About Bake at Elevation

A free tool for people who bake above 3,000 feet and want to use the recipe they already have, with the ingredients they already have.

Privacy

• No accounts, no sign-up and no tracking cookies. Your last ZIP or altitude is remembered in your own browser (localStorage) so you don't retype it.
• Pasted recipes and photos are processed in your browser. Photo text recognition runs on your device.
• Recipe links are fetched by our server only to read the ingredient list. We don't keep the page, the recipe or the link.
• If we ever turn on a server-side photo reader for handwritten cards, this page will say so first. Photos would be sent to the reading service, used once, and never stored by us.

For recipe site owners

Our reader identifies itself as BakeAtElevation. It makes one request when a person pastes your link, reads only your schema.org ingredient list and timing, shows none of your text or photos (the steps we show are generic ones we wrote for each type of recipe), and links readers back to your page for the method. If a site blocks it, we respect that and ask the person to paste the ingredients instead.

Affiliate links

There are none right now. If we add any (for example King Arthur Baking or Amazon), they'll be labeled where they appear with a disclosure like this: "Some links here are affiliate links. If you buy through them, Bake at Elevation may earn a small commission (King Arthur Baking via Awin; as an Amazon Associate Bake at Elevation earns from qualifying purchases). It never changes our adjustments."

Disclaimer

Altitude adjustments are starting points from published Extension and King Arthur Baking guidance, not guarantees. Ovens, pans, ingredients and weather all vary. We don't give canning, candy-temperature or food-safety advice; follow official guidance for those. Always check that the ingredient list we read matches your recipe.

Data credits

ZIP locations: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) and US Census Bureau ZCTA Gazetteer. Elevation: Copernicus GLO-90 DEM via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). Photo reading: Tesseract.js (Apache 2.0).

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