Fat Formulator

With the two fat formulators, you can:

- Create customized meat or dairy ingredients with a specified percentage of fat.
- Calculate the ratios of the ingredients needed to create a custom blend.
- Change the ingredients used in the custom blending process, thereby creating additional combinations.

Meat Formulator

The meat formulator allows you to create customized meats with a specified fat percentage by blending two ingredients, i.e., beef tallow and lean beef.

1. From the Databases ribbon, choose Fat Formulator and select the Meat radio button.
2. Enter the target fat percentage.
3. Select meat type from the Category pull-down list.
4. The program will automatically calculate the percentage of both Fat and Lean needed to equal the
  desired target fat percentage. You can use the default ingredients listed or select your own. See below.)
5. Click Create. This opens an Ingredient window. Make any necessary changes here and click OK when
  you’re finished.

EXAMPLE:

Create a 30% fat beef mix.

1. In the target percent box, enter 30.
2. Select Beef under Category.
3. The gram weight of each constituent ingredient will be re-calculated to show the number of grams needed of each item.

The information can be read this way. It will take 63.44 grams of raw, lean composite beef, combined with 36.56 grams of raw beef fat, to create 100 grams of a 30% fat beef mix.

To select different Fat and Lean ingredients

1. Select Edit Lean to choose the lean element of the meat formula. (This will open a search window.)
2. Select Edit Fat to choose the fat element of the meat formula. (This will open a search window.)

The gram weight of each ingredient will be recalculated to show the amount needed to meet the new
specification

Dairy Formulator

1. From the Databases ribbon, choose Fat Formulator and select the Dairy radio button.
2. The steps for using the Dairy Formulator are the same as those for using the Meat Formulator, with the following two exceptions:

- There is only one mix type available, and you cannot add a new mix or modify an existing one.
- With the Dairy Formulator, there is an additional constituent ingredient – water.

The Dairy Formulator assumes a 90:10 ratio between the amount of desired fat and the amount of nonfat milk solids. After you set the desired fat percentage, the amount of nonfat milk solids is calculated as a percentage of the amount of desired fat. Then, enough water is added to make 100 grams of the total product.