Overview
MeatyTimes is a small cooking assistant for roasting joints of meat. You pick a type (beef, lamb, pork, chicken, or gammon), a weight, and a doneness where it applies. It returns oven temperature, cooking time, and rest time, and it can work backwards from a serve-at time so the roast actually fits around a meal. Ok not exactly useful in your average business settings this one, but I got sick of digging through my notes on the odd occasion I have a roast and wanted a simple calculator to tell me when to put the oven on. So I built one.
It is a weekend-shaped product with weekday-shaped engineering: domain rules live in a dedicated core project, cooking-critical behaviour is unit-tested, and the UI is a MudBlazor Blazor app orchestrated with .NET Aspire. The cooking rules themselves are documented JSON, not magic numbers buried in a button click.
Not everything I publish has to be Microsoft 365. Sometimes you just want Sunday lunch to come out on time.
Technologies Used
- .NET 10: ASP.NET Core minimal APIs plus Blazor Server.
- MudBlazor: responsive UI for phone, tablet, and desktop.
- .NET Aspire: local orchestration of the API, UI, and service defaults.
- xUnit v3 + bUnit: domain calculation tests and component tests.
- OpenTelemetry: health checks and telemetry via shared service defaults.
Key Features
- Roast calculator: beef, lamb, pork, chicken, and gammon.
- Doneness handling: where it is appropriate, with food-safe defaults for poultry and pork.
- Serve-at scheduling: work backwards from when you want to eat.
- Auditable rules: cooking logic lives in
MeatyTimes.Corewith documented sources.
Docs
👉 meatytimes.markheydon.me.uk
Repository
👉 GitHub Repo
A deliberately small product, treated like a real one: tests on the sums, a proper UI, and docs for people who just want to know when to put the oven on.