Many of us use coolers to ice our meat or quartered game and we want to make sure they don't contain any harmful bacteria from all the game meat we store in them.
My process is the following:
1. Rinse out immediately after using
2. Wash with soap
3. add bleach to water and coat all the interior surface with it and let sit for 15min or so
4. Rinse the bleach out and wash with soap, then rinse well
5. put a little vinegar in it to store
#1 is indisputable as you don't want raw blood rotting in your cooler but I imagine a lot of people just wash with soap or bleach and are done. Am I overdoing it?
Storing it with some vinegar in the bottom seems to keep it fresh but I think that is optional. I do also rinse it out well before adding meat and ice to it. I also drain the water out when I'm letting meat sit a few days.
How do you do it?
My process is the following:
1. Rinse out immediately after using
2. Wash with soap
3. add bleach to water and coat all the interior surface with it and let sit for 15min or so
4. Rinse the bleach out and wash with soap, then rinse well
5. put a little vinegar in it to store
#1 is indisputable as you don't want raw blood rotting in your cooler but I imagine a lot of people just wash with soap or bleach and are done. Am I overdoing it?
Storing it with some vinegar in the bottom seems to keep it fresh but I think that is optional. I do also rinse it out well before adding meat and ice to it. I also drain the water out when I'm letting meat sit a few days.
How do you do it?