YETI coolers who has one?

kooty wrote:

I could care less what cooler you guys have as long as the beer you offer me is cold.

Now there is an exceptional answer.

mplspug wrote:

I believe that is how the cheap coolers ARE made. Plastic over Styrofoam.

Most don’t have styrofoam or any insulation whatsoever. The only ‘inexpensive’ ones around here that do, are the Coleman Extremes.

I don’t know about their cooler – I just didn’t buy into all the Hype originally. I got a Yetti stainless Rambler tumbler as a gift about 6 months ago. All I can say is if their coolers are 1/2 as good as the tumbler is – They are well worth the money if you have the need for one. The tumblers are incredible. I can fill it 1/2 full of ice and fill it with my drink of choice. After 24 hrs of sitting in the cup holder on the couch it still has enough good ice to poor myself another drink and the following morning it still has ice left. I liked mine so much that I went out to buy another bigger one. A sales person as a sporting goods store said that the Tervis brand are just as good and cost slightly less so I bought a Tervis. Mostly because they had cooler designs at the store I was at. The Tervis is ok – But its not a yeti. I tested both side by side and the ice melted much sooner in the Tervis.

Its funny. Some here say the Coleman coolers are great and others say they are the worst. Oh well everyone has different opinions.

Yeti tumblers suck compared to Thermos.

Unless you are going places that you have limited access to ice for long periods of time ( Like I tend to be starting to ) its hard to justify the cost of the Yetti’s. But if you truly have the need, then I think you just need to look at the purchase price as a good long term investment. I know I’m going to be saving to get myself one prior to my spring Canada fishing trip. With food to keep cold for a week and the nearest ice over a 3 Hr round trip away I think I can justify the cost. Our current option is to bring several extra big coolers just for keeping flozen milk jugs in and then always keeping track of the temp in the coolers that have the perishable food. On cool years we can make it work – On hot years its always touch and go or a long run to get ice towards the end of the trip. some years we ate up all the perishable food a few days early and held onto the remaining ice to keep the beer and mixes cold – A guy has to keep his priorities straight. I can live off of Oatmeal and granola bars for 2-3 days if needed but I cant live with warm beer or mixed drinks !!!!

biggill wrote:

Yeti tumblers suck compared to Thermos.

That’s hard to believe but I may have to buy one and do a side by side test to see if you are correct

The ozark trail tumblers are just as good as yeti and will still have ice left the next morning. I have a yeti one also. Ozark trail is about 1/4 the cost at Wally World and there coozies are just as good as yetti also

for those of you talking about ice savings have you considered frozen bottles of water? I haven’t purchased ice for anything but cocktails in years. Have a stable of different sized bottles in the freezer at all times. When i hop in the boat or go camping i throw however many i think i need in the cooler and im good to go. When i get home and its melted it goes right back in the freezer and is ready to go for tomorrow.

Coletrain27 wrote:

The ozark trail tumblers are just as good as yeti and will still have ice left the next morning. I have a yeti one also. Ozark trail is about 1/4 the cost at Wally World and there coozies are just as good as yetti also

Totally agree. My ozark trail tumbler is every bit as good as my yeti and for $6

biggill wrote:

Yeti tumblers suck compared to Thermos.

The Pelicans are nice. The price is not, but if you can finagle employee pricing…

We have a Coleman extreme cooler which we take to Rainy lake for 4 to 5 day trips. In past years we have had very warm trips with highs being 85 – 87 all everyday, the Coleman extreme did just as good as our friends Yeti’s and Bison coolers. I believe limiting the amount of times you open and close a cooler and having good ice really helps for long trips. I take empty country crock butter containers and freeze water in them to make my own block ice, ice from a convenience store never seems to last as long as ice from home.

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

The Pelicans are nice. The price is not, but if you can finagle employee pricing…

Yeah, comparable to the yeti for sure. I just wish I had a sealable lid. Looks like they make them now. Can’t beat $5 for a tumbler.

I bought a 45 Quart “Vibe” brand cooler for around $160 last year. Very comparable to a Yeti in my opinion and about $140 cheaper. Heavy, but keeps ice for a long long time. It also has a fish measuring ruler on it which I thought was cool.

I have an igloo 5 or 6 day cooler ? – it is my second favorite and it holds ice for 3 days ~ usually.

My yeti 65 holds for 5-8 days depending on ambient temp and how much I open it.

The RTIC coffee cup (tumbler) is da chit! I have two and I alternate them. I have to put an ice cube in each cup of coffee so I can drink it and it stays the perfect temp for a long time. I’m a slow coffee drinker (unless there is peppermint schnapps in it). I also have the 20 & 30 oz RTIC cups and the bike bottle too. All good performance.

RTIC has the most horrendous customer service I’ve ever encountered, so I refuse to give them any more of my cash.

How are the lids on the RTIC tumblers? I have the Yeti slider lid on a tumbler I got at work and really like it. Also, do the Yeti lids fit the RTIC tumblers?

We have Yeti tumblers. I am sure they all work the same, I mean they are all basically small versions of Thermos that everyone had a long time ago, except I think those old coffee Thermos had glass lining?

I can leave a finished drink in the Lanai overnight in summer and there will be cubes in the morning.

We have the bigger tervis tumblers too. Same thing, they’ll keep ice over night even without a lid.

This was the most recent cooler post I could find. After complaining about my junk small cooler for too long. The wife sold it at a yard sale this summer. Now I need to do something. I thanked her for that, seriously!!
Mostly a road trip/day cooler. There and back and day in the boat. I refuse to buy convenience store drinks on the road, $2 for a bottle of water. Since I quit drinking beer, A day consists of a juice bottle of iced tea and a couple 12 oz bottles, maybe lunch. No interest in Yeti. They are obviously overpriced, when they are the same price as 2 years ago. What hasn’t increased price in the last 2 years. And I’m protecting ice, not the Crown Jewels. I always felt an unattended Yeti would surely be stolen. Also, the rubber buckles are a chore with arthritic fingers. I try when I can to buy products made in the U.S. Looking to go mid-range. Grizzly Rtic maybe. Got over $100 in Scheels reward cards to soften the blow. Looking roto molded, not soft side. Prefer $200 or less. With the price of ice some places, I find some value in a better cooler. We put an icemaker in our new upright freeze. With the one in the fridge. I have enough ice for a smaller cooler daily if needed. Without buying any.

Went same route as you 2 yes ago, ended up hating the roto molded. Way too heavy and bulky and latches ended up breaking on a nicer igloo.

Went to Dicks and they had a soft sided backpack cooler, 30 size I think, has kicked serious butt so far for like $80 or something. Light portable and all the pockets do well for headlamps, granola bars, sun/bug screen etc. I won’t go back to a hard side for anything else except bigger trips and smalllunch box for work.

I have a 70 quart Pelican and a 35 quart pelican, both of which I got for next to nothing from people looking to get rid of them. I use them specifically for long weekends at the cabin when lots of people are there and the fridge inside is already full. They stay in the bed of the truck or on the deck, they do not move. When the 70 quart is full of food and ice it’s easily 150 lbs.

I also sanitize and use them for deer processing in the fall/ winter.

For all other cooler needs I now use a soft sided cooler from AO coolers. Mine I got from Lund Boats, but you can order them directly from AO I think. They are excellent and just the right size for a day trip. They keep ice very well. They will leak water out slowly if you flip them upside down but I don’t particularly care. Mine ran me about $60 at the Lund pro shop in New York Mills.

stevenoak wrote:

Mostly a road trip/day cooler. There and back and day in the boat.

I have an RTIC 30 soft cooler and use it for exactly what you want a cooler for. Day trips and occasionally it does a multi-day stint as a boat cooler.

Fantastic cooler, best I’ve ever had. Will hold ice for 2-3 days even if left in the sun. If I start a weekend with cold drinks and the cooler full of ice, there will still be ice left in it on Sunday night, even if it’s left outside the whole time. Obviously, a roto cooler would be better, but it would also be much bigger and much heavier.

I love the fact that the soft coolers aren’t as freaking heavy as the rotomolded coolers. Yes, I have a roto cooler as well and I use it faithfully twice a year for the times when I need 1 week of ice retention. That’s all they are good for IMO The weight of the roto coolers is just crazy and it makes them big and clunky for their capacity.

Rtic for me. That said, Walmart has a rotomoulded cooler that seems pretty much identical to the others at a much friendlier price point.

Another RTIC user here and have nothing but good things to say. Yeti quality for a fraction of the price. I got the RTIC ultra light weight 52 quart and love it. Also have a 20 qt pelican that I got off facebook marketplace for cheap and love that one for day trip uses.

One nice thing about the RTIC is it came with a middle divider that doubles as a re-usable freezable icepack thing and that is awesome. It also came with a wire basket that sits on top and covers half the cooler. I love both of those accessories that came with the RTIC.

Got a fatboy cooler a few years ago for Bear camp.
Got the 75 QT. Ice last a long time,and kept my hide cool till i got to taxidermist.

https://fatboycoolers.com/

I got a Coho 55qt from Costco for $99 when they were clearing out the summer stuff at end of season. Works amazing but if I can buy ice I use a regular cooler instead because of how heavy it is.

Cam White wrote:

Rtic for me. That said, Walmart has a rotomoulded cooler that seems pretty much identical to the others at a much friendlier price point.

I have one. I paid like $60 for it on sale. Works great but is heavy and big

You guys have convinced me to go soft side. Most times it needs to hold ice one day. Like the ideas of the roto mold. But like it has been mentioned. You look at one and think it would hold a 12 pack, you open it, and it will hold 6. Also, the latches seem like they are designed to hold the space shuttle door closed. My last soft side sweat, but it was a cheapie.
For tumblers, I like Yeti for cold, and Contigo for hot. Mostly due to the lid design. Yeti will hold ice over night, but loose a heat faster with plastic lid and open hole. I have 3 or 4 Contigos. The lids seal 100%. Deer hunting, I fill a couple and throw them in my pack. Instead of a thermos I have to mess with pouring and loose half the heat. In below freezing weather I’ve had them out all day and if ones half full. It’s still hot the next morning when I refill it.
One other tumbler/coozie company to check out is Toadfish. They take their stuff to the next level. Their drink accessories have a disc on the bottom you can put on a 90-degree surface, long as it’s nonporous. It won’t fall over, but it will pull straight off. I have their filet knife/folding filet board and some of their other products. % of their profits go to Oyster restoration.

I fill my coolers with whatever and then lay a sheet of heavy aluminum foil, shiny side down facing the goodies inside, across that width of the cooler, then lay a heavy towel atop the foil. Keep the towel dry and the ice will last three times as long in a cooler.

The foil reflects the cold back into the cooler contents and the towel acts as a thermal buffer. With frozen foods in a cooler, doing the same thing but using two or three pounds dry ice things can stay frozen for well over a week.

I don’t have anything I need to keep that cold.

I’ve been tempted more times than I can count to buy a fancy expensive cooler but at the end of the day a coleman extreme works just fine. What kind of activities are you guys doing where you need these? Only reason I could see the need for one would be long excursions into the woods like a Canada fishing trip or for keeping a kill from spoiling. Hell I just got back from a trip where a 40 qt igloo I pulled out of the trash of an apartment complex 15 years ago kept my beer cold for 3 days