Best Way to Transport Ice Cream

    Ice cream sales is a large business, so if you want to crack the market, you understand exactly what commercial ice cream refrigeration consists of and how to go about choosing cold chain equipment best suited to your requirements.

    Electric cool boxes can be plugged into your car for travelling, while cooler bags and backpacks are a great choice for slinging onto your shoulder for adventures. In addition, cooler boxes are an incredibly practical investment for a number of reasons, but mainly because they're a simple solution for safely storing food at a colder temperature – excellent for a picnic or barbecue.

    There are plenty of options on the market, and thinking about how you'll use your purchase will help you make the right choice for you. Prices can range from the very cheap to the hugely expensive, so frequency of use and the need for portability are key factors to consider. To help you choose, we carefully longlisted and tested a selection from a range of brands to hit all budgets.

    To help you make the decision, we've tested our following cool boxes by half-filling them with different ice bricks. We also took each box on a local excursion to assess portability and durability, to provide a tried-and-tested list of the best cold chain box from our cooler boxes series.

Inter City Transport - From Factory to CFA

Ice cream is transported over long distances in refrigerated trucks. The cold chain gives you a consistent and reliable way to transport perishable items like ice cream from place to place. The cold transportation process can take days, so the cold chain and cold storage is essential.

Retail Distribution - From CFA to Retailer

Home Delivery or For a picnic or barbecue

A passive cool box – i.e. one that uses ice or freeze blocks rather than an electric input – provides a sturdy step up from a cool bag. Relying on insulation and build quality to keep the cold in and warmth out, they’re often relatively simple in form, but a full spectrum of high-tech materials and additional functionality mean there are options to suit all budgets. With passive cool boxes there certainly is a degree of you get what you pay for. They come in a range of materials – some are merely ice gel packs while, at the premium end of the market, there are products that can keep ice frozen for days, such is the quality of their insulation and adding more ice bricks.