Free tool · Kitchen timer
A kitchen timer for more than one thing
The rice, the eggs and the oven, each with its own name and countdown. Free, in your browser, no app to install.
Set a timer
Quick timers
Your timers
Nothing on the clock
Run as many at once as you like — the pasta, the sauce and the garlic bread can each have their own.
How to use it
Give the timer a name, set the time and start it, or tap a preset. Start as many as you like: each has its own countdown, and you can pause one, add a minute, or start it again for the next batch. When a timer finishes it chimes and turns orange until you stop it.
Common kitchen timings
Starting points. Your hob, pan and ingredients will vary, so check early.
Soft-boiled egg
6–6½ min
Large egg, lowered into boiling water from the fridge
Jammy egg
7 min
Set white, sticky yolk
Hard-boiled egg
10 min
Then straight into cold water
Dried pasta
8–12 min
Check the packet; taste a minute early
Fresh pasta
2–3 min
It's done soon after it floats
White rice (absorption)
12 min + 10 rest
Lid on throughout
Green beans (blanch)
2–3 min
Then into iced water
Rest a steak
5 min
About half its cooking time
Rest a roast chicken
15–20 min
Loosely covered with foil
Bread dough, first proof
1–2 hr
Until doubled; slower in a cool kitchen
Why name your timers
A single beeping timer tells you something is ready. When three things are on the go, the useful question is which one. Naming each timer, and keeping them side by side, is how cook mode in Guided Kitchen works: "simmer for 20 minutes" in the method becomes a named timer you start with a tap, so you can stay on the step you're on.
Resting time counts too. Meat keeps cooking after it leaves the heat, and dough needs its proof; both are easier to respect with a timer that says what it's for.
Questions
Will the timer keep going if I close the tab?
It keeps counting: timers are saved in your browser, so reopening the page picks up where they are. It can only ring while the page is open, though, so keep the tab open for the alarm.
Can I get an alert when I'm in another tab?
Yes. Tap "Notify me when a timer ends" and allow notifications, and you'll get one when a timer finishes while you're elsewhere. The page title also shows the next countdown.
How many timers can I run at once?
As many as you need. Name each one ("Rice", "Eggs") so you know which is which when it goes off.