Hard Packs - Grey

They are great in the beginning, they stayed cold for 2 days in the cooler and even froze the food next to them. However after a few uses they don’t stay as cold as they used to.

Let me start this review by stating a fact. YOU WILL NOT FIND A BETTER ICE PACK! We live in South Carolina and it gets pretty dang hot down in here in the summer. Heck, it gets pretty dang hot down here in the spring. I got tired of constantly buying ice every day when we go to the beach, lake, boating, camping…and we go a lot. I was determined to find the best ice alternative at a good price point and after reviewing a few products I decided to go with Cooler Shock. And I tell you right now, I am SO GLAD I DID! I bought the “original” foil Cooler Shock large 3 pack ice packs about 1.5 years ago. I loved them so much I bought another set, and then another…well, you get the point. I bought a lot. We have some for our soft side cooler for beer/water or whatever we’re drinking for the day. We have some for our large fishing cooler to keep our fish cold until we get back and can get home and get them cleaned. Well anyway, those were nothing short of amazing and were worth every penny I spent on them, but more importantly what I saved by not having to buy ice! Well, enough about those. I need to get to talking about what you came here to read about, the NEW and IMPROVED hard plastic Cooler Shock ice packs. I received the new hard packs on 10 July 19, filled them according to the instructions and placed them in the freezer. These new hard plastic ice packs feel and look like they are built to last. Unless you lose them or run over them with a tank, you will most likely have these packs forever. As with the foil packs, we plan to use these packs on the boat, at the beach, at the lake, camping, grocery store runs…the uses are limitless. I’ll give you a quick story about when we used our two hard packs in a Hopper 40 soft side cooler this past weekend. We took our boat out Saturday afternoon, 13 July, around noon and it was probably around 90 degrees outside. We had the cooler loaded with plenty of beer, water and Gatorade. I made what I call a drink sandwich. I put one ice pack on the bottom, add the drinks, then another ice pack on the top, and put drinks on the top pack. We fished well into the evening and got off the water at 1130 that night. We parked the boat at my cousin’s beach house and went back to our camper. The cooler stayed in the boat overnight. We unloaded the boat Sunday morning around 11:00 and put everything in the back of the truck. We headed for home, which is about 120 miles away, but stopped about halfway home for lunch and my wife did a little shopping. That put us at getting home 4:00-4:30 Sunday afternoon. I should have been surprised, but knowing how great Cooler Shock products are, I wasn’t. The few remaining bottles of water, Gatorade and one beer was still ice cold. The hard pack on the bottom was still half frozen but the one on top wasn’t frozen, but was still cold. I just can’t tell you enough or express how GREAT this product is. I have two hard packs for now, but that is about to change. I will be ordering another set or more in the VERY near future. So, after you read this, do yourself a HUGE favor and order yourself a set of three or more. YOU WILL NOT be disappointed. You will soon find out that ice is only needed for a glass of sweet tea and not a cooler. Cooler Shock is all you will ever need to keep everything nice and cold!! Feel free to ask any questions you may have about these AWESOME and AMAZING Cooler Shock hard packs. #NoMoreIce

These Cooler Shock ice packs exceeded my expectations! They worked fantastic and kept our drinks ice cold the entire time. We only needed one bag of ice in our cooler, and it lasted an incredible 3 days with these ice packs. They really helped keep everything colder for much longer than ice alone. I highly recommend them if you want your cooler to stay cold for extended trips!

These were a lot bigger than I anticipated but work well. I will say I followed the instructions and the gel got stuck in the corner and I had to pick it out with a long screwdriver. For the second one I did my own thing and it worked great. The instructions also said using one cup of water but was not enough so I added a little at a time to get to that overflow state in the instructions. But after that hiccup nd freezing them for 48 hours it worked very well and kept my color cold for the whole day. It easy to to wipe clean and it's flat enough to store easily.

These are great ice packs. Stay frozen/cold for 2 days in this hoT, humid, NC weather. They will freeze your drinks and water. Highly recommend.

These (gray hard packs) have worked great in my Yeti 65qt cooler, 2 or 3 of these and some smaller ice packs and/or regular cubed ice keeps food and drinks cold for days on road trips or camping. Even if I leave the cooler in a hot car or outside. It can be a little difficult to remove 100% of the air pocket when filling, which is a little frustrating, that’s the only drawback so far. Tilting side to side, at a slight angle away from you while filling very slowly and squeezing gently helps (if that makes any sense. Why the fill port is lower than the shoulders is obviously a design choice for size, but makes filling without a small air pocket almost impossible. Even so, I honestly recommend this product. A small air pocket won’t hurt it’s function or cause excess swelling when frozen. The key (with any cooler) is to pre-chill the cooler for a day with a few sacrificial ice packs, then replace with these and you will get great results that last several days. I’ve wound up with drinks and food starting to freeze up after a few hours depending on how close you put those items to these ice packs. *As a side note, if you are considering any size of the soft pack version of these, I personally haven’t had a good experience with them. I’ve had them all split open (they weren’t overfilled either), they just don’t last, every one I had split by the spout/cap area and leak after a period of time. I’ve left a much less stellar review for those (all sizes), it’s a defective product in my opinion. These large hard packs are great though! Wish they made them in various sizes…not sure why they don’t yet, seems like a big-time missed opportunity. * update 2021* The newest hard ice packs are clear compared to the gray plastic packs I ordered last year. Clear plastic is generally not as strong as solid colored plastic. I’ll update this review after some use, as to their durability compared to the older gray plastic model. The empty gray colored units feel more substantial. I’m thinking this was a cost cutting measure, again durability remains to be seen and I will update accordingly if anything negative happens with them.

Keeps the cooler very cold

Awesome product until the plastic cracks and oozes out all over the ice and drinks in your cooler

Best cooler pack ive ever used. Exceeded all expectations.

Wanted to get something cheaper but effective for my yeti. These for perfectly along the back wall, along with a couple of their smallest flexible ones they’re brilliant. Did some very unscientific experiments with my yeti, iceytek and different ice packs and these stayed cold much longer than my other packs. Work the order as nothing else similar in the UK

Works great in my Coleman full-size cooler

These cooler packs can be a bit fiddly to fill up with water; I used my own funnel. But they work well. As these freeze at 18F (-7C) I would not use them for keeping food cool, it is likely to freeze them. But they are great at keeping food frozen, when defrosting a freezer. I have used then to keep food below -10C for over 12 hours.

Belle qualité, mais trop grand pour mes besoins. j'ai du le retourner