Homemade Ice Pack

Brenda Ross

 

Thought that any of us will need this, but just in case.

rmiller

My wife has made a couple of these for herself, taking extra kitchen towels (we get extra from her mom every year, so we have loads of unused ones) sown together to form a pocket the ice pack can slip into. It all works well - gets slushy and cold, but still very flexible. And because it's big and has a lot of thermal mass, it doesn't warm up nearly as quickly as the little ones.

Dino Sarti

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[Deleted User]

I've made those too! You can tweak the amount of alcohol to change how slushy you want it to be (more alcohol = lower freezing point = more liquid). I'd suggest double bagging it though, as the alcohol tends to leak out from the seams over time.

Brenda Ross

or Anson, we put an order in to Ryan's wife for some pouches.

Gordon Cherwoniak

Brenda

I'll have to try this.  I just use ice in a bag, empty and reuse the bags. I will definitely have to figure out the leaking as I typically just wrap a towel around the double bag.  I've gone to double bagging as I was losing SAU's for moving around the house dripping here and there on occasion but this still doesn't elimiate the problem.  Why becuase I reuse the bags until they start leaking. 

Gordon

Joe Matchette

Would one of those "Vacuum Sealers" for food work to eliminate the leaking problem? Or would that just lead to a bigger mess within the sealing unit itself?