30L 240V AC & 12V DC Coolbox Hot Cold Portable Electric Cool Box
[BS-1030]
£61.99
When your fridge breaks down in a 38c heatwave, you're not left with a lot of choice except to wait for the insurance people to untangle themselves from their paperwork and come and sort it out.Meanwhile, desperate to keep my prosecco cool (and, you, know "food"), I bought this little thing.Firstly, it arrived in good time, well ahead of schedule ad safely packaged. It arrived with a UK mains lead and a car charger. It's larger than I'd imagined, though not quite tall enough for a 2l bottle of cola or, indeed, a bottle of wine, but we were able to get an entire week's worth of groceries in it.There's a wee discussion in the reviews about whether it can be locked and whatnot, and it's very simple: handle forward (away from the power lead) and it's open. If the handle is upright, it's locked. You don't need to push the handle back until it rests upon the charging cable to lock it, and I can understand why some people were finding this could knock out the power lead.Condensation can be a bit of an issue, but I think this is mostly because we accidentally covered one of the vents, meaning the water condensed on the underside of the plate we'd put there and then dripped back into the box.All in all, though pricey (I paid £60) it's definitely been worth it. The insurers took 14 days to replace the fridge - the 14 hottest July days, and there's no way we'd have coped with freezer packs and newspaper.And now the fridge is replaced? I have ME and it sits quietly at the end of my bed, keeping water and healthy snacks cool for me until I need them. It costs next to nothing to run and I turn it on for an hour in the morning and again at night as it's just veg and water in there now.An excellent buy - thank you so much, seller!
Date Added: by Lou Paget
