{"title":"Cool bags","description":"\u003ch2 id=\"speakable-headline\"\u003eCool bags\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"speakable-definition\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCool bags\u003c\/strong\u003e: Cool bags keep the heat out when you need to travel light. You pick the soft build by packed size, access and how comfortably it carries; it is no replacement for active cooling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow cold it actually stays also comes down to pre-chilling, ice packs and how often the lid comes off.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-8-soft-cooler","title":"Hopper Flip® 8 \"Soft Cooler\" Cool Bag (Small)","description":"\u003ch2 id=\"speakable-headline\"\u003eCold drinks without taking over half the boot\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote id=\"speakable-summary\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat is the YETI Hopper Flip 8? The smallest cool bag in the Hopper range, sized for one person and one day. Six cans plus ice, sealed tight, carried over your shoulder. Not for the group round the folding table, not for dry ice, not for submerging.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp id=\"speakable-definition\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe YETI Hopper Flip 8\u003c\/strong\u003e is YETI's small cool bag for anyone who sets off alone in the morning and still wants to pull something cold out of the car in the afternoon. A cube of roughly 29 by 20 by 27 centimetres, just over 1.3 kilos empty, with a detachable neoprene strap. It sits in the passenger footwell, not across half the boot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix in the morning, the car park is still empty, and you set the cube down next to the folding table by the open tailgate. At two, when the sun is beating straight down on the tarmac and the guy parked next to you pulls a lukewarm bottle out of his rucksack, your hand goes into ice. That's all this bag sets out to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 1: HERO-BILD hier einfügen (nach erstem Text, VOR Key-Benefits)\n     Bildtyp: HERO+CAR — Hopper Flip 8 in Charcoal auf der Ladekante einer offenen Heckklappe, frühes Morgenlicht, Klapptisch angeschnitten\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-8-soft-cooler_hero.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 8 Kuehltasche auf der Ladekante einer offenen Heckklappe\" --\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSix cans, and the footwell stays usable.\u003c\/strong\u003e Roughly 29 by 20 by 27 centimetres, about the footprint of a shoebox. Six 330 ml cans fit inside with ice, eleven without. The cube stands in front of the passenger seat and doesn't topple over there, not even on a roundabout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe meltwater stays inside.\u003c\/strong\u003e The wraparound HydroLok zip is leakproof once it's fully closed. Up to 4.5 kilos of ice can turn to water over the day and the boot lip stays dry. No dark patch on the boot carpet when you unload in the evening.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA strap that comes off in five seconds.\u003c\/strong\u003e Empty it weighs just over 1.3 kilos; fully packed you're at about six. The padded neoprene strap goes on for the thirty metres across the gravel and comes off again afterwards. Up front sits the HitchPoint grid for a bottle opener, a carabiner or a SideKick case.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote class=\"praxistipp\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDay-to-day from Detailing1:\u003c\/strong\u003e The smallest bag in the range has a problem the big ones don't. It gets opened constantly. Six cans means every other question at the table ends with a hand in the bag, and by the fifth time the ice at the front has turned to water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe fix costs nothing. Take the first can out first thing in the morning and park it outside the bag, in the cup holder or on the folding table. That gives you two hours with a drink in hand without touching the zip. Open the Flip 8 three times between eleven and three instead of ten, and there'll still be ice in it come evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSix cans, plenty of ice, and then it stays shut\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hopper Flip 8 takes six 330 ml cans plus ice. How long they stay cold is decided the evening before, not on the morning of the meet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYETI doesn't quote a figure in hours for the Hopper range and is upfront about why. Too many factors come into play, the manufacturer says in so many words, so any specific number would be misleading. What you get instead is a formula: twice as much ice as contents, by volume. Everything goes in pre-chilled, nothing at room temperature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt this size that isn't a fine point, it's the whole difference. A six-can bag doesn't leave much in reserve. Gaps get filled, with a folded towel or an extra bottle of water if need be. The meltwater stays in rather than being tipped out halfway through, because cold water beats warm air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the morning you grab it by the handle, put it in the passenger footwell and leave it there. At the meet it goes in the shade of the open tailgate, not next to the front tyre on black tarmac. According to the manufacturer, ice lasts up to twice as long in the shade as in full sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe strap goes on the Flip 8 more often than on its bigger siblings, because you actually carry this one instead of just setting it down. Fully packed it's about six kilos, and on the walk from the far end of the car park to the table that sits more comfortably on your shoulder than hanging from the handle. Take the strap off at the table, or it just gets in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll of this is backed by real-world reports, not manufacturer promises. One long-term tester reports ice lasting over 48 hours in the Flip 8 on a weekend trip. Treeline Review had the bigger Flip out at over 32 degrees in direct sun and still found about half the cubes intact after twenty hours. The coffee for the drive over goes in the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/yeti-isolierbecher-rambler-tumbler-magslider-deckel\"\u003einsulated tumbler\u003c\/a\u003e alongside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 2: ANWENDUNGS-BILD hier einfügen (passend zu H3 #1)\n     Bildtyp: Anwendung — beide Hände ziehen den HydroLok Reißverschluss auf, Blick in die gepackte Tasche mit Eis und Dosen, Klapptisch im Freien\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-8-soft-cooler_anwendung.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 8 wird am HydroLok Reissverschluss geoeffnet\" --\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Hopper Flip 8 is a portion for one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix cans plus ice is one day for one person. If there are two of you or you're bringing food, the Flip 8 simply won't cover what you need.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree numbers do the rounds for this bag, and all three are right. Six cans with enough ice, eleven cans with no ice at all, or 4.5 kilos of pure ice with nothing else in it. If you've got the eleven in your head and then add ice, you'll come up short. Several testers write the same line: smaller than expected. The insulation is thick, so 29 centimetres on the outside is a good deal less on the inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat's why size is the real buying decision. If you head out early on your own and are back home by evening, take the Flip 8. If there are two of you or sandwiches and fruit are coming along, take the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-12-soft-cooler\"\u003enext size up\u003c\/a\u003e with room for twelve cans. If you need a second seat in the paddock, a hard box like the Roadie 8 is the more honest buy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBelow it sits the Daytrip line. The Lunch Bag and Lunch Box are lunch for one day and run on an ice pack rather than loose ice. The Flip 8 is the smallest size you can tip kilos of ice into without mopping anything up in the evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the limits, spelled out honestly so nobody gets caught out later. There are no outside pockets, so anything that has to stay dry goes elsewhere. Loaded high and set down on a slope, it tips. The zip runs tight; you need both hands and a firm pull. It's leakproof when fully closed, but it isn't a container you can submerge. YETI explicitly rules out dry ice, and the washing machine, tumble dryer and bleach too. The warranty is three years, not the five you get on Rambler drinkware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 3: DETAIL\/ERGEBNIS-BILD hier einfügen (passend zu H3 #2)\n     Bildtyp: Ergebnis — geöffnete Flip 8 von oben am späten Nachmittag, Eis und beschlagene Dosen sichtbar, daneben das HitchPoint Gitter mit angeclipptem Flaschenöffner\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-8-soft-cooler_ergebnis.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 8 von oben geoeffnet mit Eis und kalten Dosen\" --\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFor solo drivers, not the group round the folding table\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe YETI Hopper Flip 8 earns its keep if you set off early and alone more than three times a year and have no room for a second box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cool bag lives a hard life in a car. It sits on hot tarmac, rides along next to sharp edges, gets wet, dusty, knocked about and crammed into corners. That's exactly where cheap bags give up. The seams pull apart, the liner tears along the fold, the closure goes slack, and after two summers there's a smell in there that no cleaner will shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Flip 8's outer shell, by contrast, is a high-density welded fabric that you wipe down rather than wash. Treeline Review dragged a Hopper Flip around campsites, canoes and weekly shops for three years and reports no structural damage. It picks up scuffs, but nothing comes apart. Here in Nordhorn, one has been riding along in different cars since the spring and still looks like day one inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's not for you if you're catering for a family at the lake, and not if you need a verified number of hours on the label, because YETI deliberately doesn't give one for the Hopper range. We stock it in two colourways, Classic Navy and Charcoal, in one size. Whatever else we carry from the brand is in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/yeti\"\u003eYETI category\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat's the link to everything else we sell. If you look after your car, you think in terms of surfaces that still look like day one years later, and you don't replace your kit every other summer. Same mindset, just on the boot floor instead of the paintwork. And on a practical level: what stays inside doesn't end up outside. No meltwater ring on the boot lip, no damp patch on the leather seat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe one line no manufacturer prints on the box applies to the smallest size most of all. This bag doesn't die from the fabric, it dies from the zip, and it dies faster than the big ones because it gets opened more often. Sand in the teeth is the most common cause of failure, and every opening grinds it in deeper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGive it a quick rinse with clean water after every outing, treat the zip to a thin film of lubricant a few times a year, and you'll still have it in ten years. Leave it gritty and force the zip, and after two seasons you've got a very expensive bag that won't close properly. Two minutes after every meet decide the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 4: LINEUP-BILD hier einfügen (nach H3 #3)\n     Bildtyp: Lineup — Hopper Flip 8 in Classic Navy und Charcoal nebeneinander, gleiche Perspektive, neutraler Hintergrund\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-8-soft-cooler_lineup.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 8 Kuehltasche in Classic Navy und Charcoal im Lineup\" --\u003e","brand":"YETI","offers":[{"title":"Classic Navy (Blau)","offer_id":58253340541263,"sku":"D1-YET-70000006577","price":230.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Charcoal (Anthrazit)","offer_id":58253340574031,"sku":"D1-YET-70000002198","price":230.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/3272\/7375\/files\/hopper-flip-8-soft-cooler-kuehltasche-klein__70000006577.png?v=1788190697"},{"product_id":"yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-12-soft-cooler","title":"Hopper Flip® 12 \"Soft Cooler\" Cool Bag","description":"\u003ch2 id=\"speakable-headline\"\u003eLate in the afternoon, there's still ice rattling around inside\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote id=\"speakable-summary\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat is the YETI Hopper Flip 12? YETI's compact cool bag for a long day out by the car: twelve cans plus ice, and the meltwater stays inside. Not made for dry ice, not for submerging, and not as a spare seat in the paddock.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp id=\"speakable-definition\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe YETI Hopper Flip 12\u003c\/strong\u003e is YETI's compact cool bag for people who load up ice and drinks in the morning and still want to pull out something cold late in the afternoon. Twelve litres, one and a half kilos empty, a cube that fits behind the passenger seat. It belongs next to the folding table by the open tailgate, not at base camp by the river.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHalf five, still dark, and you set the cube on the boot lip while the engine warms up. A couple of moves later it's sitting behind the passenger seat. And in the afternoon, when the last cars are shuffling out and everyone else is fishing lukewarm bottles out of a soggy cardboard box, you pull the zip open and reach into ice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 1: HERO-BILD hier einfügen (nach erstem Text, VOR Key-Benefits)\n     Bildtyp: HERO+CAR — Hopper Flip 12 auf der Ladekante der offenen Heckklappe, frühes Morgenlicht, Klapptisch angeschnitten\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-12-soft-cooler_hero.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 12 Kuehltasche auf der Ladekante der offenen Heckklappe\" --\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe meltwater stays inside.\u003c\/strong\u003e The wraparound HydroLok zip is leakproof once it's fully closed. Around seven kilos of ice can turn to water over the day and the boot floor stays dry. No trickle into the spare-wheel well, no dark patch on the carpet when you unload in the evening.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwelve cans, and your footwell stays clear.\u003c\/strong\u003e Roughly 32 by 29 by 25 centimetres, holding twelve 330 ml cans plus ice. Without ice, 24 fit inside. The cube stays put behind the passenger seat instead of wandering across half the boot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOne lid handle, two side handles, one strap.\u003c\/strong\u003e The lid handle for the ten metres from the car to the table, the side handles for lifting it fully loaded, plus a padded neoprene strap you take off when it's in the way. Up front there are six loops of the HitchPoint grid for a bottle opener, a carabiner or a SideKick case.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote class=\"praxistipp\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDay-to-day from Detailing1:\u003c\/strong\u003e The mistake doesn't happen on Sunday morning, it happens on Sunday evening. You get back, unpack, zip the bag shut and stick it in the boot. Three weeks later it smells, and the only way to shift that is two days of bicarbonate of soda and a second wash.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eDoing it right takes two minutes. Wipe it out, rinse with clean water, dry the inside and then leave the zip open. YETI explicitly says several days open, not just overnight. And before it goes back in the corner, give the zip a thin film of lubricant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTwice as much ice as contents, and then it stays shut\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cool bag doesn't chill anything down; it only holds on to what you put in. How it looks in the afternoon is decided the evening before, in your kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYETI doesn't quote a figure in hours for the Hopper range, and we're not about to make one up. What the manufacturer gives you instead is a formula: twice as much ice as contents, by volume. Everything goes in pre-chilled, nothing at room temperature. Gaps get filled, with an extra bottle of water if need be. And the meltwater stays in rather than being tipped out halfway through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the morning you grab it by the lid handle, put it behind the passenger seat and leave it there. At the meet it goes in the shade of the open tailgate, not next to the front tyre on black tarmac. According to the manufacturer, ice lasts up to twice as long in the shade as in full sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the walk from the far end of the car park to the table, the neoprene strap goes on; otherwise it stays in the box. With twelve cans and ice the cube weighs a good eight kilos, and over thirty metres of gravel you'd rather have that on your shoulder than hanging from the lid handle. At the table you take the strap off again, or it just gets in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then it stays shut. Open it every twenty minutes because yet another person wants to know what paint that is, and there'll be nothing cold left by two. For the meets around Nordhorn we pack it the night before, open it for the first time around eleven and maybe four times after that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent tests back this up. Treeline Review left the Flip 12 out at over 32 degrees in direct sun and still found about half the ice cubes intact after more than twenty hours. CleverHiker measured just under four days until the last cube was gone. The coffee for the drive over goes in the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/yeti-isolierbecher-rambler-tumbler-magslider-deckel\"\u003einsulated tumbler\u003c\/a\u003e alongside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 2: ANWENDUNGS-BILD hier einfügen (passend zu H3 #1)\n     Bildtyp: Anwendung — beide Hände ziehen den HydroLok Reißverschluss auf, Blick in die gepackte Tasche mit Eis und Dosen, Klapptisch im Freien\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-12-soft-cooler_anwendung.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 12 wird am HydroLok Reissverschluss geoeffnet\" --\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSoft or hard: your boot decides, not the litres\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the Hopper Flip 12, the size question isn't about litres. It's about whether your cooler can be soft or has to be hard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSoft means: it squeezes in between the toolbox and the tyre bag, fits behind the seat, rides on the back seat without a seatbelt. Hard means: you can sit on it, stand a camera on it, use it as a step. If your boot is a game of Tetris, take the Flip 12. If you need a spare seat in the paddock, take the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/yeti-kuehlbox-tragegurt-roadie-8-hard-cooler\"\u003ehard cooler\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBelow it sits the Daytrip line, and the real difference is bigger than the litre figures would have you think. The Lunch Bag and Lunch Box are lunch for one day and run on an ice pack rather than loose ice. The Flip 12 is the first size you can tip kilos of ice into without mopping anything up in the evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin the Flip family, the 12 is the sensible middle. The Flip 8 takes six cans with ice and is meant for one person; the Flip 18 takes twenty and is for the group. Twelve cans is a long day for two or a very relaxed day on your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHonest about the limits, too, so nobody gets caught out later. There are no outside pockets, so anything that has to stay dry goes elsewhere or into a SideKick case. Loaded high and set down on a slope, it tips. It's leakproof when fully closed, but it isn't a container you can submerge. YETI explicitly rules out dry ice, and the washing machine, tumble dryer and bleach too. And the warranty is three years, not the five you get on Rambler drinkware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 3: DETAIL\/ERGEBNIS-BILD hier einfügen (passend zu H3 #2)\n     Bildtyp: Ergebnis — geöffnete Tasche von oben am späten Nachmittag, Eis und beschlagene Dosen sichtbar, daneben das HitchPoint Gitter mit angeclipptem Flaschenöffner\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-12-soft-cooler_ergebnis.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 12 von oben geoeffnet mit Eis und kalten Dosen\" --\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFor everyone who's in the car park by six in the morning\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hopper Flip 12 earns its keep if you're out in a car park early in the morning with a folding table and a blanket more than three times a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cool bag lives a hard life in a car. It sits on hot tarmac, rides along next to sharp edges, gets wet, dusty, knocked about and crammed into corners. That's exactly where cheap bags give up. The seams pull apart, the liner tears along the fold, the closure goes slack, and after two summers there's a smell in there that no cleaner will shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Flip 12's outer shell, by contrast, is a high-density welded fabric that you wipe down rather than wash. Treeline Review dragged a Flip around campsites, canoes and kayaks for three years and reports no structural damage. It picks up scuffs, but nothing comes apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's not for you if you're catering for a family at the lake, and not if you need a verified number of hours on the label, because YETI doesn't give one for the Hopper range. Seven colourways, from Charcoal and Classic Navy to Olive Camo and Torch Orange, one size. The rest of the range sits side by side in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/yeti\"\u003eYETI category\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat's the link to everything else on our shelves. If you look after your car, you think in terms of surfaces that still look like day one years later, and you don't replace your kit every other summer. Same mindset, just on the boot floor instead of the paintwork. And on a practical level: what stays inside doesn't end up outside. No meltwater ring on the boot lip, no damp patch on the leather seat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe one line no manufacturer prints on the box: this bag doesn't die from the fabric, it dies from the zip. It runs tight, every test agrees on that; you need both hands and a firm pull.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGive it a quick rinse with clean water after every outing to get the sand and dust out, treat it to a thin film of lubricant a few times a year, and it'll still be going in ten years. Leave it gritty and force it, and after two seasons you've got a very expensive bag that won't close properly. Two minutes after every meet decide the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 4: LINEUP-BILD hier einfügen (nach H3 #3)\n     Bildtyp: Lineup — Hopper Flip 12 in mehreren der sieben Farbstellungen nebeneinander, gleiche Perspektive, neutraler Hintergrund\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-12-soft-cooler_lineup.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 12 Kuehltasche in sieben Farben im Lineup\" --\u003e","brand":"YETI","offers":[{"title":"Classic Navy (Blau)","offer_id":58253340705103,"sku":"D1-YET-70000006579","price":280.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Charcoal (Anthrazit)","offer_id":58253340737871,"sku":"D1-YET-70000002200","price":280.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/3272\/7375\/files\/hopper-flip-12-soft-cooler-kuehltasche__70000006579.png?v=1788190710"},{"product_id":"yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-18-soft-cooler","title":"Hopper Flip® 18 \"Soft Cooler\" Cool Bag (Large)","description":"\u003ch2 id=\"speakable-headline\"\u003eThe bag everyone else ends up drinking from\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote id=\"speakable-summary\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat is the YETI Hopper Flip 18? YETI's large cool bag for the whole crew round the folding table: twenty cans plus ice, and the meltwater stays inside. Not made for dry ice, not for submerging, and too big now for the footwell behind the passenger seat.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp id=\"speakable-definition\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe YETI Hopper Flip 18\u003c\/strong\u003e is YETI's large cool bag for people who don't just load up for themselves in the morning, but for half the crew. Eighteen litres, just over two kilos empty, about forty-one centimetres wide. It sits in the open boot next to the folding table, and by mid-afternoon it's the only one at the meet still handing out anything cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix in the morning, the car park is slowly filling up, and you slide it over the boot lip to the back. By eleven it's sitting in the shade of the open tailgate, the neoprene strap slung over the lid handle. And at some point in the afternoon a third mate wanders over and asks if there's anything left. There is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 1: HERO-BILD hier einfügen (nach erstem Text, VOR Key-Benefits)\n     Bildtyp: HERO+CAR — Hopper Flip 18 auf der Ladefläche der offenen Heckklappe, Klapptisch und zwei Klappstühle angeschnitten, frühes Morgenlicht auf dem Parkplatz\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-18-soft-cooler_hero.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 18 Kuehltasche auf der Ladeflaeche der offenen Heckklappe\" --\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwenty cans with ice, thirty without.\u003c\/strong\u003e That's the whole difference from its smaller sibling, and it's the difference between packing for yourself and packing for the crew. Fill it with nothing but ice and it takes twelve kilos. For a day with four of you round the folding table, this is the first size where nobody has to do the maths.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe meltwater stays inside.\u003c\/strong\u003e The wraparound HydroLok zip is leakproof once it's fully closed. Twelve kilos of ice can turn to water over the day and the boot floor stays dry. One real-world test left the bag out through two days of a heatwave and reported no leaks afterwards.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFully loaded, it's a good fourteen kilos.\u003c\/strong\u003e That's why the padded neoprene shoulder strap comes with it, and why you'll genuinely need it here, unlike with the smaller sizes. Add two side handles for lifting and a lid handle for the last five metres. Up front sits the HitchPoint grid for a bottle opener, a carabiner or a SideKick case.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cblockquote class=\"praxistipp\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDay-to-day from Detailing1:\u003c\/strong\u003e The most common mistake with the 18 is packing it like the 12. Same bag of ice as always, cans on top, zip it shut, and then you wonder why there's nothing but water in there by two o'clock. Eighteen litres of space need more ice, not the same amount.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eYETI's rule of thumb is twice as much ice as contents, by volume. And because the big shell soaks up cold itself the first time you fill it, the manufacturer explicitly recommends a sacrificial load of ice a few hours beforehand, which you tip out again before packing. Two ice packs on the bottom, cubed ice on top, gaps filled with an extra bottle of water. Then it does exactly what you bought it for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTwenty cans with ice, and then it stays shut\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cool bag doesn't chill anything down; it only holds on to what you put in. With eighteen litres, how things look in the afternoon is decided the evening before, in your kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYETI doesn't quote a figure in hours for the Hopper range, and we're not about to make one up. The manufacturer even spells out why: too many variables, from the type and amount of ice to the sun beating down on the lid. What it gives you instead is a method. Everything goes in pre-chilled, nothing at room temperature. Gaps get filled. The meltwater stays in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the morning you grab it by the side handles and slide it flat into the boot, not onto the back seat and not into the footwell. At the meet it goes in the shade of the open tailgate, not next to the front tyre on black tarmac. According to the manufacturer, ice lasts up to twice as long in the shade as in full sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the walk from the far end of the car park to the table, the neoprene strap goes on. With twenty cans and ice it weighs a good fourteen kilos, and that belongs on your shoulder, not hanging off the lid handle. Take the strap off again at the table, or it just gets in the way and drags across the paintwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then it stays shut. That's harder to stick to with the big one than with the small one, because more hands go in. Open it every twenty minutes and there'll be nothing cold left by three. For the meets around Nordhorn we pack it the night before, open it for the first time around eleven and maybe five times after that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent tests back this up. Mountain Weekly News still found about eighty-five per cent of the ice intact twenty-six hours after packing, with less than two centimetres of water in the bottom. OutdoorCrunch quotes up to thirty-six hours in ideal conditions and says in the same breath that a hard cooler does better over several days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 2: ANWENDUNGS-BILD hier einfügen (passend zu H3 #1)\n     Bildtyp: Anwendung — Blick von oben in die gepackte, geöffnete Flip 18 mit Kühlplatten am Boden, Würfeleis und Dosen, beide Hände am HydroLok Reißverschluss\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-18-soft-cooler_anwendung.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 18 gepackt mit Eis und Dosen wird am Reissverschluss geoeffnet\" --\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEighteen litres won't fit behind the passenger seat any more\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Flip 18 isn't just a bigger Flip 12; it's a different call altogether. You trade easy handling for capacity, and you feel that trade in the boot, not at the folding table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbout forty-one centimetres wide, thirty-three high, twenty-seven deep. That's a proper chunk of boot space, not something you wedge into a gap. The \u003ca href=\"\/products\/yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-12-soft-cooler\"\u003ecompact cool bag\u003c\/a\u003e from the same range squeezes in behind the passenger seat, between the toolbox and the tyre bag. The 18 wants a spot of its own. If your boot is a game of Tetris, take the small one. If someone regularly ends up empty-handed in the evening, take this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSoft is still soft, even at this size. It gives, it squashes flat when empty, and it's not a seat. If you need a solid box in the paddock that you can sit on or rest a camera on, the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/yeti-kuehlbox-tragegurt-roadie-8-hard-cooler\"\u003ehard cooler\u003c\/a\u003e is the better bet. And for several days on the trot, a hard box is the more honest tool anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe're honest about the small annoyances too, so nobody gets caught out later. There are no outside pockets, so anything that has to stay dry goes elsewhere or into a SideKick case on the HitchPoint grid. Loaded high and set down on a slope, it tips over more easily than the smaller sizes; that's the price of thirty-three centimetres of height.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's leakproof when fully closed, but it isn't a container you can submerge. YETI explicitly rules out dry ice for every Hopper. Same goes for the washing machine and the oven. And the warranty is three years against defects in materials and workmanship, not the five years you get on Rambler drinkware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 3: DETAIL\/ERGEBNIS-BILD hier einfügen (passend zu H3 #2)\n     Bildtyp: Vergleich\/Detail — Flip 18 und Flip 12 nebeneinander auf der Ladefläche, gleiche Perspektive, der Größenunterschied klar sichtbar, daneben das HitchPoint Gitter mit angeclipptem Flaschenöffner\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-18-soft-cooler_ergebnis.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 18 im Groessenvergleich neben der Flip 12 auf der Ladeflaeche\" --\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFor the one who always brings the drinks\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hopper Flip 18 earns its keep if you don't head out alone. If two mates jump in with you on a Sunday morning and you don't want to be counting cans come evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cool bag lives a hard life in a car. It sits on hot tarmac, rides along next to sharp edges, gets wet, dusty, knocked about and crammed into corners. That's exactly where cheap bags give up. The seams pull apart, the liner tears along the fold, the closure goes slack, and after two summers there's a smell in there that no cleaner will shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Flip 18's outer shell, by contrast, is a high-density welded fabric that you wipe down rather than wash. Treeline Review dragged Hopper Flips around campsites, canoes and kayaks for three years, the 18 on a canoe trip in Maine among others, and reports no structural damage. It picks up scuffs, but nothing comes apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's not for you if you're heading out solo with a sandwich and two bottles; it's too big and too wide for that. Not if you want to keep things cold for three days straight. And not if you need a verified number of hours on the label, because YETI doesn't give one for the Hopper range. Four colourways from us, one size. The rest of the range sits side by side in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/yeti\"\u003eYETI category\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat's the link to everything else on our shelves. If you look after your car, you think in terms of surfaces that still look like day one years later, and you don't replace your kit every other summer. Same mindset, just on the boot floor instead of the paintwork. And on a practical level: what stays inside doesn't end up outside. No water ring on the boot lip, no damp patch on the leather seat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe one line no manufacturer prints on the box: this bag doesn't die from the fabric, it dies from the zip. It runs tight; you need both hands and a firm pull. The newer version is better than its reputation, but it'll never be easy, and it isn't meant to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGive it a quick rinse with clean water after every outing to get the sand and dust out, treat it to a thin film of lubricant a few times a year, and it'll still be going in ten years. Leave it gritty and force it, and after two seasons you've got a very expensive bag that won't close properly. Two minutes after every meet decide the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- 📸 FOTO 4: LINEUP-BILD hier einfügen (nach H3 #3)\n     Bildtyp: Lineup — Hopper Flip 18 in den vier Farbstellungen Charcoal, Classic Navy, Olive\/King Crab und Light Desert Khaki nebeneinander, gleiche Perspektive, neutraler Hintergrund\n     Dateiname: d1_yeti-kuehltasche-hopper-flip-18-soft-cooler_lineup.png\n     Alt-Text: \"YETI Hopper Flip 18 Kuehltasche in vier Farben im Lineup\" --\u003e","brand":"YETI","offers":[{"title":"Classic Navy (Blau)","offer_id":58253340770639,"sku":"D1-YET-70000006581","price":340.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Charcoal (Anthrazit)","offer_id":58253340803407,"sku":"D1-YET-70000002202","price":340.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/3272\/7375\/files\/hopper-flip-18-soft-cooler-kuehltasche-gross__70000006581_a2715a44-663e-44af-98d4-87ab6b8e4d58.png?v=1788190777"}],"url":"https:\/\/detiiling1.com\/collections\/kuehltaschen.oembed","provider":"Detailing1","version":"1.0","type":"link"}