TimerPlanKitchen timer
Kitchen timers
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1 running in this tab. Each one rings on its own — the browser's own timer widget only ever holds one.
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Can I run more than one timer at once?
The TimerPlan kitchen timer holds as many countdowns as a meal needs in a single tab, each with its own name and its own alarm. That is the one thing a search engine’s built-in timer cannot do: it keeps exactly one countdown, so pasta and the oven mean two browser tabs, two alarms that sound the same, and no way to tell which one just went off.
Naming them is what makes the difference in practice. When the alarm sounds, the name is in the notification and in the tab title, so you know whether to drain something or open the oven door before you have crossed the kitchen.
Each timer keeps its own absolute finish time and its own scheduled tone, so they do not interfere with one another and none of them loses time while the tab is in the background or the phone is face-down on the counter.
Common timings, if you want somewhere to start:
| Item | Time | From |
|---|---|---|
| Soft-boiled egg | 3 min | Water already boiling |
| Jammy egg | 5 min | Water already boiling |
| Hard-boiled egg | 8–9 min | Water already boiling |
| Dried pasta | 8–12 min | Return to the boil |
| Rice, absorption | 12 min + 10 min rest | Lid on, heat off for the rest |
| Steeping black tea | 3–5 min | Water off the boil |
| Steeping green tea | 2–3 min | Water at about 80 °C |
Three of those overlap in a normal Tuesday dinner, which is the whole argument for this page. Start each one as it goes on, name it, and stop keeping the running order in your head.
For a single length with a bigger display, use the online timer; for a rhythm of work and rest, the pomodoro timer; for something that has to end at a set time rather than after a set length, the countdown timer. When the question is how long something took rather than how long is left, the stopwatch counts up.
Frequently asked questions
How many timers can run at the same time?
As many as you add. Each is an independent countdown with its own finish time and its own scheduled alarm, and they share one audio context, so twenty running at once costs no more than one. In practice a meal needs three or four; the limit you will meet first is how many rows fit comfortably on a phone screen, not anything in the page.
How do I know which timer went off?
By its name, in three places at once: the row turns and stays marked, the notification carries the name, and the tab title shows it. This is the practical argument for naming them as you go — two anonymous timers ringing the same tone two minutes apart is a worse problem than having no timer at all.
Is an egg timer the same thing?
It is one preset of this: three minutes for a soft yolk, five for jammy, eight to nine for hard, counted from the moment the egg goes into water that is already boiling. Doing all three at once is exactly the case this page exists for — start a five and an eight, take one egg out at each alarm, and the argument at breakfast is settled.
What happens to my timers if I reload the page?
They are gone. Nothing is written to your device, which is why this page needs no cookie banner of its own and no account, and the honest cost of that is a reload wiping the list. If you cook the same set of timings often, the durations you type stay in the address bar of the plain timer, so a bookmark can carry one of them.
Will it ring if my phone screen goes dark?
The page holds a screen wake lock while a timer is running, so the screen should not sleep on its own — that covers a phone left face-up on the worktop. If you lock the phone yourself, the browser suspends the tab and the sound waits until the screen comes back on. No web page can override a manual lock, and any that claims to is describing an app.
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Why one timer is never enough
Meals are parallel. Rice, a pan and something in the oven are three clocks that started at different moments and end at different moments — one countdown cannot hold that.
Names beat tones. A different sound for each timer is a memory test. A name in the notification is not.
The counter is the worst place for a phone. A screen that sleeps every thirty seconds is why people go back to shouting at a smart speaker; a wake lock is the entire fix.