What is a camping fridge?
A camping fridge is a portable version of a traditional household refrigerator. These fridges are made to be taken on the road so you can keep your food and drinks cold on your next camping trip.
Single zone or dual zone fridges
When you first begin researching portable fridges and freezers, you'll come across two core variants: single zone and dual zone. These are as you might expect from their nomenclature: a single zone fridge has the one compartment and a dual zone has two.
The benefit of a dual zone portable fridge is that one compartment can act as a fridge while the other can simultaneously behave as a freezer. This is obviously very handy on your longer camping or 4WD trips where you can potentially spend significant periods of time away from civilisation. But they're also bulkier, heavier, demand more power and cost a lot more.
On the other hand, you have single zone portable fridges. These offer more flexibility for day-to-day use or weekend trips. They're typically smaller, cheaper and more efficient to run. And just because they're single zone doesn't mean they can't double as both a fridge and a freezer. Most models allow for both use cases. The downside is you can only do one or the other at any one time.
