diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 9df96d6efa..a6911d4e2c 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ TimerOutputs = "0.5.7"
 Triangulate = "2.2"
 TriplotBase = "0.1"
 TriplotRecipes = "0.1"
-TrixiBase = "0.1.1"
+TrixiBase = "0.1.3"
 UUIDs = "1.6"
 julia = "1.8"
 
diff --git a/src/Trixi.jl b/src/Trixi.jl
index 3a882d0962..b8364eef44 100644
--- a/src/Trixi.jl
+++ b/src/Trixi.jl
@@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ using Static: Static, One, True, False
 using StaticArrays: StaticArrays, MVector, MArray, SMatrix, @SMatrix
 using StrideArrays: PtrArray, StrideArray, StaticInt
 @reexport using StructArrays: StructArrays, StructArray
-using TimerOutputs: TimerOutputs, @notimeit, TimerOutput, print_timer, reset_timer!
+using TimerOutputs: TimerOutputs, @notimeit, print_timer, reset_timer!
 using Triangulate: Triangulate, TriangulateIO
 export TriangulateIO # for type parameter in DGMultiMesh
 using TriplotBase: TriplotBase
 using TriplotRecipes: DGTriPseudocolor
 @reexport using TrixiBase: trixi_include
-using TrixiBase: TrixiBase
+using TrixiBase: TrixiBase, @trixi_timeit, timer
 @reexport using SimpleUnPack: @unpack
 using SimpleUnPack: @pack!
 using DataStructures: BinaryHeap, FasterForward, extract_all!
diff --git a/src/auxiliary/auxiliary.jl b/src/auxiliary/auxiliary.jl
index 972a748c56..6259e93673 100644
--- a/src/auxiliary/auxiliary.jl
+++ b/src/auxiliary/auxiliary.jl
@@ -4,19 +4,6 @@
 include("containers.jl")
 include("math.jl")
 
-# Enable debug timings `@trixi_timeit timer() "name" stuff...`.
-# This allows us to disable timings completely by executing
-# `TimerOutputs.disable_debug_timings(Trixi)`
-# and to enable them again by executing
-# `TimerOutputs.enable_debug_timings(Trixi)`
-timeit_debug_enabled() = true
-
-# Store main timer for global timing of functions
-const main_timer = TimerOutput()
-
-# Always call timer() to hide implementation details
-timer() = main_timer
-
 # By default, Julia/LLVM does not use fused multiply-add operations (FMAs).
 # Since these FMAs can increase the performance of many numerical algorithms,
 # we need to opt-in explicitly.
@@ -249,33 +236,6 @@ macro threaded(expr)
                end)
 end
 
-#     @trixi_timeit timer() "some label" expression
-#
-# Basically the same as a special case of `@timeit_debug` from
-# [TimerOutputs.jl](https://github.com/KristofferC/TimerOutputs.jl),
-# but without `try ... finally ... end` block. Thus, it's not exception-safe,
-# but it also avoids some related performance problems. Since we do not use
-# exception handling in Trixi.jl, that's not really an issue.
-macro trixi_timeit(timer_output, label, expr)
-    timeit_block = quote
-        if timeit_debug_enabled()
-            local to = $(esc(timer_output))
-            local enabled = to.enabled
-            if enabled
-                local accumulated_data = $(TimerOutputs.push!)(to, $(esc(label)))
-            end
-            local b₀ = $(TimerOutputs.gc_bytes)()
-            local t₀ = $(TimerOutputs.time_ns)()
-        end
-        local val = $(esc(expr))
-        if timeit_debug_enabled() && enabled
-            $(TimerOutputs.do_accumulate!)(accumulated_data, t₀, b₀)
-            $(TimerOutputs.pop!)(to)
-        end
-        val
-    end
-end
-
 """
     @autoinfiltrate
     @autoinfiltrate condition::Bool