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- 12/24 hour clock
- 100 minute timer and stopwatch
- Instantly recalls last setting
- Flip over to change between clock and timer functions
- Batteries included
Product Description
This Polder Digital Hourglass Kitchen Timer has a wonderful shape and design so that any cook can put it on the kitchen counter when not in use. The timer can be flipped over to change between clock and timer functions. It has a 100 minute timer and stopwatch. A great gift idea!
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A problem was immediately apparent when I removed the Polder Digital Hourglass Kitchen Timer from its packaging: The reflection from the clear plastic covers over the LCD displays makes reading the time from more than couple of feet away very hard or impossible.
(What the picture on the product page doesn’t show is that there are actually plastic coverings over the LCD screens. The picture has probably been photoshopped, and shows no indication of the problem with reflection.)
A few more complaints:
(1) Although the aesthetics of the timer is quite appealing overall, the timer looks a lot more plasticky than it does in the picture from the product page. While the construction of the unit isn’t exactly shoddy, it doesn’t scream quality either.
(2) The timer malfunctioned on me once — the display froze up (not sure what I did to cause that) and the only way I was able to unfreeze it was to remove the battery and put it back in.
(3) The unit is poorly packaged — when I took the unit out of the package, it already had a few scratches on one side (probably came from the unit being bumped around in the package).
There *are* a couple of things I really like about the timer, however.
(1) When stood on one of its ends, the timer displays the clock; when it’s inverted, the timer displays the countdown timer. Nifty!
(2) It continues to keep track of the time elapsed after the timer has counted down to zero.
The timer comes in silver and black as well.
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The Polder Digital Hourglass Kitchen Timer serves its intended purpose very well. But I would have to give it an overall rating of 3.5 stars because of the issue with the hard-to-read LCD displays and the slightly less-than-satisfactory quality of the build.
Rating: 3 / 5
Revised Jan 2010 – Well, my replacement timer has been working fine. No more reviews on this.
Revised October 16, 2009 – It broke today! – I’ll try another one. I hope this was a quirk.
OK – so kitchen timers should just work, and this one is OK. It is a bit quirky.
Downsides
- The display is a little hard to read due to glare when in direct light.
- The time “+” or “-” buttons are a bit stiff, and you have to hold them down for too long to get the time to increment without multiple pushes.
Upsides –
- The darn thing is just fun to have around and play with.
- The alarm is nice and loud and gives you a few bursts at a lower volume first so it won’t surprise you if you are right next to it.
- You can’t lose it! The bright red color is really easy to spot in a drawer.
Overall, I like it and use it regularly.
Rating: 4 / 5
This timer is very cute and looks like a sand timer. It works very well as a timer. I have not been able to get the clock feature to work but I bought it as a timer, and it works.
Rating: 4 / 5
My sister-in-law has a kitchen with red accents and she likes modern, funky things, so when I discovered this, I figured I would give it a try….When it came, I was a bit disappointed because it looked more plastic than it did in the picture, but still, for the price, looked like a cool gift. She loves it – she uses it daily and says she has never had a problem…I’ve never seen another one like it and it has some really cool features I didn’t know about when I bought it – the clock is cool and she likes how it continues to keep the time even when it has gone off, so she knows how long it’s been done if she misses it for some reason…. A great and unique gift!
Rating: 4 / 5
This timer works pretty well so far. It is a little hard to see through the thick curved plastic as mentioned in some other reviews but since I am usually within a couple feet of it, I can just reach over and see it up close. It does everything it is suposed to and has even withstood numerous accidental (and a few not so accidental!) falls from my son’s bedside table. He loves that you can flip it over for the time and back for the timer and I love that it has sand icons that show him approximately how much time is left, just like a real sand timer would!
Rating: 4 / 5