The week ends at the stove

Most meal planners stop when you leave the shop. The part that actually happens every evening is the part after that.

Start from today, not from a search

Open the plan, open today, and the meal you already decided on is there with a way through to it. You are not searching a library at six in the evening for the thing you chose on Sunday.

The recipe, at the servings you are cooking

Set the servings beside the ingredients and every amount follows, so cooking a two-person recipe for six shows what six needs. Round to kitchen numbers turns 33.3 ml into 35 ml and 1040 g into 1000 g, and only touches the amounts scaling produced. A meal on the plan keeps its own servings and its shopping lines follow them, and Send to Telegram sends the recipe as the page shows it.

One step at a time

Start cooking turns the recipe into its steps, with the current one large enough to read from across the kitchen. Move with Next step, a tap or the arrow keys, and cross off each ingredient as it goes in. The screen stays on while you cook where the browser allows it, and a reload returns to the same step.

A timer on the same page

Countdown and stopwatch, side by side, with chips that add thirty seconds, a minute or five. It starts at five minutes and nothing seeds it from the recipe, because what gets timed is a step and a step is rarely the whole cook. The alarm can be muted, and leaving the recipe ends the timer.