faux cambro towels

[AOllenburg]

Anyone ever heat the towels up in the dryer before wrapping your meat in them before you put all of it in the faux cambro?

I'm wondering if heating the towels a bit would heat the cooler a little & lengthen the time you could hold meat in the cooler.

Thank you!

[efincoop]

I have not tried that, but I like the logic behind it! I'll be interested to see if anyone has tried this hack and if they found it effective.

[holehogg]

I make use of a rubber hot water bottle that's put in the cambro before the meat goes in, stays in for the duration of the hold. The heating of the towels sounds like a plan too.

[LA Pork Butt]

Good idea!

[MsTwiggy]

I have a similar but less elegant approach. I preheat my cooler with a bucket of hot water and then pour it out right before I put my wrapped meat in.🔥🔥🔥❤️🐿

[LA Pork Butt]

I’ve not done that, but I have filled the ice chest with hot water for fifteen minutes before emptying and adding the wrapped meat and towels. I don’t have a rubber hot water bottle but liked holehogg idea.

[Steve B]

I also have not tried this. But I remember reading somewhere that it is done and works really well. If my memory, 😂😂 like I have one, serves me correctly the article said to put the warm towels in the cooler ahead of time to help warm up the cooler up.

[DogFaced PonySoldier]

Haven't done the towels - have filled the cooler about 20-30% with hot water for 20-30 minutes. Works great. Now I just leave it open in the garage for an hour and it's hot as Hades out there, so it warms the cooler up, too. lol

Sounds like a plan, if you feel like going to the trouble - honestly, the cooler itself has kept my food super warm for many hours, I question the real need - unless you're doing a LOOOONG hold.

[painter]

I have no science to back this up but I've been wrapping in towels and then stuffing the empty cooler space with spare bubble wrap. Seems to work really well.

[Bogy]

I did this once when it was cold. Worked good, but I haven't done it when I could just leave the cooler and towels out in the sun.

[rlozinak]

I just wrap in towels and put in coolet. It is not a big cooler, just bit enough for a brisket or pork butt

[RonB]

Here is another option - hot/cold packs. You can microwave them for hot, or freeze them for cold.

[Timbo54]

I've used a heating pad in a small cooler and it seems to work pretty good. I think in combination with pre warming the cooler and packing with hot towels, the heating pad would work even better.

[Donw]

It is a very good idea. Wouldn’t expect less from Olmsted County.🙂

[AOllenburg]

Thank you everyone! I appreciate all the ideas to try!

[Michael_in_TX]

I've taken to leaving my cooler out in direct sunlight for a while if my cook will be ending during the day, as I live in a relatively hot climate. Obviously, this is not effective during the winter months.

[Max Good]

Another trick Myron Mixon showed me : instead of towels use moving blankets. You can get them at any hardware store.

[Michael_in_TX]

Those things will keep in the heat!