What’s on the Standard Timings poster
A 8-row table: Food · Time · Test.
From a rolling boil unless stated.
- Dried pasta — 8–12 min — Bite; firm centre
- White rice, absorption — 10–12 + 10 rest — All water absorbed
- New potatoes — 15–20 min — Knife slides in
- Roast potatoes — 45–60 min at 200°C — Crisp outside
- Chicken breast — 18–20 min at 200°C — 74°C internal
- Whole chicken — 20 min per 500 g + 20 — 74°C in the thigh
- Hard-boiled egg — 10–12 min — Firm
- Steamed green veg — 3–5 min — Bright, still firm
Ovens vary by 10–20°C from their dial. Check with a thermometer once and adjust every timing accordingly.
Questions about the Standard Timings poster
- What’s on the Standard Timings poster?
- A 8-row table: Food · Time · Test. From a rolling boil unless stated. Dried pasta — 8–12 min — Bite; firm centre; White rice, absorption — 10–12 + 10 rest — All water absorbed; New potatoes — 15–20 min — Knife slides in; Roast potatoes — 45–60 min at 200°C — Crisp outside; Chicken breast — 18–20 min at 200°C — 74°C internal; Whole chicken — 20 min per 500 g + 20 — 74°C in the thigh; Hard-boiled egg — 10–12 min — Firm; Steamed green veg — 3–5 min — Bright, still firm. Ovens vary by 10–20°C from their dial. Check with a thermometer once and adjust every timing accordingly.
- Who is the Standard Timings poster for?
- Standard Timings belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning measures can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Standard Timings poster?
- Times are a guide. Test the food, not the clock. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Standard Timings belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Standard Timings?
- Baking at Altitude, Brining and Coffee Ratios sit alongside Standard Timings in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Baking at AltitudeBriningCoffee Ratios
- Is the Standard Timings poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Standard Timings downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Standard Timings poster print at?
- Standard Timings is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Standard Timings loses nothing.Printing guide
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