Not sure if I’m the only one doing SV who deals with this, but I always set my SV machine for quite a bit longer than I expect to do a cooking, just in case I cant get right to it, it will be ready whenever I am. The problem is, sometimes I’ll set it for 24 hrs… sometimes 40… sometimes 36 ? Then, the next day, it says, it has 6 hrs, and 23 minutes left, and I start trying to calculate how long it has already been going, and I’m like, “Wait… did I set it for 30 hrs this time ? … or was it 36 hrs” ? Urggg…
So here’s my solution
I just bought this cheap little digital timer clock ($7.99) on Amazon. So I can start it, right when I start the SV machine. Then it doesn’t matter how long I had it set for, as it counts forward, not reverse. I can see at a glance how long I’ve been cooking, with no reverse calculations needed
One note: In case any of you decide to get a timer, some of these only count to a maximum of 24 hrs. I made sure this one counted to 99 hrs