Zovo Cooking Timeline
A Thanksgiving cooking timeline with a clock time for each step and no double-booked oven.
Zovo Cooking Timeline works backward from your serve time. Give it each dish with prep, cook and rest minutes, the oven temperature and whether it can be made ahead. It gives each step a clock time, finds dishes that need one oven at two temperatures at once, moves make-ahead dishes earlier to make room in the oven, and hands you a printable checklist PDF and a calendar file with a reminder for each step. A turkey helper uses the USDA roasting table and fridge thaw rule.
What it does
- Backward schedule from the serve time, across midnight and across days
- Oven conflict check for one or two ovens, with a preheat buffer between temperatures
- Make-ahead dishes moved earlier to the latest open oven slot
- Hands-on prep spread out so one cook is never in two places at once
- Turkey roast time by weight, stuffed or unstuffed, from the USDA table, with the 165°F safe temperature and thaw days
- Printable checklist PDF (Letter or A4) and an ICS calendar file with a reminder per step
Try asking
“Thanksgiving cooking timeline: 16 lb turkey, stuffing 45 min at 350, rolls 15 min at 400, serve at 4 PM”
“Turkey cooking time calculator: 7 kg stuffed turkey”
“Plan my Christmas dinner schedule with two ovens, serving at 6 PM on Dec 25”
Limitations
- It does not invent recipe times; prep, cook and rest minutes come from you (only the turkey has a built-in table)
- Turkey times follow the USDA 325°F table for 4 to 24 lb birds
- Rack space in the oven is not modelled
- Calendar times are local clock times without a time zone
Add it
ChatGPT: once Zovo Cooking Timeline is approved, add it from the ChatGPT plugin directory.
Claude: go to Customize > Connectors > Add custom connector and enter
https://cooking-timeline.zovo.one/mcp. No sign-in is needed. Once Zovo Cooking Timeline is listed in the Claude connector directory, you can add it from there too.Other MCP clients can connect to the same endpoint: https://cooking-timeline.zovo.one/mcp