YOOYIST 4-Channel Commercial Kitchen Timer

Very nice timer, perfect for a busy commercial kitchen. Bright easy to read LED digits and a loud audible beep. Highly recommended

Works EXCELLENT and easy to read and hear!

* * * 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.

Pros: loud enough so that you can hear it over the noise of the hood. Very simple to use. Nice size too, kind of big but honestly it's perfect for a busy kitchen. Cons: only that the beeper sounds just like a smoke detector lol

Item as described, accurate time. Great item! I love it!

Easy use and loud enough

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.

It works just as advertised. The basic functions are obvious without the manual. The other features are well covered in the manual. I fail to understand the negative reviews about the instructions, what more do they want? One minor issue I wish the unit was weighted more, on the counter it slides around whenever I use any of it's functions. Only time will tell but it appears that it will last for some time. A suggestion, when not in use, shut it off and unplug.