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I bought this timer about 3 months ago and have been using while cooking, baking, and exercising. It truly is a fine product. The timer has a quality appearance to it. It fits in the palm of your hand, is easy to read display; easy to operate; has a strong magnet that lets it be positioned on any steel surface (stove, refrigerator, vent hood), has a fold-out stand that lets it sit on a counter top; and has a loud (attention getting but not smoke-alarm-loud) sound when the timing is finished. I rarely write reviews, and I only write them after using a product for a reasonable period of time. I was really impressed with this well-designed timer and would not hesitate buying it again for my personal use or as a gift.

This timer is great. Easy to use. Easy to see. Loud, so it can be heard. Keeps making noise until you respond. It does seconds which is important for times when I need to count seconds. Three simple buttons. Perfect.

The Elegant Digital Kitchen Timer has a strong magnet . . . helpful (can hang on a metal cabinet). Timer works well and is easy to set . . . helpful. The beep is loud enough to hear in another room . . . helpful. Timer numbers are large enough to read easily . . . very helpful. This is an excellent item!

This timer is simple, easy to use, and solid. The numbers are large enough to read from a good distance. It’s not cheap feeling at all and I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality for such an inexpensive timer. Life time warranty too. I bought the gray/ gray one. I spent hours here looking at different timers and am very picky about products that get a lot of use and I will need for a long time. Super nice timer.

Numbers are nice and big making it easy to read. Great magnet for sticking to stove. Wish it would let me add time a different way, if you need 55 minutes, you have to push the button 55 times to count up. VERY LOUD BEEP. But it does the job.

This timer is easy to use and hard to ignore when the time is up. It is also nice that it is magnetic. Recommend it.

I purchased this after being disappointed with the durability and inaccuracy of the mechanical kitchen timers. I currently use it for timing the brewing of tea, as I often get distracted and let it brew longer than I intended. This design is sleek, elegant, and easy to use. My stainless steel refrigerator doors are not magnetic, but fortunately the side of the refrigerator protrudes from the enclosure by 3 inches, just enough for this 2 1/2 inch wide kitchen timer. I snug the vertical edge up against the frame of the enclosure to keep it from rotating on pressing the buttons; although the magnet is strong enough for the timer not to move up or down, due to textured surface of the side of the refrigerator with slick paint, it may allow more movement than a flat, more maté finish would. The alarm is loud enough to hear in the same room, but I find if it's in the kitchen and I go into another room, maybe 20 feet away from the kitchen entrance, it it is hard to hear over ambient noises such as air-conditioning or fans, let alone, I imagine, if one were watching television. So I may keep it in it's place on the refrigerator and set the time there, but I will probably take it with me when using it if I leave the kitchen.* I have noticed with some battery devices of this type with electronic beeps, alarm clocks and such, that the volume of the beep can vary from one unit to the next of the same device. I wonder if that's the case here. I haven't used the stand much yet, but it seems to work well.* Although the magnet protrudes from the back of the case about a millimeter, allowing a small air space between the alarm speaker near the top of the back side, above the magnet, and the surface to which it attaches, it still seems to muffle the beep somewhat (although it doesn't seem to be much louder if the stand is used). I have found an idiosyncratic solution that may only work in certain circumstances, but by turning the timer sideways so the top portion with the speaker extends past the side of the refrigerator where the door hinge is and lies over the space between the side and the door where the rubber seal is, the resonant space effectively doubles the volume of the beep, so I can now hear it in the other room. If that area of your refrigerator isn't assessable, on designs with two front doors it has been found that placing the speaker area over the gap between the two front doors, if they are magnetic, also increases the sound volume, perhaps depending on the design of the refrigerator. When using the stand, I have found placing the timer up against a wall, or the side of a square cookie or sugar jar, for example, also increases the volume, but not as much as the refrigerator gap.Update:I have periodically tried to find things that will help amplify the beep, and I just discovered that If you put the timer in the inverted rounded cover of the case which Clinique soap bars come in, with the top of the timer inside, the cover will rock on its side so the timer is basically horizontal and this roughly doubles the volume of the beep, similar to the method of using the gap between the side of the refrigerator and the door.

I've always liked and preferred analog timers. They're fun and extremely easy to use. Doesn't take much to know that one only needs to turn the knob to the desired time. Plus, they have cute designs. The downfall is if they're dropped, they break easily and that ends that.Even digital timers aren't that much better. I purchased this with great reservation unsure of whether it would work or fail like the others I've tried. I was about to write off digital timers for good until I found this gem.This "Elegant Digital Kitchen Timer" has been absolutely terrific. Easy to use, easy to read with large numbers, and the timer is loud enough to be heard from the other room.Other digital kitchen timers I've tried died after only a few uses. It didn't take long before the digital numbers became hard to read or portions of the numbers disappeared. It became hard to tell if a number was an 3, 6 or 9. That's the problem with digital readouts. Just as frustrating was the fact that the magnet that keeps the timer stuck to an appliance fell off, rendering it useless for that purpose. It's always possible that the magnet fell off due to higher humidity levels here since I live on a lake however that only pertains to summer months since I live in a northern state. But this little timer has withstood excess humidity levels in summer and remains strongly intact as we now enter autumn. I never anticipated that I would enjoy a timer this much. It has been a gem--even for a digital.

This digital timer is large, with intuitive design that makes it very easy to use. The display is also easy to read, and the alarm fairly loud, sufficient for a senior with moderate hearing loss to hear.I got this for my elderly mom for use to time her exercises. She has arthritis of the hand that make it difficult to use her fingers effectively, but it was very easy for her to use this timer and its buttons.

Delivered on time. Easy to use. Simple elegant design.