Buying Guides

Most people buying a cooler never look past the ice retention rating and the price. But if you store food, beverages, fish, game meat, or anything else intended for consumption inside that cooler, the plastic standard used in its construction is one of the most important specifications on the page. The difference between a cooler built to FDA food-grade standards and one built to...

You rinse the cooler, scrub it with dish soap, let it air out for a week, and it still smells like last summer's fish. If you've lived this scenario, you've encountered one of the most frustrating and least-discussed aspects of cooler ownership: odour absorption at the material level. The problem isn't your cleaning technique. It's your cooler's chemistry. Not all plastics behave the same way...