DIY Cooler Hack - Adding Cooler Trays Cheap And Easy

This video is a DIY cooler hack for adding cooler trays cheap and easy! Cooler trays are a really good hack for your cooler that allows you to maximize the storage potential of your cooler. You can not only carry your ice, food, and drinks but this cooler hack adds a cooler tray where you can keep seasonings, cooking items, dry ingredients, and more! Who doesn't love a cheap and easy cooler hack? Get your DIY on and add a cooler tray!
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[PenguinOutdoors]

What kind of cooler are you looking to hack or upgrade?

[esterdrass]

This is pretty cool. I imagine a small Rubbermaid garbage bin could fit into a larger cooler. I was very frustrated with the cooler last year because everything was a clusterfuck under the ice. I forgot I had hotdogs in the cooler because they made their way to the bottom and weren't seen until the cooler was empty. I need organization. I was in the hardware store today and took a Yeti cooler down from the shelf to see what it looked like inside. It was smaller than the cooler you are showing us, and inside it had a divider and baskets. Two baskets on top of each other on the side of the cooler. There was some divider that looked designed to keep the ice from creeping over. It was very cool inside (no pun) but it was also almost $300. I kept thinking, there has to be an alternate way to do this. So, I will try this hack.

[bryanjackson]

This totally works! I have been doing it for years. I line the bottom of my Igloo 50 qt BMX with freezer packs, load my frozen items in the bottom of the tray ( tray is the liner from a soft side coler), cold food on top of that, drinks on the bottom of the cooler and fill it with ice. I can get up to 4 days like that. On a recent trip on day 3 (daytime temps in the high 80's)the ice was still so hard on the drink side, I was poking holes in cans trying to get them out.

[ronyerke]

If you're time conscious, just buy some waste baskets from an office supply store or department store. I bet some of the smaller sizes will fit in there.

[thelifeofl]

Hey penguin I put a d freezer gasket in the lid of my bmx and for ice retention it works great. Might try it out.

[y-t]

that's was cool. good idea. so just Have to measure about what ever size cooler a person has to get the plastic bin to fit inside nice

[Joe_Blo]

That tray that comes with some coolers to store dry goods? Fill it with water, freeze & use as an ice block.

[ttwatt]

What if you were to put the storage bin on the left hand side, then you would not have to worry about water flowing out the bottom.

[edc]

The best cooler hack I've used is called the coolertray, they have a video on you tube. Wasn't sure it would work but now I use them in all my coolers. Ice in my 75L cooler lasts at least a week in the so cal desert (90+deg as long as it's in the shade). If you don't want to spent the $25, then just make them yourself. Measure the bottom inside of your cooler, buy a food grade cutting board and cut it on a table saw about 1/8 smaller than your measurement, round the corners with a file, hot glue some PVC fittings on the bottom to lift it about 1 inch and drill some holes in it to drain the water through (make sure at least one of the holes is big enough for your finger so it easy to remove). Then use the drain plug to drain out the extra water every couple on days. I've done this with my last six coolers, It works great!

[carolynallen]

I have 2 igloo coolers. One is a 4 day cube cooler, and I believe that the other is an igloo extreme. Is it worthwhile to insulate them

[CaboWabotv]

I use spring loaded shelves that they sell for school lockers during back to school sales

[bobabooey]

I appreciate people who get a lot of satisfaction from mods but often times they search for any sort of improvement and it becomes overkill. I mean these are coolers, this one in particular is a good one. Just add ice, food and drink, and youre good to go. I do like a divider type system but Id never use it to carry cook burners or lighters or anything thats not edible and drinkable.

[TravelMadeSimple]

Why 15k view but no SUBS ? Guys, let's help this guy out !

[josevazquez]

Or you can put dry ice inside that side bucket inside the cooler.

[doreen]

Just watching odd videos on YouTube and I came across yours and I'm thinking I guess that's a great idea but why don't you just use you old soft cooler for dry ingredients, plates forks knives cooking utensils... just asking 😊
That way you can put more stuff in the other cooler use that idea of yours for like large milk containers or something to keep them upright

[johngilbert]

Don't put your stove in the cooler! Always keep stuff that burns fuel like stoves away from food. Just cause, in the least in can impart bad flavors!

[roberthamlin]

Eight minutes to watch a guy put a trash can in a cooler for dry storage