Buying Guides

Walk through the seasonal aisle of any store and you will see the same ritual play out twice a year. In spring, the fans and coolers come out and the heaters get shoved to the back. In autumn, they swap places. Most households own a small pile of single season comfort gadgets, each one useful for a few months and then stored, forgotten, and...

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...