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The Best Soft Coolers

  are ideal for keeping food and drinks cold when you don’t want to lug a heavy hard-sided cooler. They’ve recently gotten more technical, promising better performance and longer cooling times. Do they deliver? To find out, we tested 16-to 20-liter coolers in a broad range of designs. We found that the coolers were shaped either like boxes or totes. We preferred the box-shaped

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