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Dray Ice in baja?

juandesiles - 7-19-2015 at 08:23 AM

Ok
is there a place to buy dray ice on my way up north from la ventana, up to punta san carlos?

thanx

MMc - 7-19-2015 at 09:14 AM

Nope. No dry ice in Baja.
Edit: no dry ice in southern Baja.


[Edited on 7-19-2015 by MMc]

Udo - 7-19-2015 at 10:17 AM

The nearest dry ice store (tag I know of) is Ensenada. Its on the right side just as you start to come up the steep hill into South Ensenada...it is just after all the farms.
There used to be a place in San Quintin, and one in Santa Rosalia (those ice cream vendors have to get their blocks somewhere, right? Ask one of them.

bajaguy - 7-19-2015 at 10:57 AM

I agree with Udo's comments. Ask an ice cream vendor

There are 3 or 4 places in Ensenada. I usually get mine from the place that supplies a lot of the street ice cream vendors, believe it is on Ave Coral

In the California I have found that Smart & Final and Ralph's markets (in the San Diego area) carry dry ice
Quote: Originally posted by Udo  
The nearest dry ice store (tag I know of) is Ensenada. Its on the right side just as you start to come up the steep hill into South Ensenada...it is just after all the farms.
There used to be a place in San Quintin, and one in Santa Rosalia (those ice cream vendors have to get their blocks somewhere, right? Ask one of them.

Pescador - 7-20-2015 at 07:52 AM

I have never found it south of Ensenada and that includes La Paz and Cabo.

Speaking of dry ice (CO2) I have a funny story

durrelllrobert - 7-20-2015 at 12:07 PM

When I worked for DoD I designed and built some special loading tooling for a Plastic Bonded Explosive (PBX) and in order to test it I need an Inert variant of the PBX. The only place that had such a thing was the DoE PANTEX plant in Amarillo, TX.

So I made arrangements to get a kilo from them and flew from DC to pick it up. PANTEX carefully packed it, packed it in dry ice (since it would harden in about an hour at room temperature and become useles) and placed that in an insulated dewar.

When i checked in for my return flight the ticket agent went beserk when the say the dewar labled "INERT EXPLOSIVE" and after I explained what INERT meant and showed my Dod ID badge they said I would have to talk to the Captain before I could take it on board. After about a half-hour he came out, opened the dewar to examen the contents and then told me that because it contained dry ice which produced "TOXIC FUMES" I couldn't have it in the passenger cabin and it was too late to place it in the cargo hold.

So it ended up that he said he would place it in the c-ckpit with him and I could retrive it once we landed. Didn't make sense that it was OK for him to be subjected to toxic fumes but not the passengers?

After I got off the plane I did some research and found out:

"Do not store Dry Ice in a completely airtight container. The sublimation of Dry Ice to Carbon Dioxide gas will cause any airtight container to expand or possibly explode. Keep proper air ventilation wherever Dry Ice is stored.

Do not store Dry Ice in unventilated rooms, cellars, autos or boat holds. The sublimated Carbon Dioxide gas will sink to low areas and replace oxygenated air. This could cause suffocation if breathed exclusively.

Do not store Dry Ice in a refrigerator freezer. The extremely cold temperature will cause your thermostat to turn off the freezer. It will keep everything frozen in the freezer but it will be used up at a faster rate. It is the perfect thing if your refrigerator breaks down in an emergency. There are also Commercial Storage Containers available."