# Extending past 99.5 mins

**URL:** <https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/extending-past-99-5-mins/146>\
**Category:** Anova Support\
**Created:** [November 27, 2014, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/extending-past-99-5-mins/146 "2014-11-27T12:32:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jroosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jroosa](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/jroosa)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/extending-past-99-5-mins/146/1 "2014-11-27T12:32:57Z")

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How do I set unit for 36 hrs and walk away? The max time is 99-mins. Can I toggle somewhere to hours instead of mins.?

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**Author:** ![aarthur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@aarthur](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/aarthur)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/extending-past-99-5-mins/146/2 "2014-11-27T12:45:00Z")

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That’s actually 99 hours, not 99 minutes. Each increment of the timer is 5 minutes.

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**Author:** ![wedelmayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@wedelmayer](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/wedelmayer)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/extending-past-99-5-mins/146/3 "2016-08-19T21:57:06Z")

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Well, something is goofy about how the timer works. I just got mine, set it up, put in some chicken. Use only the app to set the temp and time. I did get a notification when the water was ready. Had my timer set for “2:0” which you’d figure is 2 hours. Right? Wrong.  
Checked back about half an hour later, the cooker was off, temp was down to 147, and the time had expired. So… that’s stupid.

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**Author:** ![schaufuss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/schaufuss/32/522_2.png) [@schaufuss](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/schaufuss)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/extending-past-99-5-mins/146/4 "2016-08-22T12:03:55Z")

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The last time I used the timer, it did not turn off the cooker, it just made it beep, I didn’t even get a notification (they’ve never worked for me with the Wifi model).

  

But in the cooks I did this weekend, the cooker would turn itself of for no apparent reason - even though I had not even set a timer!!! - so maybe that’s what happened to you - not that you set the wrong time.

  

I suspect it’s Anova’s servers that are acting up again, which is a big problem IMO - it’s fine to have a connected cooker, but if that means it’s susceptible to server problems they have built a very bad infrastructure. The cook should NEVER be influenced if there are server problems - it most it should not be possible to change the cooker via WIFI - but it should NEVER CHANGE anything on your device without you knowing it.

  

I’m hoping someone from Anova sheds some light in this, here or in the thread I started:

  

[http://community.anovaculinary.com/discussion/6587/anova-wifi-keeps-stopping](http://community.anovaculinary.com/discussion/6587/anova-wifi-keeps-stopping)