Meaty Times is a free, simple cooking assistant for roasting joints of meat. Tell it what you are cooking, how much it weighs, and how you like it done — and it gives you clear oven temperatures, cooking times, resting guidance, and optional serve-at scheduling so your roast is ready when you want to eat.
Why use Meaty Times?
- No accounts — open the calculator and get answers straight away.
- Clear instructions — step-by-step temperatures, phased cooking where needed, resting time, and total preparation time in one view.
- Food-safe defaults — poultry, pork, and gammon use fully-cooked guidance; you are not asked to pick an unsafe doneness.
- Plan around your meal — optional backwards scheduling from a target serving time.
- Works on any device — designed for phones, tablets, and desktops.
What you can do
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Roast calculator | Select meat type, enter weight in kilograms, choose doneness where it applies, and calculate instructions. |
| Two-phase roasting | For beef and lamb, get a high initial temperature then a reduce-to step when the recipe calls for it. |
| Resting time | Every result includes how long to rest the joint before carving. |
| Serve at planner | After calculating, enter when you want to serve and see clock times for when to start, change temperature, remove from the oven, and begin resting. |
Supported meats in the current release: beef, lamb, pork, chicken, and gammon. Measurements use kilograms and degrees Celsius.
See it in action
Enter your roast details and tap Calculate.
Results show each cooking phase, total cooking time, resting time, and total preparation time.
Optional Serve at planning works backwards from your target meal time.
Get started
- Read the Help guide for a walkthrough of every field and result.
- Need to report a problem or suggest an improvement? Visit Support.
- Questions about data and privacy? See the Privacy statement.
Meaty Times is open source. Source code, issue tracker, and contribution guidelines are on GitHub.