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Almost perfect “long” timer
This timer can go all the way up to 999 minutes and 55 seconds, which is an impressive 16 hours, 39 minutes, and 55 seconds. That’s more than enough for slow-cooking meat, deep cleaning projects, or long study blocks. It’s one of the few timers I’ve seen that can actually handle that kind of range.The display is large and easy to read, with crisp white numbers on a black background that offers excellent contrast. Even with my blurry eyesight, I can read it from across the room. The timer has a built-in magnet for sticking it to metal surfaces like your fridge or stove, but it also has a cleverly hidden kickstand so you can prop it up on a countertop.You set the time by turning the dial. Clockwise starts from 0 and counts up, while counterclockwise starts from the max and works down. The dial can be a little finicky, especially when you’re trying to fine-tune the seconds. It starts by adjusting seconds, then eventually switches to adjusting full minutes. If you need a specific second count, stop turning for a moment, then resume slowly to get the right value. I recommend setting the rough time first, then tweaking the seconds at the end.There’s also a “Set” button at the 12 o’clock position that controls the hundreds digit in minutes. For example, if you want a 4-hour timer (240 minutes), you would turn the dial to 40 minutes, then press the Set button twice to add 200 minutes. If you overshoot the target, just keep pressing Set until you cycle back around—no need to reset or power off.To reset the timer, hold the Start button (at the 6 o’clock position) for a few seconds. You may need to press and hold again to fully clear the time. If the timer is at 0 minutes and 0 seconds, pressing Start will switch it to a count-up mode, which is handy for tracking tasks without a preset duration.At $14, this timer is a great buy. It’s especially useful for cooking “low and slow” meats or anything requiring extended time tracking. Yes, setting the time can be a little touchy, but the extended range and thoughtful design make it far more versatile than typical kitchen timers. I’ve even seen it on sale for less—definitely worth picking up if you need a long-range, high-visibility timer.

A little sensitive but other than that It
Most of the time it’s fine, but there are sometimes where the numbers just jump around and the only way i get it to clear is turning it off and turning it back on, which is just annoying and makes it a little hard to use, i guess the dial/buttons are sensitive. Other than that, it does what it’s supposed to do, the beeping is an okay volume, and it’s been living on my fridge just fine.

Avoid at all costs: erratically adds minutes by the hundreds as you’re trying to set a time
This timer worked okay for about a half dozen uses and was fairly easy to operate once I got the hang of rotating the dial (since the same rotation of the knob controls BOTH the minutes AND seconds). The alert is loud enough, but not an insult to the ears. I’m using it as a kitchen timer, so I’ll never need for it to count upwards from zero (like a stopwatch), which it apparently can do. I’ll rarely (if ever) set if for more than 90 or 120 minutes, so the fact that it can count down from 999 minutes means nothing to me. And being able to set SECONDS has almost no functional value at all; in my adult lifetime I’ve set timers for multiple hundreds of cups of rice, boiled eggs, and cookie sheets with a minute-timer, and NOT ONCE have I ever wished I could set my timer for a fraction of a minute to get better results. I didn’t like the digital display itself, since the gaps between the little LEDs that form the numbers are too large; the numbers on any digital watch or clock display that I’ve ever owned were MUCH easier to read than the numbers on this display are. Lastly, not having HOURS on the timer is idiotic; I’m good at math (so it doesn’t really affect me), but anyone whose brain is not wired for math will be irritated trying to calculate how many minutes to set the timer for when slow-cooking a roast for 3 hours and 45 min.My original review was 3 stars and its primary points have been briefly re-stated in the paragraph above. Unfortunately, after about a month of frustration I’ve returned to using my ancient kitchen timer, since this thing is clearly defective, necessitating a downgrade to 1 star and the editing of this review.I didn’t love this timer, but I didn’t hate it either, UNTIL it suddenly started adding hundreds of minutes to the timer as I was trying to set it. I re-read the instructions to be sure I wasn’t doing anything wrong, but no matter how carefully you try to add minutes (eg from 35 to 45) the hundreds digit just starts cycling itself upwards to 9, back to zero, and then up towards 9 again, over and over until you take your hands completely off the time (and it continues for a few seconds thereafter before finally pausing). This makes it extremely difficult to set a timer for 40 minutes, as you just have to get lucky that the timer will stop cycling at 040 (and not 140, 240, 340 etc minutes). This defect essentially makes this timer unusable garbage.If you’re going to manufacture a timer where a single rotating dial controls multiple things, then you’d better not produce it using cheap electronics, which is obviously what has happened here. There are far better products out there than this one (even without the electronically defective dial). While this timer might work adequately for the first few uses, eventually the defect will rear its ugly head, and you will have completely wasted your money. Even if on sale for less than 10 dollars, don’t take the bait, as you will end up throwing this thing in the garbage, unless you’re lucky enough to get it returned in the allowable time period.