A Mess of Kitchen Timers

Design Sponge has collected a simple links-and-pictures gathering of a couple dozen kitchen timers. They left out my current favorite: the LEGO Egg Timer.

kitchen timer roundup [DesignSpongeOnline.com]

[#1 posted by Anonymous , December 14, 2007 9:54 AM]

I bought that same timer at Legoland a few years ago. Completely worthless. Timing consistency was all over the map and the bell is nearly inaudible most of the time (completely inaudible the rest). Kitsch value is all the value it's got.

[#2 posted by Lizzle , December 14, 2007 12:03 PM]

I'd love an analogue timer to sit cutely in the kitchen. Unfortunately, a single hour is not a practical upper limit for a timer, so unless you're not planning on lots of resetting during the cooking time, a digital one is the way to go. I use the timer on my mobile phone, but when someone gets round to designing an affordable, beautiful and functional digital timer that I can find in the UK, I'm buying it.

[#3 posted by Anonymous , December 15, 2007 11:23 AM]

The best timer I've found is the Polder 212-00 Digital Timer (see http://www.amazon.com/Polder-212-00-Digital-Vibrating-Audible/dp/B0002EXVIM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1197746293&sr=8-2)

It has a choice of alerting by sound, vibration, or light and you can set both an hour:minute countdown and a minute:second countdown. I use it to study (50 minutes on, 10 minutes break) and just switch between the two countdowns without having to reprogram anything and I find the blinking light is less jarring to me than an alarm sound.

Anyway, I'm not affiliated with it but I tried a bunch of timers, and it's got my vote!
Ted

[#4 posted by mdhatter , December 15, 2007 12:06 PM]

a "mess" of kitchen timers? is that like a herd of buffalo.

[#5 posted by Anonymous , December 17, 2007 3:27 AM]

Just to defend the lego timer. We have one and it's plenty loud. The timing has always been fine too. Perhaps you got a duff one?