FormulateIt converts your kitchen sauce recipe into a scaled weight-based commercial formula with cost analysis, ingredient list, and a professional product formula sheet.
Stop guessing and start formulating. FormulateIt was built by a Food Safety Manager with years of sauce manufacturing experience to give small-batch makers the tools needed to turn their recipe into a commercial-ready formula.
Scale your sauce recipe from a kitchen batch to commercial quantities — by weight, volume, or gallons — with accurate density calculations for every ingredient.
Enter your bulk ingredient costs to get cost per gallon and per bottle, COGS, suggested retail at your markup, and gross margin.
Generate a professional product formula sheet with weight-based ingredient amounts, ingredient list, allergen declaration and batch specifications.
Some ingredients used in home or small-batch recipes do not carry over to larger batches, because of supply consistency or processing limitations. FormulateIt suggests scaled-batch equivalents automatically.
Automatically detects all Big 9 allergens including hidden sources like tamari for soy — with cross-contact warnings and supplier verification reminders.
Type or upload your ingredients in any format — cups, grams, ounces, or counts.
Enter your target batch size in gallons. FormulateIt scales every ingredient with density-accurate calculations.
Get a professional product formula sheet with your batch formula, ingredient list, allergen declaration and cost analysis.
Full access to FormulateIt for one commercial sauce formula. Everything included — no hidden fees, no monthly charges.
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FormulateIt is built for small batch sauce makers, cottage food producers, and food entrepreneurs who are ready to scale a recipe beyond the kitchen. If you make hot sauce, BBQ sauce, marinade, dressing or any acidified sauce and want to scale up, this tool is for you.
A product formula sheet sets out your scaled formula and declarations in one document, in the form a manufacturer expects to receive.
It contains your weight-based formula in grams and percentages, batch specifications including blended density and bottle yield, a Big 9 allergen declaration, and your ingredient statement in FDA declaration order. Cost analysis can be included or left out — it is off by default, since you may not want a manufacturer seeing your margins.
Note: A Process Authority review and an FDA scheduled process filing under 21 CFR 114 are still required before commercial production.
No — that is a job for a Process Authority, and it is a different job from this one. FormulateIt scales your formula and builds your declarations.
A Process Authority review and an FDA scheduled process filing under 21 CFR 114 are what establish safety, and you will need both before commercial production. The tool does not estimate pH, water activity, shelf life or microbial safety, and will never print a figure for any of them.
No. Enter your recipe the way you wrote it — cups, tablespoons, counts, or weights — and the tool converts everything to grams, works out the blended density, scales to your target batch size, and flags allergens.
It handles the scaling and declaration maths. Judgements about process, safety and shelf life stay with you and your Process Authority.
Yes, as many times as you like, for as long as you like. Scale one gallon today to work out your costs, come back next year and scale three hundred for a production run. Change the batch size, convert again, download a new formula sheet. There is no extra charge and no limit.
Your $29 covers one named sauce. Within that sauce you get unlimited scaling, unlimited saved versions, and as many formula sheets as you want.
You name the sauce the first time you convert it, and you can rename it freely for the first week while you settle on something. A genuinely different sauce needs a second licence.
Type or paste your recipe, build it ingredient by ingredient, or upload a file. PDF, Word and plain text are read directly. You can also upload a photo of a handwritten or printed recipe and it will be read for you.
Click Download Recipe File and your complete recipe saves as a .formulateit file on your computer. Click Upload Recipe File to restore it exactly as you left it. This is the way to keep a recipe safely, and the only way to move it to another computer.
Saved recipes and version history inside the app are stored in your browser, not on our servers. They survive closing the tab, but clearing your browsing data or switching device will lose them. Download the file for anything you care about.
No. FormulateIt is a one-time payment of $29 for one commercial sauce recipe. No monthly fees, no annual renewals, no surprises.