cooking timer

Meal preparation clock

A cooking timer is a device that counts down a set duration and signals when time has elapsed, used to prevent overcooking or burning food.

Kitchen timers may be mechanical (with a twist dial), digital, or built into ovens and smartphones: Set the cooking timer for twelve minutes.

Also called a kitchen timer.

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kitchen · kitchen gadget · oven · baking · meal prep · soft boiled · minutes · seconds · ding · tick · digital · hourglass · beep · reminder · egg · pomodoro · interval · sand

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measurement direction

cooking timerstopwatch

Interval timing device

lap timer · chronograph · running clock

temporal function

cooking timerstopwatch

Interval timing device

wall clock · wristwatch · time clock · clock · punch clock

Family

cooking, timer, cook, time, cooked, cooks, cooker, cookery, uncooked

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G