The easiest way to set a timer in watchOS 8 is to use Siri. You can activate Siri by raising your Watch to your face and speaking (assuming you have Raise to Speak enabled) or by tapping and holding the digital crown until the Siri icon appears. If you have “Hey, Siri” enabled, that will work too.

Simply tell Siri to “set a timer for ten minutes called oven” and a new timer with the label “Oven” will be started. You don’t have to give Siri a label to use, but with multiple timers running at the same time it’s highly recommended. You can now ask Siri again to “set a timer for 35 minutes called feed mittens” to have a “Feed mittens” timer added to your list.

If you aren’t too worried about labels you can set timers directly in the Timer app instead. Launch the app then tap on a pre-designated timer or use the Custom button to set your own. When you hit “Start” your timer will begin and appear at the top of the screen in the Timer app. You can now set other timers which will also appear in the list.

There’s no way of adding a label to your timers if you go this route (at least on older Watch models), so any countdowns you have set will be labeled as “35 min.” for a 35-minute timer, for example.

You can tap on the pause icon next to a timer to pause it, or swipe left to reveal the red “X” and tap on it to delete the timer altogether. If you tap on a timer it will take up the whole screen and you can use the digital crown to scroll through the full list of currently-running timers.