Be a More Organized Cook with KitchenPad Timer | iPad.AppStorm

How often do you wish you had more than one timer in the kitchen? How many nights do you cook dinner with at least two pots on the fire and something roasting in the oven too? One-pot meals are fine, but most of the time cooking involves multi-tasking. It?s so frustrating to realize both the microwave and oven timers are occupied and scramble around the house for your phone or another clock while the rice burns and who knows how long the chicken has been roasting? If you?ve ever felt scrambled and unorganized while preparing a meal, KitchenPad Timer is here to help.

Being a good cook begins with keeping a clean, organized workspace. Professional chefs call this ?mis en place?, meaning ?everything in its place.? KitchenPad Timer isn?t just a remedial alarm clock ? it?s a sleek, thoughtfully designed app that provides a bird?s-eye-view of all your timers at once. Never burn the cookies again and always get everything on the table piping hot and perfectly cooked with this handy kitchen utility app.

Keep reading to learn more about how KitchenPad Timer can help you be a better cook.

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Getting Started

Launch the app and find everything you need displayed on one screen. The design is simple, yet clever and fun. To the left is an image of the stovetop, displaying five burners for you to use to represent your own kitchen. To the right you see the oven, with four boxes to set timers on. Tap an area on the cooking surfaces to bring up timer specifications, including time (hours, minutes, seconds), heat setting and alarm sound. You can start and pause each timer or clear the timer and start over. Label the timer to stay organized (for example: rice or pasta) by typing in the larger horizontal blank box up top.

View the stovetop to the right and the oven to the left. Tap an area on the cooking surface to set the timer.

The visual design of this app is especially useful for the home cook because rather than read information while stirring a pot and flipping the steaks, all you need to do is glance at the screen and you see your own workspace reflected in a picture. You can see which burners are in use and whether or not you?ve actually turned on the oven ? isn?t it the worst when you?re ready to pop in a roast and realize the oven is stone cold?

Set your timers and notice how the cooktop flame lights up and the stove glows bright orange. It?s easy to see everything that?s cooking at a glance without having to read detailed information.

Once a timer is set on the stove burner it lights a blue flame and turns the knob to your specified heat setting. Turn on the oven and it glows a warm orange color. This is where fun meets function in the KitchenPad Timer app. The practical design makes it easy to quickly get information at a glance while you?re busy managing multiple tasks.

Create a Habit of Being Organized

KitchenPad Timer doesn?t just keep time; it helps you create a habit of being organized in the kitchen by allowing you to save settings. When setting a timer, notice the two stars on the screen: one just to the right of the timer name and one on the bottom next to the red Clear Timer button. Tap the star on the bottom to save a timer to your favorites list. Access your favorites list by tapping the yellow star on the upper right corner.

Tap the yellow star to find a list of your favorite timer settings that you use over and over again for more efficient organization. Here I?ve got commonly cooked foods like rice, quinoa, pasta and lentils.

Having your favorites close to hand makes using the KitchenPad Timer app a pleasure rather than a pain. It also frees you from constantly consulting a recipe book for dishes you cook regularly but have trouble remembering how much time is needed (for example: white rice or saut?ed pork chops). Another great thing about the design of this app is that it categorizes your favorites depending on which cooking surface is used (oven or stovetop). Tapping on the favorites for the oven will not overload you with lists from all favorites. Other apps would not go to the trouble to give users this experience, and that?s much appreciated.

Customization

The best part of mobile apps is customizing to make them your own. KitchenPad Timer accomplishes this task in several ways: the visual display of cooktop surfaces, the ability to add timers to your favorites list and the selection of alert sounds to notify you when time is up. Choose from a selection of at least 15 alert sounds by tapping the music note button in the timer. The app includes a sound for every personality, from the techno Electro Alarm to the quirky Rooster to the attention-grabbing Engage alarm. The designers are even kind enough to remind you to ?Make sure and put your volume up!? so you won?t miss an alarm and burn the Bundt cake.

Personalize the app by tapping the blue music note to choose from a wide range of Alert Sounds or customizing temperature settings in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

Another way to customize the app is by applying temperature and cooking settings to each timer. It may seem unnecessary, but labeling favorited timers with temperature or Gas Mark settings will reduce your dependency on looking up the recipe when you cook the dish again in the future. It also helps if you?re cooking multiple dishes in the same oven and need to keep track of the oven temps. For example, you might be roasting a chicken at 425 degrees Fahrenheit along with a tray of potatoes. Once the chicken is done roasting and pulled out to rest, the potatoes can be finished off at a higher temperature, noted by the label on the timer.

Conclusion

The KitchenPad Timer app is an excellent tool for multi-tasking cooks and bakers. It?s got a sleek, modern design that?s fun to interact with while also being efficient for gathering information at a glance. The developers have implemented thoughtful touches, like the well-organized favorites lists and colorful visual cues. What would make this app even better is using the information that?s been gathered to help home cooks plan out meal preparation. For example: what to cook first and alerts for when to start cooking each dish. They?ve already got the information; they just need to add the functionality. At $1.99, KitchenPad Timer is well worth the money spent. This is an app you?ll use again and again ? and you?ll be a more successful, efficient cook as a result.

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