{"id":11247,"date":"2025-07-24T12:53:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11247"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:53:27","slug":"dry-ice-to-transport-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/dry-ice-to-transport-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Ice to Transport Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

My 93 year old aunt Dorothy makes caps, AKA cappelletti<\/a>, for the family.
\nShe made me a gallon bag in Nashville. I got it home on the plane with dry ice. Here’s how<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>8 lbs of dry ice in 2 blocks from the local Publix in Nashville. The night before flying, I put the caps and dry ice in the center of my luggage, wrapped in my jacket and clothes. When I went to fly the next day, all the clothes were cold and a bit frosty and there were about 2 lbs of ice left. As Tami suggested, I put a note inside my luggage saying “2 lbs dry ice” in case they opened the bag while it was checked. (UPDATE: Hmm, I’m looking at the rules and maybe I should have put the note on the outside of the package and gotten airline approval)<\/p>\n

When I arrived at home, I still had about 1 and 1\/2 lb of dry ice and the caps were in perfect condition!<\/p>\n

You’re allowed to fly with up to 5.5 lbs of dry ice in luggage<\/a> but I’ve had trouble on a previous flight where they made me throw out the dry ice. The caps made it, still frozen, kept cold by the cold clothing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My 93 year old aunt Dorothy makes caps, AKA cappelletti, for the family. She made me a gallon bag in Nashville. I got it home on the plane with dry ice. Here’s how 8 lbs of dry ice in 2 blocks from the local Publix in Nashville. The night before flying, I put the caps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11249,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11247\/revisions\/11249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}