Say I want to make a soup out of dry ingredients from a package. The instructions on the package tell me to add the ingredients to boiling water then cook for exactly 12 minutes. The most comfortable way to do that is to preset the chrono by letting it run 12 minutes then stopping it to store the time. Now press the pusher at 10 to switch to rattrap mode. Press the pusher at 4 to reset the gold minutes hand to zero. The DS is now primed. You can work and wait until you get hungry. Water is boiling? Add the powder and push the starter at 2 Under the poor lighting in my kitchen I can easily tell when the gold minute hand overlaps the dark minute hand without having to think again about numbers. Done!
With the Triple Split I will be able to progress to roasts in the oven! And yes, my dear Count, I am doing my best to get one....