Kitchen timer for almost deaf guys

Have a cell phone? The clock program sets a timer and you can have it vibrate.

The battery goes dead in two days. And it is a bit complicated to set.

I thought of a really cheap tablet, but the battery thing again.

I have been buying Xrexs, but I can almost not hear them anymore and the stinkers break after a year. Had about five of them now.

Mine goes on the charger every night so it is never dead. Set it once or twice and it will be simple

I must set mine 50 times on cooking day

Work on your technique. I set mine for soft boiled eggs once a week or so. I judge most things by look, feel, or take a temperature.

Technique?

I may cook twenty times as many things on cooking day!

Think of the old Italian granies that would cook enough for to feed an aircraft carrier and then freeze for the week. My timers (usually to of them) get a lot of workout on cooking day!

Find a low frequency buzzer or tone maker and connect it parallel to the buzzer in the timer you already have. ?? This is my preferred idea.

Is your computer close enough? Lots of timer programs and you can choose any sound file as the output.

I still have my mothers clock/timer that is designed more appropriately than later ones, but since I don't cook, I don't have it plugged in. It broke once when she was alive but I found a matching Telechron motor for it, if you remember those. Mechanical, with an analaog clock and a front control to set it for up to iirc 50 minutes. And it buzzes so you could probably hear it fine.

I see it's hard to find a timer that one could power an add-on buzzer with. They are mostly purely mechanical or digigal.

Maybe search the web and ebay with words like retro, vintage, antique. Add the word electric, thought that didn't exclude wind up ones on one site. I did that and only a small percentage looked suitable, and I would give the link but each had something wrong with it. And also a recreation could have the same low-power output that a modern digital one has.

I knew it would be hard to get one like my mother's in the future. One reason I saved it, plus she liked it so much.

I know about hearing. Sometimes my alarm goes off in my bedroom, 30 feet from where I sit to talk on the phone. One or two times I didn't hear it all, (even after I walked half-way back to the bedroom) but my friend on the phone heard it fine, was really bothered by it. Yet at other times, I hear it just fine, the same alarm. I don't get it.

For cooking use lights. "Alexa, turn on lamp in 25 minutes"

Ask here: sci.electronics.design

Amazon has multi event timers for commercial kitchens.

Dean's post remins me, what about a small one you can carry in your pocket? Where is it now that you cannot hear it? I thought it was in the kitchen and you were in the living room, or garage. Or is it in your pocket?

Sitting on a kitchen counter. I can hear it, it is just a bit faint. I don't use the magnets as the are useless. I just use the stands

Usually next to the stove. I have two of them for different dishes.

I am usually five to ten feet away.

Everyone else can hear it across the house. They are very loud. It drives them nuts, especially when I am cooking pork chops and have to flip them every 2 minutes.

I found this one:

I searched for sport timer with sound. This thing popped up

Ah, no need for a timer. I've been cooking pork chops for 60 years and never used a timer. You have to learn to go by feel and after a flip or two check the temperature. Take them off at 135 and let them rest 5 to

If you do a breaded chop, same thing. Put the breading on a half hour ahead and leave them sit a half hour before cooking. Brown one side, then the other, then just wait for temperature.

When I make tea, I glance and the clock and steep it 4 to 8 minutes, it does not have to be that perfect. Rely on your skills for touch and looks instead of time and you will find it much easier to get the job done and perhaps, even better.

Yikes! Maybe a stripped down version. Thank you!

That is not all I am making at the same time. I have to be annoyed by the timers. I am busier than a one armed paper hanger! I burn bacon last week becasue I forget to set the timer. What a mess! This weeks was perfect. I cook 3 lbs at a time.

How do you keep the breading from burning on your chops? Do you use any egg in the breading? And have you noticed that they are more of less moist with breading?

My breading would be coconut or walnut flour. Wheat and corn foul are toxic to me (T2 Diabetic).

"darrow low pitch kitchen timer 520 hz hard of hearing"

Is he referring to the video as the timer?