Cooking timers get used in exactly the conditions that break a naive countdown: you switch to a recipe in another tab, your phone locks while your hands are full, or the browser sits backgrounded for ten minutes while you're chopping vegetables. This timer is built specifically to stay accurate through all of that.

• 1 minute — toasting spices, resting a sauce off the heat.
• 5 minutes — a soft-boiled egg, blanching vegetables.
• 10 minutes — pasta, rice, most simmering sauces.
• 15 minutes — roasting smaller cuts, resting meat.
• 30 minutes — braising, longer roasts, dough resting.

Save whichever ones you use most as custom presets so they're one click away next time you're cooking the same thing.

Pick from five alarm sounds and preview each one with the Test button before you commit — worth doing once, ahead of time, rather than discovering mid-recipe that the default alarm is too quiet over a running exhaust fan.