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Cooking Timers
Pick the food and the timer is already set: the simmer, the flip, the rest, the steep.
How these timers are set
Each timer starts from the figure most packets, cookbooks and food-safety charts agree on, and every page shows the full range in a table so you can see where that number sits. Pasta and potatoes start at the early end of the range, because you can always cook for another minute and never for one less.
Timers that have more than one stage run them in order. The steak timer times the first side, tells you to flip, times the second side and then counts the rest. The rice timer simmers, then steams off the heat. The pour-over timer walks through the bloom and each pour.
A time is a guide, not a guarantee. Your stove, pan, oven and the food itself all move the answer, so every page says what to check when the alarm sounds: a bite of pasta, a thermometer in the turkey, a poke in the dough.
Questions people ask
Can I run several cooking timers at once?
Yes. The kitchen timer page runs any number of named timers side by side, one for each pan. You can also open a second scenario timer in another tab; each page keeps its own countdown.
Will the alarm still sound if my phone locks?
The timers keep the screen awake on browsers that support it, so the phone does not lock while one is running. If the screen does lock or the tab is closed, a web page cannot play sound; when you come back the timer shows the correct time left or how long ago it finished.
Where do the cooking times come from?
They are the usual published starting points: packet directions for pasta and rice, common kitchen guides for steak and baking, and the official roasting chart for turkey. Each page says what the time assumes and what changes it.