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Ten minutes covers the middle of most recipes: rice at a simmer, steaming vegetables, a sauce reducing. Start it as the pan goes on; each ring is 30 seconds, so a glance from across the kitchen tells you how close the dish is.
Ten minutes is the middle of most recipes: rice at a covered simmer, green vegetables in the steamer, a tomato sauce reducing, chicken thighs on the second side. This page counts it with a ring every 30 seconds, silent while it runs, and a double chime that reaches the next room. Start it as the pan goes on the heat rather than when you remember, and use fullscreen if the screen sits across the kitchen.
The real use of a browser timer in a kitchen is that you can have several. A weeknight plate of salmon, rice, and broccoli, timed so everything lands together:
Each dial runs and chimes on its own, so a glance at the row tells you what is closest to done.
| Job | Time |
|---|---|
| White rice, covered, low heat | 10 minutes, then rest 5 |
| Dried pasta, most shapes | 9 to 11 minutes, check the packet |
| Steamed broccoli or green beans | 4 to 5 minutes |
| Hard-boiled eggs | 8 to 10 minutes |
| Pancakes, first side | 2 minutes, then 1 |
| Chicken thighs in a pan, per side | 6 to 7 minutes |
| Resting a roast | 15 to 20 minutes |
Name the timers if you run more than two: a cycle with a single block called "rice" or "eggs" tells you which chime went. Set volume before the extractor fan goes on. If the recipe gives a range, set the low end and check; you can always add a minute, and a second timer is one tap. For anything that needs turning halfway, a Cycle of two blocks, say 6 minutes and 6 minutes, chimes the flip and the finish.
Starting the clock before the water boils or the oven is at temperature. Trusting the packet for pasta without tasting at the low end. Walking out of earshot with the sound down. And relying on memory for the third thing on the stove; that is the one that burns. Longer projects, from a 45 minute roast to an overnight brine, are covered in cooking and kitchen timing.
Pick another duration from the timers below, or set an exact one on any dial. The 6, 7, and 8 minute pages cover eggs, and 3 minutes suits tea.
Yes. Open a timer for each dish and every dial runs and chimes on its own.
Yes. It is silent while it runs, then ends on a clear double chime, even from a background tab.
Add it as a browser source in OBS; the background stays transparent. Change t for any length.
A radial timer is a free online countdown timer you set in one click: pick a length, press Start, and an alarm sounds at zero. Run several timers at once, take one fullscreen, or pop one out picture-in-picture to float over other apps. Every timer keeps counting in a background tab, and any timer exports as a video. No download, no sign-up.
Its dial draws the countdown as 20 concentric rings, one for each twentieth of the duration. Rings empty one by one, outermost first, so a glance shows how far along you are without reading a digit.
Yes. The countdown follows the clock, so it stays on time while you work in another tab and still chimes at zero. The picture-in-picture popout keeps a small dial in view the whole way.
Yes. Any timer exports as an MP4 or a transparent WebM of the whole countdown, up to 4K and 60 fps, in 16:9, vertical, or square.
Yes. In OBS, add a browser source pointing at radialtimers.com/overlay?t=25m and a transparent dial counts down over your scene. Change t for any length, like 90s or 3h.
As many as you need. Each timer gets its own dial and runs on its own, which suits interval workouts, several dishes on the stove, or a room of activity stations.