BilanciaLi Studio – Ice cream balancer for advanced enthusiasts

Description

BilanciaLi Studio is the evolution of the old Pro version, reimagined for those who make ice cream at home with a more serious, curious and experimental approach.

If BilanciaLi Basic is the gateway to balancing, Studio is the next step: it allows you to save your recipes, work with multiple profiles, configure parameters according to the type of ice cream you want to achieve, and build a true personal archive over time.

It is not designed only for those who work in ice cream parlors. On the contrary, it is probably the version best suited for “geeky” homemakers: those who are not satisfied with a generic base, who want to understand what happens when they change a sugar, increase solids, change the serving temperature, or try a gourmet recipe.

What changes with BilanciaLi Studio 3.0

The old Pro version changes its name to BilanciaLi Studio. The change is not just cosmetic. It is mainly to make the positioning of the three versions clearer:

• The BilanciaLi Basic version is for beginners.
• The BilanciaLi Studio version is for those who want to experiment, save and customize.
• The BilanciaLi Gold version is for laboratory, restaurant, and homemakers who want maximum technical control.

Compared to the old Pro, Studio introduces an important new feature: the recipe saving and management system has been improved and is no longer limited to a fixed number of recipes. You can create, save and update your personal archive directly in the file, without having to choose which recipes to keep and which to delete.

The old Pro version and the new Studio use different structures, so there is no automatic migration of recipes from Pro to Studio. From Studio forward, however, the system is designed to better accompany you over time: you will be able to migrate data from Studio to future versions and even from Studio to Gold, in case you want to upgrade someday.

Multilingual Version (Italian + English)

When you buy the product, you directly find two versions, one in Italian and one in English. You choose which one to use.

Unlimited recipe saving

The most important difference from Basic is the ability to save and manage your recipes directly in the file.

With BilanciaLi Studio, you don’t work from scratch every time: you can build your personal archive over time, saving bases, sorbets, slushies, vegan ice creams, gourmet recipes, seasonal trials and successive versions of the same flavor.

Compared to the old Pro, the saving system has been improved and is no longer limited to a predefined number of recipes. This makes Studio much more suitable for those who experiment often and want to use BilanciaLi not just as a calculator, but as a real personal working tool.

What’s more, the new system is designed to be more “future-compatible”: data saved in Studio can be migrated to future versions of BilanciaLi Studio and even to BilanciaLi Gold, in case you want to upgrade to the next level.

7 configurable profiles

BilanciaLi Studio includes 7 configurable profiles designed to adapt the balance to different preparations:

• Ice cream
• Sorbet
• Granita
• Vegan ice cream
• Gastronomic
• Gastronomic sorbet
• Pacojet/Ninja Creami Ice Cream

Each profile can have its own parameters, because it makes no sense to balance a fruit sorbet, a granita, a vegan ice cream, and a gourmet ice cream with the same logic. This is one of the most important functions of Studio: it allows you to get out of the standard recipe and start building recipes that are better suited to the result you want to achieve.

Profiles can also be customized and used for other types of preparation if needed, such as parfaits, ice creams for ninja creams or variegates. Just adapt minimums and maximums according to your own requirements.

Over 120 recipes included to get you started right away

BilanciaLi Studio already includes an archive of recipes organized by profile: ice cream, sorbet, granita, vegan ice cream, gourmet, gourmet sorbet, and Pacojet.

You can use them as a starting point, edit them, recalculate them, and save new versions directly to the file. This way you don’t start with a blank screen, but with concrete examples that help you better understand how balancing works.

Configurable balancing parameters

You can configure the reference values used by the balancer, such as sugars, fats, SLNG, total solids, other solids, SP, AFP, neutrals, alcohols, and chopped foods. Basically, you can decide what the correct ranges are for each profile and let BilanciaLi tell you whether the recipe is in or out of the parameters you set.

This is where Studio becomes interesting for those who already have some experience: it does not force you to use one way of balancing, but allows you to adapt the tool to your style.

Balancing by serving temperature

Study also allows you to reason about the recipe as a function of serving temperature.

This is critical because AFP is not just a theoretical number: it affects the consistency of the ice cream at the temperature at which it will be served.

If you want ice cream better suited to your home freezer, a well, a display case, or a specific service, knowing how the recipe performs with respect to temperature is much more useful than just looking at the ingredient list.

Minima and maxima for each ingredient

Each ingredient can have a minimum and maximum percentage. This allows you to balance not only the broad parameters of the recipe, but also the use of individual ingredients: how much cream at most, how much milk powder, how much neutral, how much sugar, how much main ingredient.

This is a very practical function because it helps you avoid recipes that are theoretically correct but make little sense in composition.

Weight recalculation while maintaining balance

Have you balanced a 1 kg recipe but want to produce 750 g, 2 kg or 5 kg? With the recalculation function you can adjust the final weight while maintaining the proportions of the recipe. It’s a simple function, but very useful when you go from testing to production, or when you want to redo a recipe without having to recalculate everything by hand.

Ingredients divided by category and extensible list

The ingredients are organized by category to make the work more orderly:

• Main Ingredients
• Dairy Products & Eggs
• Neutrals & Bases
• Sugars
• Fruits & Vegetables
• Spirits
• Chopped foods

The ingredient list is extensible, so you can add new ingredients and customize values based on the products you actually use.

Balancing of neutrals, bases, alcohols and chopped foods

Studio also allows you to handle more specific items, such as neutrals, bases, alcohols and chopped foods.

You can control the impact of alcohols on the PAC, set the use of neutrals, include specific bases or ingredients, and keep an eye on elements such as nuts, chocolate pieces, inclusions, or ingredients that do not have to affect all the parameters of the mixture.

Indicative calculation of calories

BilanciaLi Studio also calculates the approximate calories in the recipe. It is not a substitute for a nutritional lab analysis, but it gives you a useful reference to better understand the product you are building.

AFP calculators

In addition to balancing ingredients, it is sometimes useful to be able to calculate the AFP of a sugar or semi-finished product that is not yet in the ingredients. BilanciaLi contains 3 simple calculators that can provide you with the AFP of

• Fatty pastes (based on their amount of sugar and fat)
• Of the sugars (based on the molecular weight of the sugar)
• Chocolate-based pastes (based on the amount of sugar, cocoa butter and dry cocoa)

Video Demo

In the video below I will guide you to discover all the new features of our ice cream balancer, a tool that has now become indispensable for both professional ice cream makers and home enthusiasts alike. We will explore together the three new versions available (Gold, Studio and Basic) and I will show you in action the more advanced functions of the Excel balancer, such as the innovative Freezing Curve , calculation of the optimal quenching point and new precision management for PAC and POD of dairy and delactose products.. Make yourself comfortable and click Play to find out which version is right for you and how to migrate your old recipes in a matter of seconds!

Who is BilanciaLi Studio suitable for

BilanciaLi Studio is designed for those who are past the “I’ll try a recipe and see what happens” stage. It is suitable for those who make ice cream at home but want to experiment more neatly, save recipes, compare different versions, configure profiles, and work on vegan, gourmet, sorbet, slush, or Pacojet/Ninja Creami ice creams.

Basically, it is the version for advanced homebuilders, technical enthusiasts and those who want a much more flexible file than Basic, without necessarily getting to the advanced analysis level of Gold.

If you just want to get started, Basic is probably sufficient.
If you want to save, configure, experiment, and build a personal archive, Studio is the most sensible choice.

Not enough features in the Studio? The Gold version might be for you…

BilanciaLi Studio already gives you a lot of freedom: recipe saving, 7 configurable profiles, serving temperature, recalculation, minimums and maximums per ingredient, and customizable parameters.

BilanciaLi Gold, on the other hand, is designed for those who want maximum technical control: freezing curve, advanced calculation of serving temperature, PQO, food cost, sandiness index, and semi-finished product management function to create recipes that can then be used as a single ingredient within an ice cream recipe.

Minimum Requirements

BilanciaLi is an Excel spreadsheet and requires no ‘installation.

Making use of “macros” and modern functions of Microsoft Excel requires that a recent version of Microsoft Office be installed on your computer.

• On Windows or Mac OS: Microsoft Office 2021 or newer versions

BilanciaLi is officially supported only by Microsoft Office (listed versions or newer) and will not work with Open Office, Google Docs, or other unlisted spreadsheet readers.

On tablets and smartphones the balancer is not fully functional because macros are not supported.

Free update period

Once the product is purchased, the user can access free updates for 1 year, should new versions come out (updates are not very frequent as the product is very stable).

Important Note: Upgrade is done by downloading the latest version available in the download section of the user area and overwriting the old version. The file remains available for one year, then disappears.

User’s Manual

The best way to understand how to use the software is to sign up for the free course on balancing, in which all the functions of balancing gold are shown in a practical way.

Find a written version of the manual from the support page.