For the hunter, fisherman, or the guy who travels off the beaten path to remote spots, the Bilt Tuff Portable Refrigerator Freezer is for you. I’m talking about places that don’t have ice, that don’t have a steady supply of electricity, propane, or rigs with giant battery banks. Coupled with a compact folding solar panel this unit will operate indefinitely. For the emergency situation, a car battery will keep it going over night (the unit has selectable low-voltage shutoffs too) without killing the battery. For the “prepper” out there, this Bilt Tuff Portable Refrigerator Freezer unit will survive the elements (within reason folks) and won’t fall apart like those flimsy coolers.

The Bilt Tuff Portable Refrigerator Freezer is small enough to ride on the back of a Polaris Quad into the outback, and along with the solar panel, it will provide those cold beverages during the hunt. Catch the big one? The Bilt Tuff Portable Refrigerator Freezer will take down the temperature as fast as any non-commercial refrigerator and this is where it really shines against those hyped-up coolers that cost just as much. A moderately sized game animal, dressed out, takes up a lot of space. Warm-blooded animals are just that: warm.

Put that warm, dressed out game in the cooler and “something’s gotta give”. The direct contact with ice will conduct the heat away the fastest, but that melts the ice. Melting ice can contaminate your catch, making a mess, and it’s very heavy. Pour off that ice melt and you lose its cooling capacity in the form of cold water. Do you honestly think you can put a 50 lb warm-blooded animal into a cooler and have the ice last for a week?

What if you’re out for several days on the hunt, but so far, no luck. You brought along that super-heavy mondo cooler full of ice. It’s a mild 80-85 degrees during the day. On your last day of the trip, day 5, you score. Back at camp, you take a look inside that cooler. Still got confidence that you’ll be able to dress out that trophy and get it home without spoilage? Maybe you got a bigger one? How-now-brown-cow?

With the Bilt Tuff Portable Refrigerator Freezer, you might have thought ahead and placed a 5 gallon bucket or equivalent heavy duty, leak-proof sack of water into the unit along with your supplies. That five gallons is a lot of super cold thermal mass and will greatly assist in cooling your catch, as well as make a convenient wash basin if you so desire. Take a heavy duty 30 gallon trash sack and put your game inside it. Pour in that super-cooled 5 gallons of water, or double-sack it to keep the water in contact with the game, but not touching the game, and you’ve just taken a huge amount of thermal load off of the cooling process. Then you can load sack after sack of pre-chilled morsels into the fridge where the compressor takes over. You simply have to see this in your mind. No cooler can do this.

Need to convince your significant other (don’t worry, they’ll love it too)

• Remind them that you can set it at 59 degrees to take your red wine to the next event without soggy labels.
• Remind them that you can stuff the holiday turkey into it for the trip to Grandma’s house.
• Remind them that you can have a spare fridge for the next social event.
• And don’t forget, you can make or keep ice in this fridge, because it will drop to below zero. No wet ice for the next BBQ.

Yes, you do get what you pay for, and in this case, this Bilt Tuff Portable Refrigerator Freezer is a multi-tasker that is a pleasure to own and reliable in use. It’s a durable, quality product that will work in harsh environments for years, but don’t take my work for it, just ask NASA. Yes, this company was selected by NASA to provide refrigeration units for space back in 1982. Having proven themselves since 1967, this unit is a state-of-the-art unit at a very affordable price.

HAPPY TRAILS!