Cooper Cooler - Premium Insulated Cooler for Camping, Beach, Picnics & Outdoor Adventures - Keeps Drinks Cold for 24+ Hours - Perfect for BBQ, Tailgating & Road Trips

This review will go over Functional vs. Practicality vs. Limitations. The combined rating is 4-stars.Functionality: Does it do what it claims to do, and does it do it well? Yes, absolutely it does. After properly loaded with ice (2 cups) and cold water (2 cups), you are able to achieve cooling of one (1) (uno, ONE) can or bottle of beverage. It is capable of in 3 minutes (standard cycle) chill a 12 oz bottle of drink to refrigerated temperature, or in 6-min cycle (Extra Cold Setting) cooling that same beverage to ice cold temperature. The device delivers this. It is rather noisy (be warned). It does not rock and shake, it is stable on the counter. It is loud. It runs on 120v AC power via the included adapter. Another model comes with a Car adapter to run off your car's battery for tailgating. As far as Function, it is 5-stars. It delivers as claimed. Good job!Practicality: It's a whole different ball of wax. First, it takes 3-6 minutes (cold to ice cold) to produce 1 bottle of drink. Have a small gathering of friends? 3 or 4 people? Maybe 5? For a set of 4 people you will need 6 cups of ice and (still 2 cups of water). It will take 24 minutes from end to end. After minute 4, the first person has already consumed his beverage while the other people waits and stares. You cannot possibly have all 4 people enjoy a 6-pack of rare microbrew together. So, no, this device is NOT designed to serve mass consumption. Only 1 bottle at a time.Two, it takes a lot of ice. 2 Cups of ice is not a problem for someone with automatic in-fridge ice maker with plenty to spare. If you are not equipped with auto ice maker, it will take 1 full try of ice or maybe 1.5 trays to chill 1 bottle of beverage. You are far better off just pour the drink into a glass with ice cubes. (I get it, you don't want to dilute the beverage). Two bottles, 4 cups of ice. Three bottles, 6 cups of ice. Four bottles, you have some ice remaining you don't need a refill. Point is, for a couple of people at home you will be consuming 4 cups of ice to make 2 x 12 oz soda cold. Practicality is low for those constrained for ice and time. But if you have plenty of those two, then, sure, no problem.Wine? Perfect. A lot of us don't have a wine cellar or cooler at home. I do, but, it holds only 24 bottles of wine. What this device allows for you is to keep your wine in a cool basement for storage, and chill it to cold temperature prior to serving (white wine, of course. For reds you want to serve cool but not cold). Either that or you have to pre-chill your wine in ice for 30 minutes. Assuming you know already which bottle is going to be served.Like many of us, you ask the guest to select the wine they want. After selected, you serve. This device will do very well here. My guest will point to the bottle of white that they want to drink (Riesling or Pinot Gris or Moscato or whatever right?). Then I can chill it with Cooper Cooler in 6 minutes with 2 cups of ice. Obviously won't be putting ice in wine glasses. EXCELLENT practicality here. For many of us without a wine cellar and our wines are in room-temperature storage, the Cooper Cooler will make it ready to serve in 6 minutes.BUT, BUT! There is a problem! Know the bottle size/shape of your wine! Cooper Cooler will ONLY accept Burgundy or Bordeaux shaped wine bottle. Basically it is a skinny (or skinner) bottle, 750 mL. It will NOT accept a Champagne bottle shape. I am not talking about chilling champagne, I am talking about regular wine being sold in a champagne shaped bottle--one with a wider bottom. Strictly speaking, 2.75" width bottle is what it will accept. The wide bottom 3.25 or 3.5" bottles will NOT work. Go to the wine store and pick up a couple of bottles and you will see. The wide bottom is VERY popular these days and they will NOT fit in the Cooper Cooler. I have to serious deduct points here. Because those wide-bottom wines are very popular these days (not like it's a specialty bottle). And many of my favorite wines are sold in Large Pinot bottles or Champagne-shaped bottles. This is major setback for this device.Lastly: Limitations. Very interestingly that the spinning action does NOT cause carbonated beverage to explode. This applies to cans or bottles. Nope, it will not explode. Trust me on that. Spinning is safe. Shaking is NOT! Despite that, only a very specific subset of bottle sizes and shape and length/girth will fit in the Cooper Cooler. Some very long necks will fit but barely (e.g. Corona long neck). Wide bottoms will not fit. Champagne (actual Champagne) will NOT fit either so don't think about last-minute chilling to serve Champagne. It consumes lots of ice in exchange of time. It will not serve large parties. The spinning and water running over bottle actions will cause the label to become wet and stripped off by the wheels that spin the bottle. It's not an issue unless you want to save the label on that wine bottle. (Ever come across a great bottle of wine and you want to remember it? Save the label? Add it to your scrap book?) Cooper Cooler WILL (yes, it will) ruin that perfect label. As the bottle spins (and it is super wet), the roller (rubber wheels in contact with the bottle) will strip off a line across the wet label where the rollers are over 6-minutes of constant rotation wet and cold. So, there's that limitation as well. The Cooler can be rather noisy when running. But it generates/serves as a great conversation piece (bragging) showing off to those who have never seen it before.So, in summary. Function (claimed purpose) is 5-stars. Practicality is 2-stars, Limitation is about a 3-star but ultimately deducted to 2-stars because the Cooler will not accept very common, current-day wide-bottom wine bottles defeating its purpose (no deduction if said wide-bottom bottles are only found on boutique rare wines). So, in the end, a 3-star is the best I can give it!Thanks for reading!We decided to go with this chiller after looking at multiple others reviews. Unfortunately, when I picked up the item, it was obvious that we received a used one. I didn’t want to go back to return it, so decided to see how the machine looked when I got it home. Though there are no scratches or scuffs, there was no protective films as suggested in the user manual(again used item). I pick at this because of the price point. There are other cheaper options. I would have kept this to one star just based off that, but we tested it out and it works as it is supposed to. Filled with ~30 ice cubes and 16oz of water. I was able to chill multiple coke cans. I was concerned the spinning would cause the can to be shaken, so I took it out of the chiller and opened over my sink. I was surprised to see there was no mess. So because this chiller works as it is supposed to, I will give it 3 stars, but still taking off 2 for sending a poorly re-packaged used item.best cooling machine ,and the price reasonableAmazing product~So I got this as a gift for my mother and she does like it that it will get the job done, and cool down a drink. Does it get the drink cold? Yes, Does it taste better like this as a unopen Bottle/Can? Yup. Is it worth the time to set it up? meh sometimes. This feels more of a good party pre-set up device then a normal have it around on 24/7. Due to getting water in it plus ice then just dropping some ice cubs into the drink instead takes so much time it not worth it unless you want the best of your drink with out putting ice in your drink or wait 20-30mins in the fridge. To be honest, my mother almost never uses it but when the few times she does, she likes it, just feels like its too much to set up vs dropping Ice and deal with a small water down drink.I've been reading the reviews on this product for a while now and I feel like they have not done this product justice. I have had this product for a while now and its become one of my favorite products. Being a teenager living with my family you can imagine that there may not always be room in the fridge for your drinks and its frustrating. My first solution was to buy a mini fridge however they can be vary costly and having to pay for electricity it will cost me more in the long run. This product was my ultimate solution it had yet to fail me after hundreds of uses and it does not take to much maintenance to keep up. I will recommend not leaving water in it for extended periods of time as it gets really dirty and nasty at the bottom. I've also learned that you can improve the original use of the product to make drinks cold during hot weather by using dry ice rather than regular ice to super cool the drink quickly. This is a great product for a gift as its great for cooling circular bottles cans and wine bottles alike. Everyone loves cold drinks from an ice chest now you can have a cold ice chest quality drinks in just minutes! I highly recommend this product especially if you dont always have room for drinks in the fridge this helps you make space so you can keep all the food in the fridge! I give this product a 10 out of 10I read the reviews that were already on here, watched a review on YouTube and just thought that it seemed a great idea.No more fridge fights between food and beer! You can keep your beer in a cupboard and chill it on demand.I unboxed mine today as soon as it arrived and found the warmest can of drink I could find in the house. Filled with ice, topped up the water and 1min later was drinking an ice cold can of Coke. Since it's arrival at 3pm today I've drank so much ice cold fluid I'm swishing about!The product does exactly what it says, yes it uses quite a bit of ice but hey, it's only ice!I highly recommend this and believe me, when you get one you will wonder how on earth you survived before it!!Got it for a party only to find out it comes with a European plug and no adapter. Why? And at the price the adapter would be nothing in extra cost to the supplier. Also doesn’t state this in the details on AmazonVery good productGreat coolerVery good