Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I live in Southeast Arkansas. If you are not familiar with the Deep South, it is one of the hottest, most humid places you can imagine during the summer. My family lives on a small farm, and we are often working outside, using a tailgate as a workbench. In those conditions, staying hydrated is difficult. A steady supply of cold water is a must. Early this summer we began with two bags of ice in a cheap cooler. This process of buying two bags of ice every morning started to get really expensive. I decided to invest in one of the new generation of coolers. This helped matters greatly. Two bags of ice would hold for two days (which is impressive when the cooler is in the back of a truck in the AR sun all day). Still expensive, it was pretty gross because at the end of the day all of your water bottles are floating in some nasty (sweat, dust, etc.) albeit cold water. My quest for a solution to this problem led me to the Cooler Shock product via an Amazon search. I was skeptical because I read reviews that talked about the "bribe" the company offers for good reviews. I decided it was worth the cost to find out if the product worked as claimed. I can tell you that this stuff works! 3 pouches of this stuff in a 50 Quart K2 cooler will keep a case of bottled water cold for up to two days. By the end of the third day, the packs are all melted and the water bottles are just cool (which is still better than 95+ degrees). I was so impressed that I ordered another three pack of Cooler Shocks today. My plan is to use 3 and keep 3 in the deep freeze, rotating them every evening. This gives me an endless supply of cold water in the field with no buying ice and no nasty water in the cooler to clean out every day.