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Formul.io
Will your filling keep?
Formul.io estimates water activity and shelf life from a recipe's composition, so confectioners can compare versions before the first batch.
The estimate guides development. It does not replace a lab test.
What it does
Water activity and shelf life
An estimate from the recipe's composition. Add an ingredient, compare the balance, and choose what to test in the kitchen next.
Eight calculators
Ganache, caramel, dragée, pâte de fruit, ice cream, nougat, mousse and your own recipe, with ingredients, calculations and saved versions in one workspace.
Versions worth keeping
Save a snapshot before the next change. Compare your versions and return to the quantities that worked.
Same proportions, a different batch
Choose the quantity you need and the ingredient weights follow, from a trial to the next batch.
Cook mode
Cook step by step with timers and a weighing checklist, and keep a log of each batch you finish.
Recipe import
Add a recipe from a photo, a link, pasted text or a file.
A closer look
Drawn from Formul.io's published example recipe, a dark chocolate ganache.
Dark chocolate ganache
Composition of a saved recipe
1,000 g
Fat
36.4%
Sugars
26.6%
Water
15.6%
Dark chocolate 66%530 g
Cream 35%220 g
Invert sugar80 g
Sorbitol60 g
Glucose syrup DE 4030 g
Cocoa butter50 g
Butter30 g
Estimated water activityAw 0.750
A recipe and its balance
Fat, sugars and water as shares of the recipe, every ingredient in grams, and the estimated water activity under them.
01
With syrups and sorbitol
920 g
Fat31.5%
Estimated water activity0.742
02
The complete recipe
1,000 g
Fat36.4%
Estimated water activity0.750
Cocoa butter+50 g
Butter+30 g
Two versions, side by side
The same ganache before and after cocoa butter and butter go in. Fat rises from 31.5% to 36.4%, estimated Aw from 0.742 to 0.750.
Dark chocolate ganache
Same proportions
2 kg
1 kg2 kg5 kgDark chocolate 66%1,060 g
Cream 35%440 g
Invert sugar160 g
Sorbitol120 g
Glucose syrup DE 4060 g
Cocoa butter100 g
Butter60 g
Another batch size
The same recipe at two kilograms. Weights change; ingredient proportions stay the same.
About Formul.io
Formul.io is for people who make ganaches, caramels and other fillings and need to know how long they will keep.
You enter a recipe, and it works out the composition and estimates water activity and shelf life from it. Change an ingredient and the numbers follow, so two versions can be compared before anything is cooked.
Shelf life still needs validation for your own product and storage conditions.
- Status
- Available now
- Runs on
- Web, iPhone
- This page
- appkin.dev/formulio
- The app
- formul.io
- Help
- hello@appkin.dev
- Published by
- Appkin
