Terms of Use

Welcome to Spoon and Simmer. These Terms of Use explain the rules for visiting and using this website, including our recipes, articles, images, and comment sections. By browsing this site, you agree to the terms below. If you do not agree with any part of them, please discontinue use of the site.

Acceptance of These Terms

Simply by accessing Spoon and Simmer, you accept these Terms of Use in full. We may update this page from time to time as the site grows or as our practices change, and continued use after any update means you accept the revised terms. We encourage you to check back occasionally, especially if you are a regular reader or use our recipes often.

Purpose of This Site

Spoon and Simmer is a home-cooking and recipe website covering dinners, breakfasts, desserts, appetizers, salads, soups, baking, drinks, and seasonal favorites — from slow-cooked comfort food like a Sunday-worthy beef stew to quick weeknight meals like a one-pot gnocchi chicken pot pie. Our goal is to share tested, practical recipes and cooking guidance for home kitchens. Nothing on this site is professional dietary, medical, or nutritional advice. For more on how we approach our content and recipe testing, see our Editorial Policy.

Use at Your Own Risk

Cooking involves inherent risks — heat, sharp tools, raw ingredients, and individual allergies or sensitivities. Recipes, cooking times, and temperatures are provided as guidance based on our own testing conditions, and results can vary depending on your equipment, ingredients, and altitude. You are responsible for using safe food-handling practices, checking ingredients against your own allergies or dietary restrictions, and using your own judgment in the kitchen. Please review our full Disclaimer for more detail on how this applies to recipes and any health-related mentions on the site.

Intellectual Property

All original recipes, written content, photographs, and page designs on Spoon and Simmer are owned by us unless otherwise credited. This means you may not copy full articles or recipe text, republish our photos, or reproduce substantial portions of the site elsewhere without written permission. Photo sourcing and credit information, where applicable, is detailed on our Image Credits page.

Permitted Sharing and Citing

We are happy to have readers share our work in the following ways:

• Sharing a direct link to one of our posts on social media, blogs, or forums.
• Pinning our images to Pinterest with proper attribution back to the original post — see our Pinterest Disclaimer for specifics.
• Writing your own version of a recipe in your own words, with a courteous credit and link back to Spoon and Simmer as the original source.
• Quoting a short excerpt (a sentence or two) alongside a clear link to the original article.

What is not permitted is copying an entire recipe, ingredient list and instructions included, or reposting our photos as your own without credit. If you would like to reference our work in a larger publication, cookbook, or roundup, please reach out first through Contact.

Visitor Conduct

We want Spoon and Simmer to remain a friendly, useful space for home cooks. When using the site, you agree not to attempt to hack, disrupt, or overload our servers, not to post spam, misleading claims, or offensive content in comments, and not to use the site for any unlawful purpose. Repeated violations may result in restricted access.

Comments and Community Responsibility

We love hearing how your version of a recipe turned out, and comment sections are open for genuine feedback, questions, and substitutions that worked for you. However, comments are user-generated content, and we are not responsible for the accuracy of tips, substitutions, or opinions posted by other readers. Please use good judgment before applying advice from a comment to your own cooking, particularly around food safety. Our full expectations for respectful, on-topic participation are outlined in our Community Guidelines, and we reserve the right to remove comments that are abusive, spammy, or clearly unsafe.

Site Availability and Changes

We aim to keep Spoon and Simmer accessible and up to date, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. The site may occasionally be down for maintenance, updates, or reasons beyond our control. We also reserve the right to add, edit, or remove recipes, articles, and features at any time without prior notice, as we continue to refine and improve the content.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Spoon and Simmer and its contributors are not liable for any damages, losses, or issues — including but not limited to failed recipes, kitchen mishaps, allergic reactions, or reliance on information presented here — arising from your use of this site. Content is provided „as is,“ without warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for a particular purpose.

Third-Party Links

From time to time, we may link out to other websites, tools, brands, or products we find useful or relevant to a recipe. We do not control these external sites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, or privacy practices. Any partnerships, sponsorships, or affiliate relationships are disclosed separately in our Disclosure and Affiliate Disclaimer pages, so you always know when a link may benefit us commercially.

Privacy and Cookies

Your privacy matters to us. Details on what information we collect, how it is used, and your choices around it are covered in our Privacy Policy, while information about tracking technologies and cookie preferences can be found in our Cookie Policy. Both should be read alongside these Terms of Use as part of our overall approach to how the site operates.

Questions About These Terms

If anything here is unclear, or if you have a question about using our content, working with us, or anything else related to the site, we are glad to help. Learn more about who we are on our About Us page, or reach out anytime at [email protected]. If you are interested in working together, our Collaboration page has more details on how that works.