Originally Posted by
4evrhtn
Someone told me they put salt in their cooler with ice and the melted water to get their beer colder faster. Has anyone heard of this and would it be a benefit to a quartered deer in hot weather? Just wondering....
Salt will make the ice melt faster, hence why we put it on the roads in winter. The water from the melted ice is only a couple of degrees above freezing. This will cool the beer quicker because it has more direct contact with the surface of the cans. This works in the short run but as more ice becomes water due to the chemical reaction with the salt you will lose ice faster and the cooler will not stay as cold if you were to have no salt with the ice.
I wouldn't recomend putting salt on the deer. Pack it with ice, wrap it with a tarp and keep it out of the sun and wind.