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Prove, bake, cool

Baking timer

Twenty-five minutes to start — a common bake for cakes and cookies — and any length after that. Baking is the one kind of cooking where a minute genuinely changes the result.

Baking

25:00

Shortcuts: space start or pause · R reset · F fullscreen. The alarm rings even if you switch tabs.

In short

A baking timer covers every stage, not just the bake: bulk prove of 1 to 2 hours, shaped prove of 30 to 60 minutes, the bake itself, then 10 minutes cooling in the tin. This page opens at 25 minutes, a common cake and cookie bake.

Default
25 minutes
Cookies
8 to 12 minutes
Cupcakes and muffins
18 to 22 minutes
Sponge cake
25 to 35 minutes
Loaf of bread
30 to 45 minutes
Cooling in the tin
10 minutes

Time every stage, not just the bake

The bake is the stage people remember to time. The ones that quietly ruin things are the others: an under-proved loaf, a batter that sat while you found the tin, a cake turned out of the tin too early and left in pieces.

StageTypical time
First prove (bulk)1–2 hours, or overnight cold
Second prove (shaped)30–60 minutes
Cookies8–12 minutes
Cupcakes and muffins18–22 minutes
Sponge cake25–35 minutes
Loaf of bread30–45 minutes
Cooling in the tin10 minutes, then out onto a rack

Check early, not on the dot

Ovens lie. A domestic oven can run twenty degrees off its dial, and the temperature at the back is rarely the temperature at the front. Set the timer for the shortest time in the recipe range, check then, and add time if needed with the +1 minute button — much easier than rescuing something that has gone five minutes too far.

Long proves

For anything over an hour, use the online timer and type the minutes straight in — 90, 120, 180 all work, and the display switches to hours automatically. Keep the tab open and glance at the tab title for the countdown.

Questions about the baking timer

Should I trust the recipe time or the oven?

Neither on its own. Use the recipe time as a first check, and judge by the actual signs — colour, spring, a skewer coming out clean, an internal temperature of around 96°C for a lean loaf.

Can I run two bakes at once?

Open the page in a second tab. Each tab counts down independently and shows its remaining time in the tab title.

Does the countdown drift if I leave it in the background?

No. Browsers deliberately slow down background tabs to save battery, which makes naive timers lose minutes over an hour. This one compares against the system clock on every update, so what you get at the end is the length you asked for.

Will it stay free?

There is no paid tier to upgrade to and nothing gated behind an account, so there is nothing to start charging for.