The number one thing you can do to keep everything colder in your cooler is to keep keep your ice intact. And the number one way to do that is to build an added layer of insulation. Custom cut pieces of foam insulation work well, but an even better choice if you can find it [...]

Because inexpensive coolers seldom have rubber seals between the top edge and the lid, you might want to add a cooler seal. You can make one for next to nothing with some foamy double-stick mounting tape. Use the super sticky kind made for outdoor surfaces. Clean the surface of the cooler’s top edge where it [...]

When you throw a normal cooler into the bed of a pickup truck or on the wet deck of a boat, it slides all over the place. It gets banged up and wrecks stuff around it. Heaven forbid, you should want to stand on it to get a better view of … whatever. A few [...]

The expensive rotomolded coolers offer accessories like built-in bottle openers. Is that worth paying for? We simply zip tie an old-fashioned church key to the cooler’s handle. Total cost: a buck — MAX. Always having a bottle-opener at the ready: PRICELESS.