Basically I want to pick up some lush ice cream in bulk (sod off with your diet-crap!) 8)

Its a 30mile distance from the place to my house. Coolboxes wouldnt work would they? Is there a way of transporting the stuff safely to be stuffed into the freezer?

Get them to deliver?

icecream isn't going to melt that much in the time it takes to drive 30 miles.

oh and by the way

most obscure question ever on this forum me thinks

Eat the Ice Cream before you leave and transport it in your stomach.

Take me with you I have a great ice cream container you can use.

Insulate it – rugs, sleeping bag, whatever.

You must be able to get a freezer powered off the fag lighter.

Dixons Ice Cream in Huddersfield

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Think Longley Farm Yoghurts of the ice cream world. Slightly different and lush.

Drive really, really fast, if the police stop you they'll understand and might even give you an escort! 😆

IT WON'T MELT!

my parents used to travel 30 miles to the supermarket to do the weekly shopping and frozen stuff just use to get put all in the same bag under a couple of rugs

mind you if you drive like you (allegedly) ride then maybe it will melt

How much bulk? Cool boxes should be fine, especially if you pre-cool them.

Pick up a bag of ice from the supermarket for each cool box and empty it into each cool box.
Drive to your (not so) local purveyor of lush ice cream.
Pour out water (retain the ice)
Pack ice cream into the already ice cold cool box
Top up with ice

Only use freezer blocks myself but for such a precious cargo I would go the extra mile 🙂

mind you if you drive like you (allegedly) ride then maybe it will melt

It would go mouldy or curdle into cheese.

wrap the tub in tin foil (shiny)

put in a cool bag (possibly with freezer blocks)

put the cool bag in a cool box with freezer blocks

bottles of frozen water can replace freezer blocks if you have none.

thomthumb – super cool technician! 8)

Is there some sort of mad-max post apocalyptic icecream shortage where you live then? Does your weekly shop look like this?

Hora: holding out for a hero.

Eccles I need to get you to Huddersfield to try the stuff. Its like no other. Mrshora hates the stuff but loves Ice cream whereas I hate ice cream but love this stuff!

It wont melt that much, keep your air con right down or place in boot.
If you are still concerned about it, wrap in newspaper, job done.

cold box with frezer packs? keeps my frozen stuff frozen for days when camping.

Right. Will give this a shot on Thurs night 😀

Go at 3am – it's still bloody cold at night!

I was there yesterday. The locals round there interbreed more than the Todmordenites do. Even wierder looking (and mostly fat).

What happened to your diet????

Im not dieting, just cutting out 'snacks' which mainly are the 6 slices of Nutella toast, fried breakie at weekends and takeaway curries thrice a week!

Just wrap it up in loads of old newspaper – we do that when defrosting the freezer and stuff stays frozen for hours.

Dry Ice?

Most ice cream/frozen custard places in the US pack their products with dry ice for transportation.

Much more fun when you have to dispose of it after use! 😉

STL

I'd also need someone to stop me from eating it. **** that stuff is the food of Gods

Ice cream man on a Goan beach, if he can manage on a bike, in Goa, I'm sure you can manage in a car, in the UK!

You'll need one of these to move the Dixon's Raspberry sauce in.

truly the food of the gods.

turn the aircon right down!?!

how on earth you even made it this far in life I'll never know hora – lol

Loving the 'Tiger Precision Machinery Co' watermark. On a picture of a plastic barrel with a large tap mounted on a trailer.

What other 'precision machinery' do they have in their catalogue?

how on earth you even made it this far in life I'll never know hora

Only just with the help of STW? Just.

Aircon? You truly are rich sir. My car is old.

BTW, if you KNEW Dixons ice cream you'll also know its kept at a lower temp than normal supermarket crap. I.e. its already soft and ready to eat from their fridge. Dear Lordy 🙄

Waiting for the inevitable 'should I dress to the left or right' thread from Hora 🙂

I thought the ice cream was kept colder than a household freezer could keep it, hence wouldn't store well?

How to keep ice cream from melting?

There you go.

( it'll add 650 quid to the cost of the ice cream though )

I thought the ice cream was kept colder than a household freezer could keep it, hence wouldn't store well?

They store it at (prob) the same temp as the mobile vans hence eat asap.

STW is soo' full of people who need to lighten up.

If you have a problem; if no one else can help…

Liking it liking it!

Ask for a pack out of the blast freezer. If they are a half decent ice cream maker they will have a blast freezer that cools the icecream to about -20 deg C. If you wrap one of those babies up in something half decent thermally insulating, then even driving for ages it should be fine. If you get one out of a normal freezer it will probably only be -5 or -10 at the most…

Ourkidsam could provide the security for delivery?

I frequently pick up boxes of ice cream samples from Skelmersdale and bring it back to the office (Manchester) for the office types to gorge themselves on. The manufacturer supplies a polystyrene box, with dry ice in it. Return box on next visit.

And the dry ice is great for mischief around the office.