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You spent three days shopping, thawing, and prepping. Now it's the day of, and the roast, the potatoes, the vegetables, and the dessert all need to finish in the same thirty-minute window. One oven. Four hours. A serve time that does not move. The day-of sequence is the part that still needs a plan.
You bought everything on the list. You thawed the roast on schedule. You even prepped the Brussels sprouts last night. What still needs planning is the day-of sequence: when the roast goes in, when you pull it so it rests while the Yorkshire puddings rise, and when the potatoes go in while the roast is still using the top rack. The shopping list was the easy part.
The roast needs to rest before carving. That window is when the oven is finally yours. Ready Time slots potatoes and Yorkshire puddings into that gap, with gravy and vegetables on the stovetop alongside. You are not doing oven Tetris in your head. The math already happened when you set your serve time.
Yes. The payoff is that both of you see the resting window the same way. The roast coming out at 12:20 is when the potatoes go in. If only one of you knows that, the other is left guessing. Share the plan and it lands on their phone with its own alerts for each step. The gravy and the vegetables then run on the stovetop off the same clock.
Name the time you want to sit down, then subtract everything that has to happen first. In the plan above a 2:00 dinner means seasoning the roast at 8:30, the oven on at 8:50, and the roast in at 9:00. That is earlier than most people expect, and it is why the day tends to run late.
The roast holds the oven until midday. The potatoes, the Yorkshires, and the vegetables all live in the window after it comes out to rest. Change the serve time and every start above it moves on its own.
This page is one. Set the time you want to eat, put in your own cooking times, and the plan works backward to when each dish has to start. Most people build this in a spreadsheet on Christmas Eve, then have to redo the arithmetic when the roast goes in twenty minutes late or a guest turns up at four. Ready Time runs the same subtraction and then alerts you at each start time, so the plan is running the day instead of sitting on the counter unused.
Get a nudge at the right moment, while there's still time to act.
Each step gets its own alert, so you know what's next and how long you have.
“It has helped me tremendously to manage my timeblindness, and I tell people about it all the time.”Ready Time user, 2021
Save this routine in Ready Time and it tells you when to start each step.
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.