Kitchen timer

[Julio]

Hello,

I was going to purchase a new lux minute minder kitchen timer for when i put stuff in the oven. I started reading in reviews on how the old ones were better. I header over to ebay and i picked up a robertshaw minute minder for just about the same price of a new one but the one i picked up is about 40+ years old.

A picture of the timer i picked up.

What type of kitchen timers do members user here at DC?

 

[Wyogal]

very cool. I just use the kitchen timer on my microwave.

 

[Alix]

OMG! I broke about 6 timers like that when I lived at home. I just buy my timers at the dollar store if I need them. I usually use the timer on my microwave though.

 

[GB]

I use my microwave timer. It is much more accurate than the type you have above (not that I ever need to be THAT accurate). I use it because it is there so there is no need for an additional item which takes up space and has to be taken out when needed. My microwave is always out and easily accessible thus so is the timer.

 

[Andy M.]

Digital timers on the stove and the microwave. Digital timer on my Polder meat thermometer.

I don't know where you heard the old ones are better. Guaranteed, the digital ones are more accurate.

 

[GrillingFool]

I have a 3 timer Sonoma Williams that I think stinks. Hard to use, eats batteries.
Also have 2 timers from the same era as yours. THose are handy because you can
carry them around the house.
If I am timing and in the kitchen I use my microwave timer too.

 

[MostlyWater]

i never replacedmy wind-up timer and i want to. the ones i see sold are really junk.

 

[Wyogal]

but, that timer looks so cool!

 

[spork]

I agree, very cool. When I was a teenager, my mom used this timer on me whenever I picked up the telephone to call my girlfriend.

I've had a Polder Thermo-Timer for many years. Shortly after I bought it, Alton Brown debuted on the Food Network. I was pleased with myself when I saw that it was also apparently his timer of choice. Works great. Thermal probe is attached to a long cord with detachable plug, and the alarm can be set to a temperature for perfect meats in the oven. My only gripes with it are: it sets only hour and minute, no seconds; and thermal probe is only safe to about 400-degrees.

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

Another dollar store timer user here. I take it with me if I leave the kitchen. Plus my oven timer is harder to hear and only beeps a few times. I have ADD and if I am super focused on something 2 or three beeps might not get through to me.

 

[Guts]

I'm have been looking for a count up timer and only a count up one not any thing else... and can't find one..
I want it for timing deep frying

 

[Dillbert]

I've got a Time Check by Component Design Northwest, Inc - Portland OR

three timers in one, can set individually to count up, count down - sideways mebbe, dunno.

the countdown is neat because after it alarms it continues to count negative secs - so when walk back in the kitchen and realize that was not a UFO ringing the doorbell, you know how far you've gone.....

 

[GB]

I also have timers (both count up and count down) on my iPhone which is always on me so if I am in a different room I can use that.

 

[TheNoodleIncident]

i have a very basic digital one from BBB....it is small, easy to use and read, wasn't expensive, and has a nice loud/annoying beep....the part i like best is the fact that it's magnetic....so most of the time it stays on my stove hood, but i can move it to the fridge or anywhere else i need....of course, i guess i could just put the thing in my pocket if im moving all over the house

counting the time after the alarm sounds is a nice feature....i dont have and dont need it now, but i could see myself appreciating it if i ever did have it

 

[MostlyWater]

look what i just got on ebay !!!

TRIPLE Timer Wall Mounted Free Standing Magnetic New - eBay (item 220491064846 end time Nov-05-09 08:44:54 PST)

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

The link didn't work for me.
Was it like this one?
TRIPLE Timer Wall Mounted Free Standing Magnetic

 

[MostlyWater]

yes, xactly.

 

[Max Sutton]

LUX timers

I have two LUX timers in my kitchen.

I use them all the time.

 

[Guts]

This one is what I found at the restraint supply today cost was $13.35
Counts UP and Down.
waterproof
shatterproof
Big digit
loud&long audio and visual alarm
stop and restart
last count recall
counts up after zero
2-way mounting magnet/stand

CDN TMW1 waterproof timer. by CDN, Digital Timers at Goodman's Small Appliance & Housewares

 

[Rob Babcock]

At home I just set the timer on my range. Digital, minutes and hours. More accurate than that I use my watch. At work I use those obnoxious pyramid-shaped commercial jobbies.