YOOYIST Commercial 4 Channel Digital Kitchen Timer Loud Alarm Cook Timer | 4 Independent Channels, Stainless Steel, Easy-to-Read LED Display for Restaurant

* * * Update: * * * We have now used this timer during production and it's perfect for our purposes. Its design has once caused my not-terribly-technically-minded partner to press a button by accident (undoubtedly the DECREASE button), causing the alarm not to sound when the timer went off; this makes me think that volume changing function should be somehow placed one level lower in the controls so that this couldn't happen with a single accidental press of a button, as the alarm not sounding could very easily bring about the ruin of a batch of goods. But other than that one-time occurrence, this timer has proven itself indispensable to our process. =-=-= While I confess I haven't actually used this timer under real-world conditions yet - I only received it about an hour ago - I have played with it and figured out how its functions work and I can't wait to try it out in our commercial kitchen. Once you do figure out how it works (and that's not a difficult or lengthy process), it's crazy easy to use, with highly visible readouts and basically one-button operation unless you regularly need to use more than four different timer settings (in which case you probably want to buy one of the other available timer banks with more than four timers anyway). One 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 its time-setting mode (i.e., when the timer is idle), and 2) when the timer has just finished counting down, the display says "END", and the alarm is going off. This is technically correct, but it's really only useful to attempt it under condition #2 as under condition #1 there's no audible or visual feedback to allow you to know what volume you've set the alarm to. Pressing the INCREASE and DECREASE buttons when the timer is simply idle does change the alarm volume, but without giving you any indication of what the alarm will sound like when it goes off. I discovered this by first trying to set the volume when the timer was idle and then running a test countdown; while I was pressing the DECREASE button it had sounded to me like I'd just maybe dropped the alarm volume one notch and it wouldn't go any lower than that, but then when the timer had counted down I discovered I had in fact, by pressing the DECREASE button several times, set the alarm to silent. I couldn't tell this because the timer beeped the same way every time I pressed the DECREASE button. It was only under condition #2 - when the timer had counted down and the display said "END" - that pressing the INCREASE and DECREASE buttons gave me audible feedback as to the actual alarm volume setting. We bake commercially in a home kitchen (you can do that under very specific conditions in New York State) using one residential conventional oven and one countertop commercial convection oven, and with that equipment we need to turn the trays at a certain point in the baking process in order to get even results. I hoped this timer's reminder function would facilitate that, but it works differently than would be ideal for us: when the reminder alarm goes off, the timer just keeps going in the background - it doesn't pause or stop because the reminder alarm's gone off (indeed, if there is any way to pause a running timer with this device, I haven't found it; pressing the timer's start/stop button while it's running simply stops it and resets it to its initial setting). So for any of the four timers, the overall time you've set is the overall time you get, regardless of whether you've also set a reminder alarm. For this reason, we'll use two timers for each batch: timers #1 and #3 are set to the amount of time we bake before we turn the trays, and #2 and #4 are set to the amount of time we bake after we turn them. Timers #1 and #2 are for oven #1, and timers #3 and #4 for oven #2. Once the timers are set up, starting and stopping them is as easy as pressing the number button to the right of the timer. If there's any reason we don't love this thing in actual practice I'll come back and update my review, but I don't foresee that.

Great for restaurant use. Nice and loud and lasts long enough for the money. This is our second one, first one lasted about 2 years. The buttons wear down sort of quick but it's not expensive so not a big deal. I would recommend.

This allows me to run 5 timers in my kitchen at the same time! LED readouts can be seen from across the room and timer can be heard in the next room if you step out for a break. I have mine free standing on a shelf but it comes with easy mount brackets. This is a great value in a busy kitchen. It also remembers the time you used so you don’t have to keep resetting frequently used times.

My need for a multi-display timer led me to this product. I did not buy it for cooking, the reason I decided to give it a try, is that it fulfilled my need to keep track of time for my online game. I needed a timer that could be set to from 0-99 hours and 0-99 minutes. Until I learned how to use it, the alarm was deafening, and setting the timer was difficult for "me", after using it for a day it became easy to use. The display is large enough to see from across a room, the buttons are large enough for easy use. Remember this is a restaurant time so it is not small but usable for my computer desk. So I decided to give it a four-star rating for the stated reasons above.

This the grey one. The photos in Amazon make it seem likes it black and white, but the Grey one is actually a light grey. I use it for baking. Its great. Easy to figure out.

Use on food truck all the time with no issues. Great product and would buy again.

THIS SHOULD WORK FINE FOR OUR NEED LOUD , NICE COLOR. GOOD SIZE I THINK THE VALUE IS GOOD TOO

Works as advertised! Thanks Guys!

An excellent and useful device. I strongly recommend it. Accurate times. I recommend buying it for kitchen owners

Excelente si quieres controlar la calidad de los procesos, producto con materiles de primera calidad, tengo semanas ya usandolo y definitivamente mejoro la calidad del trabajo en la cocina

Super Timer, der läiuft jeden Tag ohne probleme.

Bon produit fonctionne super bien très content de cette achat

Valido