PINGKO Digital Kitchen Timer for Cooking - Visual Countdown Alarm Timers Small with Battery Loud Sound Large LED Display - Cute Baking Timers for Oven Food Classroom Desk Home Office Reading Bedroom

With me being a person that doesn’t cook much I use this item to help me keep time with food dishes. It’s loud and performs well. It’s super convenient and very stylish for my kitchen, its fits my color format and it’s portable if I would like to travel with it.

This little unit passes my test. Upon receiving the unit, I threw the instruction booklet away to see if I can figure it out on my own. The batteries are included with the package, takes 3 triple-A batteries. Down on the bottom panel there are two adjustable switches: the sound setting and a eco mode button. Anyways, below is what I have to say about it:- There are 3 sound settings, mute, low volume and high volume. There really isn't a drastic difference between low and high volume, but considering if you're running a cooking fan, you may appreciate that both volumes are on the higher end of the spectrum.- The eco button is not that necessary, it helps you shorten the display timer by a large extent, but that's soon becoming a nuisance because most times, I'd like my display to stay lit at all times if possible. But I can see how that can help elongate the battery life. After all, this isn't some lithium battery pack that you can keep recharging.- The timer's control knob makes it an ease to navigate through the different functions. All you have is the turn and press sort of action, but I'm still having some difficulties with it because there is a stopwatch mode and there's a timer mod, and it took me a few minutes to toggle through everything and latch onto this learning curve. The turn knob has a recognition of your turn speed. So if you turn it so slowly, it'll move in 1-second intervals, but if you start turning the knob quickly, you can set it in 5-second intervals, and I still don't know how to jump it to do 1-minute selections, so if you can't figure that out, you'll have to just move multiple turns to get there. I find myself turning the knob VERY fast to get to larger number settings.Overall, this is a decent timer/stopwatch. I figured everything out without using the instruction manual. So can you. 5-stars for me, satisfied.

I love kitchen timers, especially those with anything analog or old fashioned about them. This timer has a big dial that you turn to set the timer, and giant numbers you can read across the room. It’s easy to change the batteries, and there are settings to control the volume and brightness of the display to suit your tastes. I like everything about this timer, except: the big button is a little too easy on mine to press, and sometimes I find myself starting and stopping the timer with the same press. While that seems to be a genuine flaw in the product, it also takes up more space than I think it should because it has no magnet and must be put on a horizontal surface, and with the curved button nothing can be put on top of it. If the button weren’t so touchy on mine it’d be a 5 star product. Recommended to people who like cute kitchen gadgets.

its a little difficult to manage the time on this because slow turn changes time by 5 sec intervals. turning faster changes time by mins, but slow and fast on this is relative. it still works admirably, and gets the job done.

Timer works as advertised. It takes a moment to become familiar with it, though. Once the batteries have been loaded, that's pretty much it. The action is all in the top. Either push it, or spin it to interact with the timer functions. At first, pushing down on the timer knob turns on the display, then turn it to set a time. Just as it is advertised.The display is bright, large, and easy to see due to its high contrast design.It is more mobile than most timers, as it is designed to sit on most surfaces.The only contrary observation I would make is that twisting the top to set a time can be a little awkward, but that that is minor in the overall scheme of it, in my opinion.Looks and feels durable, delivers timer functions as advertised, easy to use. A definite value for the money.