FRIDGE VS COOLER

IS A 12V COMPRESSOR FRIDGE THE RIGHT SOLUTION FOR YOU?

RYAN KENNELLY

The camping industry is no stranger to refrigeration; in fact, the earliest known refrigerators were cooled with ammonia in the 1850s and worked their way into caravans by the 1920s. The lack of moving parts made them incredibly tough and allowed them to last a long time. Fast forward to modern times and there are still ammonia fridges in service today. THE CLASSIC ICE COOLER The ice cooler is just a mobile version of the classic icebox. Made popular in the 1920s, professional ice cutters would harvest ice from frozen lakes in the winter and drag it to the icehouse, where they would saw it into blocks and sell it. The basic premise of an insulated box to prolong the life of the ice goes mostly unchanged today. Ice cooler…

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