How long before ice cream melts in car

This topic has 44 replies, 31 voices, and was last updated 12 years ago by MrNutt.

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How long is ice cream OK in the car?
Can ice cream melt in the car?
How do you transport ice cream without it melting?
How long will it take for ice cream to melt?

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Transporting Ice cream inside a hot car safely? (tips)
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?
Posted 12 years ago
Get them to deliver?
Posted 12 years ago
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
Posted 12 years ago
Eat the Ice Cream before you leave and transport it in your stomach.
Posted 12 years ago
Take me with you I have a great ice cream container you can use.
Posted 12 years ago
Insulate it – rugs, sleeping bag, whatever.
Posted 12 years ago
You must be able to get a freezer powered off the fag lighter.
Posted 12 years ago
Drive really, really fast, if the police stop you they'll understand and might even give you an escort! 😆
Posted 12 years ago
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
Posted 12 years ago
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 🙂
Posted 12 years ago
mind you if you drive like you (allegedly) ride then maybe it will melt
It would go mouldy or curdle into cheese.
Posted 12 years ago
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)
Posted 12 years ago
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.
Posted 12 years ago
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!
Posted 12 years ago
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.
Posted 12 years ago
cold box with frezer packs? keeps my frozen stuff frozen for days when camping.
Posted 12 years ago
Right. Will give this a shot on Thurs night 😀
Posted 12 years ago
Go at 3am – it's still bloody cold at night!
Posted 12 years ago
I was there yesterday. The locals round there interbreed more than the Todmordenites do. Even wierder looking (and mostly fat).
Posted 12 years ago
What happened to your diet????
Posted 12 years ago
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!
Posted 12 years ago
Just wrap it up in loads of old newspaper – we do that when defrosting the freezer and stuff stays frozen for hours.
Posted 12 years ago
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
Posted 12 years ago
I'd also need someone to stop me from eating it. **** that stuff is the food of Gods
Posted 12 years ago
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!
Posted 12 years ago
You'll need one of these to move the Dixon's Raspberry sauce in.

truly the food of the gods.
Posted 12 years ago
turn the aircon right down!?!
Posted 12 years ago
how on earth you even made it this far in life I'll never know hora – lol
Posted 12 years ago
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?
Posted 12 years ago
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 🙄
Posted 12 years ago
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?
Posted 12 years ago
How to keep ice cream from melting?
There you go.
( it'll add 650 quid to the cost of the ice cream though )
Posted 12 years ago
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.
Posted 12 years ago
If you have a problem; if no one else can help…
Posted 12 years ago
Liking it liking it!
Posted 12 years ago
Posted 12 years ago
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…
Posted 12 years ago
Ourkidsam could provide the security for delivery?

Posted 12 years ago
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.
Posted 12 years ago

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How long is ice cream OK in the car?

According to food safety experts at H-E-B, perishable food can stay safely unrefrigerated for two hours if the air temperature is under 90 degrees and only for one hour if the temperature is 90 degrees or higher. This is true for foods transported in a car or bag or when you're having a picnic or a barbecue outside.

Can ice cream melt in the car?

Food & Drink Cans of soda, for example, can be problematic in either hot or cold cars. And, says Dunn, don't neglect items like candy bars or ice cream, which can quickly melt in the heat and make a mess. But it's not just your car's upholstery that's at risk.

How do you transport ice cream without it melting?

Put the ice cream in freezer bags inside the cooler for added insulation. Reusable thermal freezer bags are often used at grocery stores to keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. Try placing your ice cream container into one of these bags, then place the bag into your cooler and surround it with ice.