Cook-Rite 60-Minute Quartz Timer, White
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Cook-Rite 60-Minute Quartz Timer, White
Customer Review: Try it
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this 60-minute "kitchen timer" after 2 of my favorite identical-looking mechanical ones had to be sequentially returned because they stopped instead of keeping the time. I got this based on other's reviews, so I thought that I should add my "two cents." First, I like it! (Although it doesn't "tick"). Some people said the "ring" is too quiet, but I've heard it from behind a closed door, from around a corner, and from across a great room while I was on a treadmill. "For a loud and long ring turn past 30, then set to desired time." I turn mine to 60, and then back. The beeping annoys me until I turn it off, which is good, I guess. Because of its placement at the base of the timer, it's true that you can't see the blinking light supposedly indicating the timer is working, unless that light is at your eye level, but I've grown to trust the thing. I think you should try it.Customer Review: Great, Accurate Timer
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had this timer for over a year and find it is the one I count on the most. It is easy to set. One has to get used to the fact that there is little tension when turning the dial, but I have no problem with getting it to the minute I want and having it stay there. That said, I can see that someone with a hand tremor might find it more difficult to set accurately than a mechanical timer. It is silent as it counts down, with a light at the bottom corner flashing. The ring is loud and about 90 seconds long. That was very important to me. I use it frequently, and have yet to change the battery. I would definitely recommend this timer and will buy another when I need to replace one of my others.
January 3, 2011
Still have not had to change the battery and use it every day. I have purchased a second one and am as happy with it as I was with the first.
Customer Review: works great
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the same size and works the way a regular mechanical kitchen timer is supposed to work but which no one can actually make anymore. Instead of a mechanical timer, this timer uses a battery and a quartz crystal to keep time and count down to the electronic beeping alarm. The advantage of the alarm over the mechanical bell is that it can sound for longer. This one sounds for 90 seconds and gets progressively louder and faster. This is not the most wonderful thing, but what is wonderful is that this timer actually works. I wish it was about 14 inches in diameter with huge numbers but it will have to do as is. I am content that... did I mention that it works?Customer Review: Very simple, but effective.
Summary: 5 Stars
I use an electric espresso maker at work that does not have an auto shut-off feature. I really got tired starting the brew, then promptly forgetting about it as I get absorbed by what I am working on. I would either smell the burnt coffee and remember, or think "I should go make some espresso", at witch point I would remember and then smell the burnt coffee. Now I have this timer velcroed to the wall next to the espresso maker and just set it for about ten minutes as a reminder. Because it is quartz and not mechanical I don't have the ticking to bug me while I get back to work, but am also reminded in when the coffee is done.Customer Review: Old-Fashioned timer in a new fangled way
Summary: 5 Stars
It was my mistake but I thought I was purchasing an old-fashioned wind up type timer. I should have read Amazon's copy better. Instead I was pleasantly surprised to find a battery operated timer that looks like the old-fashioned timer.
No matter as I am very pleased with the operation of this new-fashioned timer. It's easy to read the numbers, a plus for me as I am a middle-age woman wearing bifocals, easy to set the timer and the ring is loud but not too loud.
In fact, this timer works a lot like the old-fashioned one except it needs a battery to keep on going.
Highly recommend.