Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This piece of trash is an insult to the name Lux! Certainly, this is not the same Lux of old, the Lux that manufactured reliable clocks and timers for many, many years. I had a Lux timer similar to this one for too many years to count, made of superior materials, and it worked superbly. This timer, which I will no longer refer to as a Lux, is an obscene horror that stopped working after a few uses. Innumerable times my old Lux was dropped, banged, and caught in an open gas flame and it still performed perfectly. This cheaply made forgery would never withstand the kind of punishment involved in normal kitchen use. Of course, it stopped working after the time limit for returning it and I was stuck with the flimsy third-rate plastic junk and out a substantial investment of my hard earned money. I don't like giving my cash to anonymous foreign corporations that produce products under the title of trusted American brands of bygone days and turn out to be nothing more than stomach turning copies that do not function anything like the original of some 50 years ago. Basically, I feel I was robbed and held up under false pretences. If my original Lux hadn't finally been broken by a grandchild in a fit of temper, it would still be working as it did when I received it as a wedding present in 1948. It was a solid piece of "made in USA" engineering, design, and manufacture. My loss of that beloved cooking partner is only intensified by the purchase of such a fraudulent, overpriced pretender to the once honored name of Lux.