Recipes tell you how to cook one dish. Dinner is four of them, in one kitchen, with one oven and one pair of hands. Mise is the missing part: tell it what you are making and what time you want to eat, and it works out when to start — and what to do, in what order, right through to serving.
“The chicken was perfect. The potatoes were forty minutes late.”
“I was making gravy and carving at the same time, on my own.”
“Everything was cooked. Nothing was hot together.”
Everything below happens in your browser, on your own clock. Mise never asks who you are, where you are or what time zone you are in.
Every dish on its own lane, hands-on work solid and hands-free time hatched, all of it ending at the minute you want to eat.
The whole meal as one list, minute by minute, in the order you actually do it. This is the bit people print and stick to a cupboard door.
Ingredients combined across every dish and scaled to the number you're feeding, so "2 onions" and "1 onion" become one line. Tap to check things off.
Full screen, high contrast, one instruction at a time. It keeps the screen awake, beeps when a step comes due, and needs no connection once the page has loaded. Leave it on the counter.
One button turns the plan into a clean, typeset page: the running order with tick boxes, the shopping list, the tools. Print it, or save it as a PDF.
Save the plan and you get an unlisted link. Anyone with it opens the same menu, rescheduled against their own clock — useful when two of you are cooking in one kitchen.
The short version: it does not want anything from you.
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It reads the recipe's own instructions and breaks them into timed blocks, marking which ones need your hands and which ones are the oven's problem. Chopping, searing and plating are hands-on; roasting, simmering, resting, chilling and proving are hands-free, and Mise is happy to run those in parallel with something else.
That reading is done once per recipe and then cached, so the second person to plan a meal around the same dish gets it instantly.
Add it anyway. Type the name into "Add your own" and it goes on the timeline with a rough default you can correct in two taps — hands-on minutes and hands-free minutes. Gravy, rice, garlic bread and "warm the plates" are exactly the sort of thing that wrecks the timing precisely because no recipe ever mentions them.
You can also ask the robots to write the recipe: there is a Generate recipe option in the search results.
Mise tries to avoid it first. Dishes are placed longest-first and nudged earlier a minute at a time until no two hands-on steps overlap; anything pulled early gets a "keep warm" tail so the chart still runs to the serve time.
When a collision genuinely cannot be avoided, it says so plainly — which two steps, at what time — so you can move the meal later or hand one of them to somebody else. It will not quietly pretend you have three hands.
That is the day it was built for. Set the number you're feeding, set the minute you want to sit down, and add every dish including the ones with no recipe. The bigger the meal, the more the running order is worth having.
Cooking mode is designed to be left open on the counter: it keeps the screen awake where the browser allows it, and it needs no connection once the page has loaded. Your plan is also kept on the device for a day, so a refresh or an accidental back button does not lose it. And if you would rather not have a phone in the kitchen at all, print the sheet.
No, and nothing that reads a recipe could honestly say otherwise. Ovens run hot, pans hold heat differently, and a "medium onion" is not a unit. Treat the timeline as a good plan rather than a law, keep a thermometer near the meat, and adjust as you go — the running order still holds even when a step takes five minutes longer than it said.
It takes about a minute, and you will know exactly when to start.
A word of caution. Recipes and meal timings on Robot Recipes are generated, not written by a chef, and we cannot promise a plan will turn out as expected. Always check that meat has reached a safe internal temperature, and always check the ingredient list against any allergies at your table. As an Amazon Associate we may earn commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this site.
