UniTools Open Data

Dataset 1: recipes from around the world

501 dishes from 127 countries — each described in Russian and English, written for its language rather than translated.

Per-serving nutrition on every dish, prep and cook times, difficulty, category and diets.

Ingredients with stable identifiers and scaling rules: meat scales linearly with servings, salt and spices are damped.

Over three thousand steps with minutes; part of the dishes carry human-reviewed Wikimedia Commons photos with author and licence.

The recipe pages themselves are gone: that section was retired on 30 August 2026 and now answers 410. The dataset is unaffected — it stands on its own and stays available.

Dataset 2: oven times and temperatures

200 products — chicken breast to cheesecake: oven temperature, a practical minutes range, the safe internal minimum and recommended rest.

Every product carries its primary sources: official FoodSafety.gov and FSIS charts, King Arthur, manufacturer package directions.

An honest confidence level (high/medium) and the key geometry driver of timing: thickness, weight or batch size.

Open the oven-time calculator on the site →

Versions and changes

v2.0 — 2 September 2026: the url field is gone from both sets. It pointed at recipe and cooking-guide pages, and those were removed from the site on 30 August and now answer 410. There is one link left, to this page, in the landingPage field. No other field changed.

v1.0 — 6 August 2026: first release of both datasets. Recipes: 501 dishes, 127 countries. Cooking times: 200 products, each with primary sources.

The file name carries the version (…-v1…): old links keep serving the same file, and a new version ships alongside under a new name.

Licence and terms

CC BY-SA 4.0: copy, modify and use commercially. Two conditions — credit the source (UniTools, theunitools.com) and share derivatives under the same licence.

Photographs in the recipes dataset carry their own Commons licences — the author and licence sit in each dish's photo field.

Worth knowing before you use it

Nutrition is computed from ingredients and cooking times are practical home-oven ranges: planning references, not lab measurements.

One person maintains both datasets. Mistakes are possible; report one and the fix lands in the next file version.

A widget for your site

The roast timer built on the second dataset embeds with a single line — the widget weighs under 40 KB and loads no third-party scripts:

<iframe src="https://theunitools.com/embed/cooking-timer?lang=en"
  width="100%" height="260" style="border:0" loading="lazy"
  title="How long to roast — UniTools"></iframe>

Or print the one-sheet cheat sheet of all 200 products: Oven times cheat sheet →

How to cite

BibTeX for academic work; anywhere else a link to theunitools.com is enough.

@misc{unitools_recipes_2026,
  author = {Oleg},
  title  = {UniTools World Recipes Dataset},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {v1.0, CC BY-SA 4.0},
  url    = {https://theunitools.com/en/data}
}

@misc{unitools_cooking_times_2026,
  author = {Oleg},
  title  = {UniTools Oven Cooking Times Dataset},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {v1.0, CC BY-SA 4.0},
  url    = {https://theunitools.com/en/data}
}