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18 June 2006

Shipping a batch of frozen cream of sweet potato soup. Good idea? Bad idea? If good, how would I do it? It's going to Alaska.

post by: chewatadistance at: 17:15 | 4 comments

Dry ice pack. Biochem lab I used to work at shipped stuff like that all the time. Probably gaspode or porpoise or some other lab bunny can supply more info.

posted by matildaben 18 June | 18:32

Dry ice might damage the texture of your c... oh, it's already frozen?

Overnight express with FedEx (although some places USPS is actually better and cheaper than FedEx) - although I don't know where you can get dry ice. The Dry Ice Directory might be the place to start. Whoever sells you the dry ice should also be able to sell you an appropriate container.

Dry ice is expensive as it is, and so is overnight delivery especially to a non-continental state.

Hopefully your soup is in a container that can withstand getting that cold and being jostled around.

An alternative would be to freeze-dry or lyophylize your soup, but that's a whole other can of worms (it will require a bunch of equipment).

posted by porpoise 18 June | 20:25

Sorry. Cream of sweet potato soup just strikes me as a bad idea in and of itself. ;)

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posted by sourwookie 18 June | 22:25

You're missin' out, wook! Think of it as pumpkin pie in liquid form. mmmmmmmmmm

posted by chewatadistance 19 June | 07:22

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