I found a physical kitchen timer most helpful. It’s really quick to set it and I can chop veggies or wash the dishes in the meantime, without having to check the clock all the time.
You can also get one with a magnetic base and stick it to the fridge.
If you don’t get the magnet variety, there’s almost zero risk of failure. Even the magnet variety is only going to stop being magnetic (if it falls off or the magnetism wears out).
I have a mechanical egg timer I’ve had for probably 35 years (mom got it when I was a kid and I inherited it). Super basic. Only way I expect it to fail is if I drop it, because the plastic is almost certainly brittle by now.
I use the timer in the clock app on the phone. But also, I have a dozen preprogrammed timers that I can start from a shortcut on the home screen, and two timers in the swipe-down menu that are accessible even with the phone being locked. These are all implemented with the Automate app (for Android) — which, for better or worse, requires a bit of programming chops, even though the ‘coding’ is visual instead of textual.
Buying a smartwatch changed my life, cause now I know if I’m going to forget something, I can immediately set a timer on it. Which, yes I could have done with just my phone, but the phone is in my pocket and thus doesn’t exist.
I set a timer with my old Casio digital watch which cost less than $10 and runs for >2 years on the charge of a single button cell and whose strap I replaced with a cloth+velcro strap made by a neighbourhood tailor, who did it for ~ $1.
I have a whiteboard on the fridge and I’ll write “pasta 1329” or something.
I found a physical kitchen timer most helpful. It’s really quick to set it and I can chop veggies or wash the dishes in the meantime, without having to check the clock all the time.
You can also get one with a magnetic base and stick it to the fridge.
Yep. Grab it, spin it, set it back down–takes literally one second. I don’t need microsecond precision for pasta.
If you don’t get the magnet variety, there’s almost zero risk of failure. Even the magnet variety is only going to stop being magnetic (if it falls off or the magnetism wears out).
I have a mechanical egg timer I’ve had for probably 35 years (mom got it when I was a kid and I inherited it). Super basic. Only way I expect it to fail is if I drop it, because the plastic is almost certainly brittle by now.
They are freakin wonderful little things.
I use the timer in the clock app on the phone. But also, I have a dozen preprogrammed timers that I can start from a shortcut on the home screen, and two timers in the swipe-down menu that are accessible even with the phone being locked. These are all implemented with the Automate app (for Android) — which, for better or worse, requires a bit of programming chops, even though the ‘coding’ is visual instead of textual.
Buying a smartwatch changed my life, cause now I know if I’m going to forget something, I can immediately set a timer on it. Which, yes I could have done with just my phone, but the phone is in my pocket and thus doesn’t exist.
I just keep forgetting to set the timer on my watch.
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I set a timer with my old Casio digital watch which cost less than $10 and runs for >2 years on the charge of a single button cell and whose strap I replaced with a cloth+velcro strap made by a neighbourhood tailor, who did it for ~ $1.
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Yes, I’m flexing. You could tell?
Yeah, that works too
I just stir it regularly and eyeball when it’s presumably done.