Digital Kitchen Timer

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Digital Kitchen Timer

This Polder Digital Timer is a kitchen gadget that has an unusual combination of vibration, sound, and light alarms. It will help you whether you are grilling meat, baking desserts, roasting chicken, slow cooking goulash or doing other things that require the use of a timer.

Polder Digital Timer with Vibration, Sound, and Light Alarms

What is it? It is a multi-purpose and simple to use count down timer with vibration, sound and light alerts. These alerts can be switched on or off independently of one another, allowing you to choose which notification(s) you wish to receive when the time is up. In addition it can also be used as a stop watch i.e. a count up timer.

What are its main features?

It can be used as a count down timer or a stop watch.
The timer can used in two modes: hours and minutes mode or minutes and seconds mode.
Maximum time is 19 hours 59 minutes when used in hours and minutes mode, or 99 minutes and 59 seconds when used in minutes and seconds mode.
Vibration, sound and flashing light alerts: All of them can be operated independently.
The timer can be paused and resumed as required.
It can stand up on a table with its pop out stand. It can be clipped to a shirt pocket. With its magnet at the back, it can also be attached to the door of a fridge.
It is compact, lightweight, portable and thus can be used anywhere.
It uses 2 AAA batteries which are readily available.
It is very easy to use. There are 4 simple on/off switches at the back for selecting the mode and the 3 alarms. No thinking is required to operate them.

Most timers come with just the sound alarm. The vibration and light alerts are what give this digital kitchen timer its great versatility. You can choose to switch any of the alerts on or off independently to suit your circumstances. It can be used to time long durations up to nearly 20 hours.

What else can you use it for? This is where things get interesting. Use the Polder digital timer to:

Time your presentations and speeches
Keep track of your child's computer time
Time your exercise sessions
Allocate a fixed amount time for everyone in company meetings
Time your yoga or meditation sessions
Remind you to take regular medications
Time your daughter's piano practice
Wake you up after a short lunchtime nap
Remind yourself of an important radio or TV broadcast
Limit how long you surf the internet
Do a mock examination by limiting the time you are allowed to solve the problems
Limit the length of your children's meals (if they are eating too slowly)
Remind you to collect your laundary
Limit the length of your phone conversation
Time experiments in the laboratory
Set productivity goals for your projects
Decide how much to bill your client if you charge by the hour worked
Remind you to board your flight as it is easy to lose a sense of time when you are shopping at the airport
etc etc ...

As you can see, this list can go on and on. You can really use it for all sorts of things.

This Polder Digital Kitchen Timer has received excellent reviews. Reading through the reviews you will find that most of the users seem to be using it for purposes other than timing the cooking of their food in the kitchen. This may probably be one of the most useful gadgets you can have!

Gift Idea: From keen cooks to children to someone who needs to learn better time management, this will make a nice gift. This digital kitchen timer is a great gadget for every body.

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