Do recipes need to be altered for being at about Sea Level?

Question

Do recipes, specifically the temperatures, but also anything else if this is true, need to be adjusted for being at about Sea Level?
If so... how?
I recently moved from Ontario to the Coast of B.C.
I remember something from Science class about water boiling
at a different temperature depending on altitude, and am wondering, is this so, and if so, how does it affect cooking / baking?
Also, does anyone have a good website which talks about this?
Thanks!
~ Apple

Answer 1

Sea level no alteration of recipes. Altitude is what messes cooking time up.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/h05m8274480pjtm4/

http://www.gofallon.com/cookingtips.htm

Answer 2

only at altitude, "Boiling" will occur earlier in lower atmospheric pressure. If you are at sea level, cooking will be fine. I hope that you are a bit above "Sea Level" of the next wave will be the problem, not cooking (J/K) Good Luck !

Answer 3

When I moved from Texas to Colorado, a gain of about 6000 feet /1800m in elevation, I quickly learned that I had to allow for the reduced pressure of the atmosphere. However, most recipes on packages and in cookbooks assume that you're at sea-level, so generally you don't need to change them. The rule of thumb is that for every thousand feet of elevation you GAIN, the boiling point of water drops by two degrees (F); thus, when I lived at 6000 feet, water boiled at about 200F, while at sea-level it generally boils at about 212 F. It's when you move the other direction that you have to make sure to follow the "high-altitude" directions that are found on most packages; since you're now near sea level (and not too far from me, as I'm now near Seattle, Washington!), you should be able to follow the standard directions on packaging. (The one recipe that just about drove me crazy at high elevation was angel-food cake - there's not much to it to begin with, and with low pressure, it absolutely went EVERYWHERE!!! I quickly learned that what would make one panfull at sea level would make almost two in the Rockies.)

Welcome to the Pacific Coast!

Answer 4

Altitude changes will cause you to change cooking times. if you lived at a high altitude and you moved to sea level then you will need to adjust your cooking times.. (less cooking time for lower altitudes due to air density)

Answer 5

Of course recipes do not need to be altered as the oven, cooker, microwave and preparation area are universal height.

Now .......... gardens are a different thing, you really have to watch gardens at about Sea Level.