Nice and simple
I was looking for a simple timer app for cooking Xmas dinner and this fits the bill. Only thing I’d change is to be able to reorder the steps for individual food items.
Response from developer
You can reorder the steps for an item by tapping the Edit button then dragging the steps up and down.
Very good, little apps
Just wish I could copy the cooking times from my iPhone to my iPad
Can’t adjust after timer starts
Wish it would let me check off the steps that finished and adjust to while finish time
Too noisy
Can’t understand there is no facility to customise the alarm sound.
A simple option to adjust the volume or turn it off entirely would encourage me to use the app - I just find the current alarm too annoying to use the app, sorry.
A simple option to adjust the volume or turn it off entirely would encourage me to use the app - I just find the current alarm too annoying to use the app, sorry.
Extremely useful
This app has one job, and does it perfectly. It makes juggling different parts of recipes so easy. The ability to put together a one-off meal is one I use all the time. The only thing I long for is the the ability to store the recipe data on iCloud – I’d like to be able to use the app on my iPad, because my eyesight isn’t what it was, but I don’t want to type it all in again. That small quibble aside, it’s just great.
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Excellent timer
Very useful timer and easy to set up once you’ve had a bit of practice. The user guides are very well written and comprehensive.
I find the ability to set the required ready time is most useful and this sets it apart from other timers I’ve tested
Thanks
I find the ability to set the required ready time is most useful and this sets it apart from other timers I’ve tested
Thanks
Great idea, needs a few tweaks
I use this for Christmas dinner, but it would be great if it let me do four things. 1/ Add a bit more time to an item when the timer is running but the cook hasn’t begun. 2/show the temperatures of all the items in a menu to see if there’s some way to share two meals in the same oven by altering times or shelves. Perhaps by colouring each item by temperature? Or just showing the temp and convection mode for each dish. 3/export to iCal the entire cook to remind you to visit the app 4/sync the meals to my iPads to free up the phone
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Great app but needs pause
Great app, just what I want but it needs a pause function. When something is not quite ready you want to put it back in for another 20mins…. How to do that without pause?
Response from developer
The main feature of the app is to schedule the start time of steps so that all the items in your meal finish together. Pausing the timer would completely break that feature. Either all steps currently in progress would be extended by the length of the pause, or extending just one step would cause that item to finish later than all the others.
Easy Cooking App
The app is not easy to use. I was unable to determine how to properly enter menu items and times to plan my meal. I do not recommend this app.
Response from developer
I'm sorry to hear you found the app difficult to use. There is a comprehensive user guide and tutorial available from https://hacknicity.com/easycookingtimer/ which explains how the app works.
Useful but...
Would be 5* if there was the option to pause it. Sometimes I need a minute to do a step but there’s no way to tell the app to pause the timer and then unpause when I’ve done it!
Fantastic App!
Well worth the money, makes cooking so much easier
Changed my life in the kitchen
I used to cook a lot until my wife took over - I wasn’t bad, just optimal division of labour. I tend to follow recipes (with a little flair). The hardest thing is timing everything to arrive at the destination at the same time. This app has really nailed it - simple to set-up and then press GO. You can track what’s done, what’s in process, and what’s coming up. With little timer clocks and notifications of course. I’m no longer intimidated undertaking a complex meal and can close the cookbooks very early and let the app do the rest (more or less). Well done!
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Great app
No more burning the chicken while the potatoes finish cooking.This great little app takes all the guesswork out of preparing everything from a simple single pot recipe to a multiple course meal. And what really “put the icing on the cake“ is the prompt and thorough support the developer provides. As someone who loves to entertain, this has made my life so much easier and cooking so much more enjoyable.
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A bunch of clutter
Luckily a couple bucks, but a lot of trouble and steps you can’t sort or move in edit menus buried in sub menus and timers that look like steps and vice versa. You become more concerned with planning and organizing your menu than just getting the cooking going or making a paper list. For me, it had a learning curve and didn’t work for my purposes. Maybe that’s just not how I work in the kitchen. Will delete so it’s not another timer app weighing down my screen space.
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Great app for timing meals!
Does everything it says it does and more. I have just two recommendations for improvements:
- Share between devices and/or exporting feature. I’ve created a lot of meals that I would like to send to my wife.
- Identifying a step as active or inactive time. For example, if I put something in the oven for :20, I can complete steps for other items while it’s cooking. This will then give a more accurate completion time for the entire meal.
Those two items would easily make this a five star app for me.
- Share between devices and/or exporting feature. I’ve created a lot of meals that I would like to send to my wife.
- Identifying a step as active or inactive time. For example, if I put something in the oven for :20, I can complete steps for other items while it’s cooking. This will then give a more accurate completion time for the entire meal.
Those two items would easily make this a five star app for me.
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Not useful for me
This is a competent interface and programming style but I found it ultimately of little use. The program schedules a meal so that all your dishes are ready at the same time. I like this concept but it is inadequately supported.
You can plan a meal by typing in all your dishes but there is no library of cooking times and you cannot move your dishes to new meals. As presented, every meal begins with new typing or awkward joining incomplete meals. Because you can’t sort or manage dishes your typed detail is pointless. There is little reason to not use simple event timer.
The programmer was very responsive and polite. I hope the app will extend with buyer feedback. This is meant to be honest and not harsh.
You can plan a meal by typing in all your dishes but there is no library of cooking times and you cannot move your dishes to new meals. As presented, every meal begins with new typing or awkward joining incomplete meals. Because you can’t sort or manage dishes your typed detail is pointless. There is little reason to not use simple event timer.
The programmer was very responsive and polite. I hope the app will extend with buyer feedback. This is meant to be honest and not harsh.
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Great app - have been waiting a long time for this
Such a simple idea but very well executed. Have been waiting a long time for a cooking timer that tracks multiple dishes to a single fixed finish time. Thanks for making this app.
Very nice
So far I'm impressed with the app. Loading it up with my usual items to cook and will give it a try for a couple wks. Will update my review if for some reason it starts performing badly but as of now it's perfect!
Great
Used this for a complicated Christmas dinner, it worked perfectly.
Excellent app
I've used this twice now to cook Christmas dinner for 10 people. It makes it stress free! Well done on the app!
