When shopping for a 12v refrigerator, it’s easy to look at the specifications, brand names, and flashy features to help decide which one suits your needs, regardless of which model you choose, there are a handful of ways to help you get even more efficiency from your fridge, so check this out and take some tricks with you on the tracks to pack your 12v camping fridge more efficiently!

1.Keep the door closed!

When you head to your Adventure Kings refrigerator at camp, the less time the lid is open, the better. The longer the lid is open, means that your camping fridge will have to work harder to recover the cool air that escaped. This is the same reason your mum used to yell at you for hanging around the fridge door. For this reason it pays off to put your refrigerator in an easy to access location or mount it to a fridge slide so you can, get in and out easily and access all the contents when you need them

When you are packing your fridge, it’s a good idea to put items you need to keep cold for a couple of days, towards the bottom of your fridge, things like tomorrow nights dinner, and your bacon and eggs. Where things like beers and soft drinks can afford to be more towards the top, this also means you spend less time lingering with the door open!

2.Divide and conquer

The Adventure Kings 60L fridge freezer, and many other 12v fridges available on the market offer internal mesh dividers, which allow you to separate all of your fresh food and drinks in an organized manner, along with the integrated dairy compartment.

The 2x internal dividers included with the Adventure Kings 60L fridge/freezer, allows you to pack your food and drinks and allows cold air to circulate, keeping all of the fridge contents icy cold, and easy to access!

3.Cover your assets!  

Just about any 12v fridge system, has small inefficiencies in the insulation, where the door gaskets and inside insulation, allow small amounts of cold air to “leak” by adding a foil lined cover, that adds an additional Pearl Wool (EPE Foam) layer which increases the insulation efficiency, whilst still allowing airflow through the internal components.

By using a fridge cover over the top of your Adventure Kings 60L Fridge Freezer you can decrease the amount of battery you use to keep your food and drinks cold and speed up the time it takes for everything to chill down!

4.Keep shady

when you are setting up camp it is important to consider where the sun will be shining, as a refrigerator in direct sunlight will suffer and use more energy than is necessary. For this reason, it Is important to park your vehicle with shade in mind. You can use anything from one of those cheap foil window shields all the way to fitting an Adventure Kings Awning to your vehicle to cast a shadow over the interior of your vehicle.

Not only will your refrigerator thank you, but so will your camp buddies, with waterproof and UPF50+ Shelter over your campsite you will find that everyone will want to kick back and relax at your campsite.

5.Preparation is the key

By packing your refrigerator with prechilled food and drinks, your refrigerator won’t have to work as hard to chill the rest of the contents. One pro-tip is to pre-freeze water bottles to chill the fridge to operating temperature before it is even plugged in, and once they melt you’ll have icy cold water to drink.

By preparing your meals ahead of time you can also freeze them and your meats to help chill down the temperature in your fridge.

6.Top up the empty space

What you put in your fridge can greatly influence the efficiency and energy consumption across a range of conditions, and surprisingly enough by adding more contents to your fridge to remove any unoccupied space, you can do this by constantly topping up your fridge with warm drinks, and a water bottle or two.

By filling the space inside your fridge, you prevent the refrigerator from losing cold air every time the door is opened. This trick works excellently, and will always supply you with a fresh supply of icy cold beers, ready to go!