Review on 🍳 YOOYIST Commercial 4 Channels Kitchen Timers: Loud Alarm Cooking Reminders for Restaurants - Stainless Steel Clear Display for Multiple Events by Mandy Johnson

* * * Update: * * * We just used this timer in production and it's perfect for our purposes. Its design once resulted in my not-so-technical partner accidentally pressing a button (the DOWN button, no doubt) which caused the alarm not to go off when the timer was running; This leads me to believe that the volume change function should somehow be placed one level down in the controls so that this can't happen through an accidental button press, as a failed alarm can very easily result in the death of a batch of goods. But apart from this unique case, this timer proved indispensable to our process. =-=-= Although I confess I haven't used this timer in real life - I only got it about an hour ago. - I've been playing with it and figuring out how its functions work and I can't wait to try it out in our commercial kitchen. Once you understand how it works (and it's not a complicated or lengthy process) it will be insanely easy. with highly visible displays and mostly one-button operation, unless you need to use more than four different timer settings on a regular basis (in which case you'll probably want to buy one of the other available timer banks with more than four timers). A potentially confusing point is that the manual says you can set the alarm volume at two different times: 1) whenever the timer is not in time setting mode (i.e. when the timer is idle), and 2) when the Timer has just expired When the countdown ends, the display shows "END” and the alarm turns off. ff. This is technically correct, but it really only makes sense to try this under condition #2 as there is no audible or visual feedback under condition #1 letting you know what volume you have set your alarm to . Pressing the INCREASE and DECREASE buttons when the timer is simply inactive changes the volume of the alarm, but gives you no indication of how the alarm will sound when it goes off. I discovered this by first trying to adjust the volume when the timer was idle and then doing a test countdown; When I hit the DECREASE button, it seemed to me that I had only lowered the alarm volume by one notch and it wouldn't go any lower, but then as the timer started counting down I realized that this was actually over press the DECREASE button several times to silence the alarm. I couldn't tell because the timer beeped the same every time I pressed the DECREASE button. Only on condition #2 - when the timer was ticking and the display read "END" - did pressing the UP and DOWN buttons give me audible feedback as to the actual alarm volume setting. can do this under very specific conditions in upstate New York) with a conventional home oven and a commercial convection oven, and with that equipment we need to flip the pans at some point in the baking process to get consistent results. I was hoping that this timer's reminder feature would make this easier, but it doesn't work the way it would be ideal for us: when the reminder is triggered, the timer just keeps running in the background - it doesn't pause or stop because of the reminder triggered. (If there is actually a way to stop a running timer with this device, I haven't found it; pressing the start/stop timer button while it's running simply stops it and resets it to its original settings). So, for each of the four timers, the total time you set is the total time you get whether you also set the reminder tone or not. Because of this, we use two timers for each batch: timers #1 and #3 are set for the time we're baking before we flip the pans, and timers #2 and #4 are for the time set that we bake. after we send them back. Timers #1 and #2 are for oven #1 and timers #3 and #4 are for oven #2. Once the timers are set, starting and stopping them is as easy as pressing the number button to the right of the timer. If there's any reason why we don't like this thing in practice, I'll come back and update my review, but I don't foresee it.