About this timer
Cooking is where a timer earns its place. An egg changes from soft to hard in a couple of minutes, pasta turns from chalky to mushy quickly, and rice needs a quiet stretch with the lid on. The presets here cover the common starting points: six minutes for a soft-boiled egg, eight for a medium yolk, ten for hard-boiled, three for tea, nine for dried pasta, fifteen for rice and five for oats.
Treat them as starting points rather than rules, because pan thickness, altitude and the temperature of your ingredients all move the result. Press a preset and the countdown begins from that duration; add or remove a minute while it runs if the pan tells you something different. The alarm is deliberately loud enough to hear from the next room, and it can also send a notification.
You can pause for a stir, reset for a second batch, or open the multiple-timer page and run the pasta and the sauce side by side. Nothing is stored on a server, so the page never knows what you are cooking.
How an online timer works here
Every tool follows the same rules: the count is computed from your device clock, the page works without an account, and nothing is sent to a server.
- Pick a preset or enter your own duration. The timer starts in an idle state, so nothing is running until you press start.
- Press start. Remaining time is calculated from an absolute end instant, which keeps the count honest in a background tab or after the device wakes.
- Pause, resume, add a minute or reset whenever plans change. The alarm plays a sound and can send a browser notification if you allow it.
Private by default
Timers, settings and names are stored only in this browser. There is no account, no sync and no server-side history. Clearing site data removes them, and the export tools in other Frixma apps follow the same local-first rule.