KitchenAid KQ912 99M Digital Single Event Magnetic Visual Timer with Backlight, Cooking, Classroom, Egg Timer, Black

Do not purchase. Does not work.
Do not purchase.I needed to replace a KitchenAid timer that I had purchased 20 years ago.I purchased one of these, and it did not work.I purchased another one, and it did not work.You would think that for 20 bucks, KitchenAid would produce a simple device that works.It does not.

A Poorly Designed Timer
I do not normally write reviews but this is such an example of poor industrial design that I wanted to call it out:• It is physically well made. The materials are nice, it is pleasant to hold in the hand.• As other reviewers point out, it dims automatically after several seconds. The result is you can’t see the timer as you walk around the kitchen without physically going over to it and pressing the illumination button. Of course, since your hands are busy cooking, this is not feasible. Seeing the timer while cooking is the main use case for a kitchen timer, and this design makes it impossible.• The “minute” and “second” labels blink constantly when the timer is on. This is annoying and there is no reason for it.• One of the main things you want to do with a timer is to reset it. You can only do this with this one by pushing the two leftmost buttons at the same time. You would know this without reading the instructions. If you have not read the instructions or you just forget, you will not be able to set this timer back to 0.I don’t understand this timer. It feels like it was a nice piece of hardware and they deliberately designed it to be as difficult to use as possible. It should be in a museum of bad design.

worst timer.
Stuck it on the microwave above the stove. Can’t read the display unless I walk over to the stove. When I close the microwave it falls off the microwave. I expected the display to at least as readable as my first two purchases of kitchenaid timers. Beeper is loud enough nut due to the readability have to carry it around, sometimes gets turned off in pocket.

Good little kitchen timer
This is a review of “KitchenAid 99M Digital Single Event Magnetic Visual Timer” – a simple countdown/count-up digital kitchen timer.This is a simple device that does exactly what it’s supposed to. It’s magnetic – with two strong magnets on the back – which allows it to be stuck onto any reasonably flat metal surface. In the pictures, the timer’s stuck on the microwave, but the fridge works as well. Didn’t have any problems with the timer sliding out of place since the magnets are more than strong enough to hold up the timer.The display has large numbers and is easy to read in reasonable kitchen lighting with the backlight off, but pressing the backlight button will turn on a bright backlight for half a minute.If you tap the Play/Pause button on the timer when the display reads “00 00”, then the timer counts up. You can set a countdown timer by hitting the minute and second button until you get the desired time, then hitting Play/Pause to start the countdown. The alarm sounds exactly like a travel digital clock’s alarm – plenty loud enough if you’re in the general area of the timer, but you probably won’t hear it if you’re, say, on a different floor of the house separated from the timer by several walls and floor.The timer displays only minutes (up to 99) and seconds – no hours – so is only good for timing up to an hour and 39 minutes.