Making The Most of your Dry Ice

Making The Most of your Dry Ice

Dry Ice will sublimate (change from a solid to a gas) at a rate of 10 pounds every 24-hours in a standard insulated container. The more Dry Ice you have stored in the container, the longer it will last.

Plan to pick up your Dry Ice as close as possible to the time you will need it. Bring an insulated container like an ice chest, Styrofoam container. Store your Dry Ice in the same type of container to slow the sublimation rate.

Refrain from opening and closing the insulated container as much as possible.

When you remove items from the container fill the empty space with wadded news paper or a paper bag. Any "dead-air-space" will cause the Dry Ice to sublimate faster.

Do not store Dry Ice in your refrigerator freezer. The extremely cold temperature will cause your thermostat to turn off your freezer. (Also it will keep things frozen if your refrigerator breaks down in an emergency.)

Do not store Dry Ice in an air-tight container without proper ventilation, the carbon dioxide gas will cause any airtight container to explode.

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