IGLOO Outdoor Maxcold Cool Box

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The best cool boxes have features that improve portability, such as wheels and extendable handles. The worst have uncomfortable handles and are heavy to carry. Durability The MaxCold 40 Roller cooler will have the wheels situated on long ways while the MaxCold Quantum 52will have them centered.

Being able to use your cooler(s) for a variety of purposes and having different sizes available to you is a sign of a successful ice chest series. The Igloo MaxCold coolers come in all shapes and sizes to keep drinks and food cold for as long as you need them to be.Some cooler hunters are looking for hard coolers that can handle heavy loads and the worst that nature has to throw at them. Others prefer smaller ice chests that they can carry over their shoulders or under their arms for a break at work or during an athletic activity with friends on a day off. The MaxCold collection takes both groups into consideration. No products found.Hard coolers are available with the MaxCold, just in case you have a hunting trip coming up with plans to bring home big game. Some are big enough to carry on your own or with a friend, while others come with wheels so that all you need to do is pull the handle. The hard ice chests are tough enough to handle bad weather and keep your hunting and fishing game cold for later. The soft coolers help you lunches for work or a trip to the theme park keep you energized for what the day has in store for you.

The updated MaxCold styling has been out for longer than it has for the hard-sided coolers. We think the facelift was a great choice and think that these soft-sided products look quite nice. The smaller coolers trended downward, with the smallest 40-quart cooler producing around 35 to 60 hours of potential ice life (depending on conditions).

Igloo MaxCold 62 QT Cool Box on Wheels Product Details

However, they are a noticeable step down from Yeti in terms of quality, performance, and durability. These coolers aren’t designed to handle grizzly bears or easily keep ice for a week at a time (outside of the largest sizes creeping up there). Electric cool boxes Don’t require ice but they do require power. You either plug the box into your car (12V), the most common type of charger, or into the mains by a UK plug. They require constant power, though will still keep contents cool for a few hours if you unplug. You can get battery-powered boxes, but they’re less common and far more expensive.

One of our favorite things about these coolers (specifically the larger sizes) is the latches. Typically on budget coolers, you will find sub-par latches. These latches not only can be on the weak side but also don’t always provide a good “bite”. This can result in air being able to escape outside of the cooler more easily. The Igloo Maxcold 150 and 165 cool box features up to 7 days ice retention thanks to THERMECOOL performance along with cool riser technology helps keep your food and drink cold, fresh and safe from the elements. The unique Max Cold blue identifies that these coolers are, in fact, Max Cold. Beyond that, there isn’t a lot to them other than some subtle aesthetic lines on the outside. We are glad that more sizes have undergone the recent visual facelift but there could still be some improvement. Also, some other color choices are floating around but they are few and far between. But when you buy a Yeti, you are buying something that will handle just about anything that you or Mother Nature can throw at it. It is an investment that should last many years. As is the norm, the largest cooler tends to perform the best. The 165-quart comes in at a pretty impressive 110 to 140 hours of ice life. On the upper end, that is nearly 6 days!The YETI Hopper M20 is the best of the best, but it costs over five times more than the Igloo, so it seems a little ridiculous to recommend it here. Still, if quality is your utmost consideration, then the YETI is the way. Our tests showed some key differences between these two products that are worth considering before buying: The only product that offers multiple color choices is the cooler totes. And even those come in just two: a patterned blue and a patterned red. There’s a nifty metal bottle opener attached to one strap, and there’s some nylon loops on the other strap if you want to attach a carabiner. The current selection, while a bit limited, does hit most of the typically desired size ranges. You have a small cooler, medium cooler, large cooler, and giant cooler (per our internal storage volume definitions). And for good measure, you also have some wheeled options thrown in. And the largest size, the 165-quart, is a sort of “hybrid” Igloo cooler in that it combines MaxCold technology with Igloo Contour technology.

Now that we have gone over a few of the more popular convenience-related features, let’s focus on the features that help to prolong ice life.This can come in handy for people who work at an office or spend their shifts outside doing heavy lifting. That way, you won’t have to spend more than you need to on an Igloo option such as the BMX or Sportsman.