Polder TMR-897 See-Thru, Terribly complicated to use
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Terribly complicated to use
This clock should be nominated to a prize for worst interface design. It is extremely unintuitive to use. For example, you would think the big black start/stop button could be used to start a timer. Not so. It can only be used to start all three timers simultaneously. When would you want to do this when you’re cooking? It is also extremely cumbersome and unintuitive to set the timers. Not what you need when you’re in a hectic cooking situation. Unfortunately, I have not yet found a good multiple cooking timer, even after spending a lot of time on amazon.com, so I’m keeping this for now.
Update (2/10/2012):
The featured review for this product, Polder TMR-897 See-Thru Triple Timer/Clock, Silver Kitchen, was written by A. Host-Madsen.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Tags: cooking timer, debate, debate timer, digital timer, kitchen, kitchen essentials, kitchen gadgets, kitchen timer, polder, stopwatch, timer, timers
Posted on: June 5, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (3)
A. Host-Madsen
May 8th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Terribly complicated to use
Rated 1 stars.
S. Eliason
May 29th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Nice timer
I use this timer mostly for when I judge high school debate rounds to time speeches and each debaters prep time. It works for that purpose quite well.
When I use ti for cooking it works perfectly as well.
My only complaint is that it’s user interface isn’t very intuitive. I had to fuss with it when I opened it to figure out how to reset and program it as the included directions are lackluster.
It is well-made and I’ve used it for several months without issue.
Tony in SF
June 4th, 2010 at 7:21 am
Looks nice, works okay, but the display is awful.
Okay it’s great that this little device has three countdown timers, it looks nice, and it’s LOUD - you’ll hear it from anywhere in the house when it goes off or any time you actually press a button to set it or start a timer. Once you figure out how this thing actually works (which is tricky), it’s fairly easy to set and use.
What really kills this thing for me is the display, which looks GREAT in the perfect-world photo on this product page. This thing has the same problem other “see-through LCD” devices I’ve owned in the past had: The display really sucks.
First, it’s designed to be looked down into, not from straight on. Look straight into it and you’ll see dark numbers on a dark background. Even if you get the angle right (about 45 degrees is best), the contrast is terrible so it’s hard to see the display unless you get a lot of light reflecting into it from behind the display. The only way I’ve gotten around this is to put it on a bright surface, or to bend a piece of paper at 90 degrees and set it down behind the device.
So my verdict: Looks nice, but it’s unintuitive to set and use, and the display is terrible. Unfortunately it’s going back.
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