Hi there, Im having a problem with recipe scaling and though Im sure there is an easy answer to this I cant seem to find it on the internet and it has me fairly baffled.
I started making my sauce batches fairly small, 20-30 oz at a time. Recently demand has picked up and I am making 100 oz at a time (the size of my largest pot.) I bottle in conventional 5 oz woozys, and measure all units out down to grams and 1/8 oz. So I took my original recipes and divided all ingredients down to the amount in 5 oz. essentially
20 oz recipe:
10 parts A
8 parts B
6 parts C
So divide everything by 4 to find the amount in a 5 oz woozy, thus
5 oz recipe
2.5 parts A
2 parts B
1.5 parts C
I figured I would use this recipe and just multiply it based on the orders Im getting. So to make a 100 oz batch I would just multiply everything by 20 and get
100 oz recipe
50 parts A
40 parts B
30 parts C
However when I use that recipe, I consistently get much more volume than expected, as much as an extra 30 oz. I assume this has to do with the amount of liquid (vinegar/juice) I am using, as the recipes tend to be slightly more liquid than usual, and that it should be multiplied in a direct correlation to the rest of the ingredients, but I have no idea why. Does anybody else have experience with this? Im hopping to go to a CoPacker with my recipes soon and need to get this figured out first. Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much!
I started making my sauce batches fairly small, 20-30 oz at a time. Recently demand has picked up and I am making 100 oz at a time (the size of my largest pot.) I bottle in conventional 5 oz woozys, and measure all units out down to grams and 1/8 oz. So I took my original recipes and divided all ingredients down to the amount in 5 oz. essentially
20 oz recipe:
10 parts A
8 parts B
6 parts C
So divide everything by 4 to find the amount in a 5 oz woozy, thus
5 oz recipe
2.5 parts A
2 parts B
1.5 parts C
I figured I would use this recipe and just multiply it based on the orders Im getting. So to make a 100 oz batch I would just multiply everything by 20 and get
100 oz recipe
50 parts A
40 parts B
30 parts C
However when I use that recipe, I consistently get much more volume than expected, as much as an extra 30 oz. I assume this has to do with the amount of liquid (vinegar/juice) I am using, as the recipes tend to be slightly more liquid than usual, and that it should be multiplied in a direct correlation to the rest of the ingredients, but I have no idea why. Does anybody else have experience with this? Im hopping to go to a CoPacker with my recipes soon and need to get this figured out first. Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much!
