Baking Lab
How I use AI to perfect my baking recipes. Every recipe is a text file in one repo, with a phone app to log a bake or fix a number at the oven.
- Why
- So edits from the kitchen and edits from the laptop are the same edits on the same files.
- How long
- Started July 2026, phone app live September 2026
How I built it
- Kept every recipe as a plain text file in one GitHub folder, with the amounts and my notes on what to change next time.
- Asked Claude Code for a site that reads those files and shows each recipe.
- Added a phone page so I can log a bake or fix a number right at the oven.
- Every edit from the kitchen saves as a change to the same files, so my phone and laptop never disagree.
- To copy it you need
- Claude, or the AI of your choice, a free GitHub account and a free Netlify account.
Try it yourself
Copy this prompt and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude to try it yourself.
I want to copy a setup from Carley Hart's desktop on whatarewebuilding.ai/desktops/carley: a baking log where every recipe is its own text file, with a phone page to log a bake or fix a number right at the oven. Because every version and note lives in the same files, the AI can compare bakes and help perfect a recipe. Her tip: flag any number you're not sure of and check it in the kitchen instead of guessing. Ask me for three of my recipes, set them up as files, and show me how to log my next bake from my phone. Ask me for anything you need.
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