and then put them in one of my chest freezers at home, I usually keep a couple bags at home, or if going out for a multi day journey that ice goes into my Otter Box performance cooler for use later in my fish box.

For $47 bucks plus tax and shipping you can freeze a lot of water bottles, or you could buy the ice bags off of Amazon and use your ice maker at home to make ice bags if you want cubed ice. Amazon.com

 

[Sherwood]

I ditched using the under seat cooler in my 210 fsh because it was pain clean. I use a soft cooler and 2 large cooler shock soft packs for drinks. The way its shapped I get contact on both sides.
I do want to get a little fridge thou. Most of time with traffic it's at 30 mins to get on the water. I figure if I turn it on when leave the house it will be cold before I get thirsty.
For fish I have 2 large hard cooler shock packs, and a couple random recycled milk, or juice jugs. They only last a couple trips but thats fine.. they where going in the trash anyways. All fish cooling packs are kept in the bait fridge /fish fridge in the garage.

 

[Sherwood]

I’ve never been comfortable with non edible ice products in an ice chest.

Decades ago my Dad starting freezing 2 quart pop bottles to use as “ice” in our ice chests, before that we’d get 10# blocks of ice which lasts a long time and he’d use an ice pick to chunk off pieces for his High Balls.

These days I just freeze small water bottles and place them around the inside of my ice chest, I think that works out to 15 cents per bottle if I’ve got the math correct, and everything stays cold. Reuse-able, cheap and easy to clean.

I don’t care which ice chest you have, pre cooling the ice chest the night before you use it, along with everything that goes in it makes things stay cold a lot better than putting everything into a “warm” ice chest.

For the fish box nothing but ice will do there… the melted fishy smelling water goes out the drain. I’d be very surprised if the fish smell could be easily removed from these re usable cubes. To that end, the user better make sure these reusable cubes are fully clean before reuse.

If I need ice I’ll buy it at Sam’s for $3.30 for 24#, I get two bags and put them in a big ice chest and then put them in one of my chest freezers at home, I usually keep a couple bags at home, or if going out for a multi day journey that ice goes into my Otter Box performance cooler for use later in my fish box.

For $47 bucks plus tax and shipping you can freeze a lot of water bottles, or you could buy the ice bags off of Amazon and use your ice maker at home to make ice bags if you want cubed ice. Amazon.com

Fish smell doesn't come off the cooler shock hard packs I use, so I keep them in the bait fridge.