Cooler uses dirt instead of ice
By Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times
Ice-cold beer is essential to any summer party, but no one volunteers to pick up the ice, then to restock halfway through the party. eCool, a company in Denmark, is attempting to solve the party ice predicament with an ice-less cooler.
The eCool earth cooler is an underground cooler that uses dirt to chill your beer instead of ice. According to the website, you use a garden drill to create a hole in the ground. Or it says that if “you’re a real man” you can dig one yourself.
Once you place the cooler in the ground, you use a lever to lower up to 24 cans of beer into the cooler. You use the same lever to lift the cans out of the cooler when you’re ready to drink.
Hey OLS, you can put it right next to your tomato plants eh? Maybe plant some hops for a decorative flair.
worldcycle, No tomato plants this year so my dirt cooler would be by the snow peas. Ya see the beer would stay cooler that way (yuk yuk) .I do have what remains of a root cellar next door. One of these days I’ll dig out the dirt that was filled in there many years ago and see what’s down there. Do you still have the hoop garden or did you move? OLS
The Danes must like their beer warmer than most Americans, as do most other European beer swillers.
Ya probably would need a TRPA permit to use one of these in Tahoe.
Don’t miss any opportunity to push your political ideology and criticize based on assumptions.
That would have to be a pretty big beer cooler to need a TRPA permit, I think you would need a permit anytime you move more than 3 cubic yards. OLS you may need a permit for your root cellar, but maybe not.
OLS, I moved. Now I live on a cliff that the TRPA would never approve a permit on anymore but the panoramic view of the lake somehow more than makes up for not having a garden. Time to experiment with containers on the deck.