Saturday, August 13, 2005

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Portable Cooler Improvement: Keep Food Dry When preparing for a multi-day camping trip, you put a layer of ice in the bottom of a cooler, then place food on top of it, and maybe pour a little ice in around it. The problem comes as the ice melts. You get a pond of water at the bottom, and food containers start floating around in the pond, getting yucky and infiltrated with water. That got me thinking about cooler design improvements. It seems like the perfect solution would be a "grate" that sits 2-3" above the cooler bottom. The foot and ice go above, and as the ice melts, the melt water sits below. Seems simple enough. Extra points design points for: Removability (pretty obvious, just about a must-have) Adjutsable depth Tempting to think about patenting it, though it just seems too obvious not to have already been patented. But I haven't seen it in the market. 9:55:30 PM    comment []