Bakery Wizard's Typical Usage
The perfect software addition to any commercial bakeries!

In order to familiarize yourself with Bakery Wizard typical usage, you should go through the steps below and create yourself a "fake" batch of dough.
Ok so, lets suppose that you have on hands a recipe/formula to make one loaf of bread out of all purpose flour. One loaf is fine but later today you need to make 30 of them plus a bunch of other items out of that same dough! Not to worry, that's where Bakery Wizard comes in ! You can take that one single recipe and produce hundreds more breads or items from it!
What you need to do initially is enter all the information into the proper fields for that 1 loaf of bread and you'll be set thereafter to add/change around the amounts of items at will.
Ok back to our 1 loaf of bread... For the purpose of this lesson we will call our dough "White dough" so use up one of the 19 fields on the left of Bakery Wizard's welcome screen and write down White dough.
Save this dough title and click on the corresponding "GO !" button next to it. If this is your first dough creation you will be asked to fill in your mixer's capacity first.

Onto the good stuff...
Now lets call this bread (Baguette) so you put Baguette into your items list. Let's say this Baguette loaf weighs 400 grams (uncooked) so you put 400 and select 1 from the drop down list next to it. You should now see 400 g in your Total dough window (top right)
See below.
Initial batch ratio formula settings

OK so far so good, don't bother entering any more items on that list for now, remember we're working from that 1 recipe which is for 1 loaf of bread only. Next, Bakery Wizard needs to know what exactly goes in to this 1 loaf of bread, so move to the list on the right and write down the name of each ingredient that goes into this 1 Baguette.
You now have three choices of how to go about entering your ingredients weight. (see image above)
A - By entering their direct gram values (grams column)
B - By entering their percentages in relation to your main flour (% to Flour column)
C - By entering their percentages in relation to your dough (% to Dough column)
You need ONLY CHOOSE ONE of the above methods. ( A, B or C ) Bakery Wizard will fill in the other fields automatically for you !
Once this is done and that you are certain that all of your ingredients are in, you should save this ingredients list. In fact this ingredients list now becomes your master "batch ratio formula" for any future batch that you will need to produce out of this dough.
From your bakery items list, NOW you can add any bakery items that you need for a particular batch. Note that every time you will now add a new item, your ingredients weight will also adjust accordingly automatically.

Here's how a batch might look like after your (batch ratio formula) has been entered and new items added.
Typical batch/usage settings

At this point you can click [Send to Batch Preview Window] for immediately preview of your batch. From there you can save your Batch to file by clicking the Save Icon above and assigning a proper name so you can recall it later or simply print it out on paper.

[Batch Cost Calculator Function] Calculating all of your batch items cost (to you and to your customers) can be done by calling the [Batch Cost Calculator] function. You should fill in both sections of this page as accurately as possible and save all the information you've entered BEFORE exiting the page. All percentages you enter in your overhead section will be the cost passed on to your customers (for this particular batch) and will be calculated first.
All dollar amounts entered in your overhead section will be costs passed on to your customers (for this particular batch) and will be added onto the above. (in any event, the resulting cost to your customers will reflect both percentage and dollars amount entered, added from your own batch cost total and applied respectively to every bakery items.
Tip: You can convert any dollar amounts you've entered, to percentages (relative to your batch) by clicking on the [Convert $ to %] button. For practical reasons however, this dollar amount when converted, is rounded up to nearest percentage equivalent figure and may not reflect exact/true percentage equivalent. Clicking on the [Show me the Money !] button will give a summary view of your batch cost this far, to you and your customers. From there, this information can then be sent to the batch preview window to be either saved to a file or printed out on paper.
NOTE: In order to get an exact batch cost figure you must make sure that the information entered on the Batch Cost Calculator page is relevant and up to date PRIOR to clicking onto the [Show Me The Money !] button.

METRIC WEIGHT SYSTEM In order to keep Bakery Wizard's graphical user interface as neat as possible, only metric grams/kilograms are used as weight input throughout the program. If you use US / Imperial scales in your bakery, simply use the [Scale Weight Converter] provided with Bakery Wizard to convert oz & lb to g or kg then copy & paste the result into the appropriate field.
Scale weight converter
When entering your bakery items weight (in grams) it is important to note that this weight must refers to their UNCOOKED dough weight. As this software was designed mostly for commercial bakeries, it is assumed that you are already familiar with the inherent requirement of using ingredients weight/mass rather then volume/capacity for figuring out your batch of baked goods.

[Special help notes/troubleshooting]

*If some of your number values act weird when saving either your bakery items or ingredients list, check into your Windows Regional settings Properties under the Number tab and set your values as shown below.
Windows Regional Settings Properties
*All of your text formatting should be done after having finalized your batch. IE: Prior to saving or printing.
* Best viewing will be obtained by setting your screen resolution at 1024 X 768.
* The Save function is disabled when help is displayed


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Bakery Wizard 1.0.5 1.53 Mb

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