Lily's Home 3-in-1 Perfect Tea Timer, Includes 3, 4, and 5 Minute Sand Hourglass Timers, Use for Making Tea or Keeping Time Around The Kitchen, Brushed Stainless Steel Frame (3.75" Tall)

The media could not be loaded. This timer is so fun! It's adorable on the shelf and it takes the guess work out of how long to steep! I was setting the timer on the microwave but this is just so much easier, not to mention, it's just cute and fun to use!

Excellent for my daily tea needs

Love this product. Guarantees perfect tea regardless of type

I drink a lot of tea and I use my microwave timer, as it's the most convenient one I have in the house. That incessant beep beep beep is pretty annoying though, if I'm across the house when it goes off, but I learned to live with it. Recently we went to Scotland and had cream tea in an adorable little tea shop, and they brought one of these to the table. I immediately ordered one and am so happy that I did. It makes my cuppa tea even more enjoyable.

This is a really good thing to have in one's kitchen for timing things for 3, 4, or 5 minutes. We use it in brewing our loose leaf teas. The quality is very high. It's a wonderful timer. Very glad I found it and bought it.

The little sand timers needed to be pushed into place but the times were very accurate.

Llego muy rapido, bien envuelto, y esta muy bien hecho!!!

The good. I like two things: (a) the construction -- stainless steel plates with connecting rods covered with rubber pads, holding the 3 hourglasses together firmly, and (b) colored sand -- green, red, and white -- a nice touch to help the user remember which timer is 3, 4, and 5 minutes, though I wish the white sand was a dark color to make it much easier to see when it finishes running through. A third nice thing is true of all hourglass timers, namely, you can flip them from either end to run the sand back the other way, alternating between what we could call Side A and Side B.The bad. Having spent my career as an engineer, I follow the aphorism "Trust but verify". I trusted the 3 hourglass timers' sands would correspond to 3, 4, and 5 minutes respsectively, as advertised. But when I watched the sands perform against a digital electronic timer, the verification process failed. Miserably, in my opinion. The initial results were so bad that I reran the test about a dozen times to ensure I wasn't going crazy.Running the sand from (arbitrarily chosen) Side A gives the M:SS (minutes and seconds) results of 2:57, 3:55, and 4:54, error rates of 1.7%, 2.1%, and 2.0% respectively for what should be 3:00, 4:00, and 5:00 minutes and zero seconds each. One would think any error over, say, 0.5% would be caught by quality control and be cause for rejection. But it gets worse. Running the sand from Side B gives the even more anomalous results of 3:04, 4:16, and 4:54, error rates of 2.2%, 6.7%, and 2.0% for putative 3-, 4-, and 5-minute times. Only the 5-minute time was consistent in its error rate. I have no idea how the 3- and 4-minute timers had differences of 7 and 21 seconds respectively between running Side A and then Side B. It was so bizarre I spent a lot of time rerunning the timing test just to show the phenomenon was consistent between Side A and Side B. The sand is running through the same orifice, just in the opposite direction, so how can it be so disparate?The product does not perform as advertised, meaning I did not get what I paid for -- I got really good form but really bad function. If I was an astronaut, I would not want the engineers who designed the "Pefect" Tea Timer building my rocket ship. I am returning the product for a refund.