Possible the best egg timer is from GraLab – or “not your usual kitchen timer”
Alton Brown once used a very large timer in his cooking show, Good Eats. I recognized it immediately from my high school time in the photography club and yearbook. Now, for those of you who can managed a dotted line between those two, take a bow. For the rest, here is why it is such a good cooking timer.
- Its big and easy to read.
- Its easy to set one big knob.
- Its good for 5 seconds and its good for 60 minutes and its good for everything in between.
- It can repeat a timing great for cookies.
- It hangs on a wall or sits on the counter.
- It has a buzzer and can trigger a light bulb for the hard of hearing or those playing Led Zeppelin (or the Stones) cranked to 11.
- On the used market it can be had for really cheap money.
and the winner is . drum roll please . the GraLab Model 300.
Do you have one? Do you know how loud the buzzer is?
(I just bought a vintage Gralab 165-S on Ebay, and it arrived today. It’s a great timer, but the buzzer is very loud.)
I have a model 168 (has minutes and seconds for 0 – 59:59). These changed a bit over the years. Mine looks just like the picture. The buzzer volume is adjustable by the knob in the lower right corner. Turned all the way up, it is loud; turned all the way down it is silent.