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Polder has been offering everyday products with extraordinary design since its launch. The company was established in 1976, delivering better quality European-styled housewares to the U.S. market. Throughout the years, Polder has built an eclectic collection of core home categories, including kitchen timers and thermometers, laundry and ironing products, kitchen scales, and a variety of other storage solutions. Polder products are tested and certified for their consistent high quality by independent standards labs. This timer is a perfect example of the high standard product.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
first prize for poor design,
By pepperminty (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Polder 605 Big Screen Timer, Gray (Kitchen)
If you had set out to create a poorly designed kitchen timer, the Polder 605 Big Screen Timer would certainly make you happy on several fronts. Made out of flimsy plastic with a large display screen and simple bold black buttons, the sleek visuals of the Polder have their initial appeal. Putting it into use you realize quickly what a perverse genius designed this device. The alarm makes a high-pitched noise that is sure to put your entire household on edge. The thing is so top-heavy that if you attach it to your refrigerator via the magnet the slightest jolt will send the unit dangling upside down like a bat. In case you do manage to perch the thing upright just so, the upside-down wedge shape of the case makes it hard to read the display at anything much below eye-level.
When you go to turn it off it immediately starts counting back up again, as in a stopwatch, without you asking it to, so you must press the start/stop button two times if you really want it to stop, and then press both time buttons to zero it. As noted in another review, you cannot set it for less than a minute so the seconds are a mystery, unless it's in stopwatch mode, in which case the seconds are displayed. On the upside, unlike any other timer I have used before, if you have it set for an hour or more it helpfully beeps at ten and five minutes before zero. And the screen is nice and big, as advertised. I suppose if you are planning to set it on your counter top instead of using the magnet, and didn't mind its screechiness and other quirks, you might get some use out of this unassuming unit. In our home it earns its one extra star by providing some comic relief after the holidays.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Unacceptable,
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This review is from: Polder 605 Big Screen Timer, Gray (Kitchen)
This product is unacceptable. It has no clear button and no display of the seconds during countdown. Thus, you don't know if you have 10 seconds till the end or 50. Also, since there is no seconds display, you cannot time anything less than a minute. You can only begin timing in minute increments. Honestly, for household use, this product is worthless. If you really need a timer, look elsewhere!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Poorly designed, poorly made,
By Trevor T. (Chamblee, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Polder 605 Big Screen Timer, Gray (Kitchen)
Other reviewers have done a good job so I'll keep it short.
Likes - Large easily read digits. Loud beep that you can hear from 3 rooms away. It's a pity none of the timers on the market have a High and Low volume switch to satisfy more users. Dislikes - Poorly angled when you mount it on your fridge with the magnetic back. The magnet is glued to a hinged stand for placing vertically on a counter top. The hinge is a joke - it fits very poorly and falls off after a couple of rotations. To reset the digits to zero, you have to press the HRS and MIN buttons simultaneously . Don't waste your money on this one.
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