Send me your recipe.
In 5 business days it comes back balanced, explained, ready to make.
I am Marco Freire. I built the free balancer on this site, and I balance gelato recipes by hand. Give me the recipe you have, or a brief for the one you want, and I set sugars, solids, fat, PAC and POD for your ingredients, your batch size and your machine, with every number explained.
USD 49, one-off. Delivered by email within 5 business days.
What comes back: eight numbers, each checked against its target
- Total solids
- 34 to 42%
- Sugars
- 14 to 22%
- POD
- 135 to 200
- PAC
- 220 to 300
- Fat
- 5 to 12%
- MSNF
- 8 to 12%
- Water
- 58 to 66%
- Protein
- 3 to 5%
Target ranges for a milk gelato base, the same ones the app uses. Your recipe comes back with its own values next to these.
Fix the recipe you have, or get the one you want
Review my recipe
You already have a recipe and it is not behaving: icy, too hard, too sweet, melts too fast, or you simply do not trust it. Send it as it is. I rebalance it for your ingredients and your batch, and I tell you what was off and why.
- Your recipe, corrected, in grams
- What was off, indicator by indicator
- The smallest change that fixes it
Develop a new recipe
You know the gelato you want and you do not have the recipe yet. Describe it: base, flavour, where it will be served, what you can buy. I build it from scratch, inside target on the first try.
- A recipe built for your brief
- Ingredients you can buy in your country
- Ready for your batch size and your machine
A recipe you can make tonight, and understand for good
Everything arrives in one email, written for you, not generated.
- The recipe in grams, scaled to your batch size
- The 8 indicators (total solids, sugars, POD, PAC, fat, MSNF, water, protein), each with its target range
- The step by step for your machine, or for no machine at all
- Why each number was chosen, in plain language
- Substitutions available in your country
- Serving temperature and storage
- One round of follow-up questions by email
USD 49, one-off. Delivered by email within 5 business days.
Three steps, no calls, no waiting around
- 1
Fill in the brief
Five minutes. Tell me what you have or what you want, your ingredients, your machine and your batch size. The more precise you are, the more precise the recipe.
- 2
Pay once
Secure checkout by Stripe. Your brief only reaches me after payment, and what you wrote stays saved in this browser until then.
- 3
Receive it by email
Within 5 business days you get the recipe, the numbers and the reasoning. Make it, and if anything is unclear, reply: one round of follow-up questions is included.
Marco Freire
Creator of the Free Gelato Balancing App
I created the Free Gelato Balancing App, the free balancer this site is built around, and its database of 255 ingredients. I wrote the book Gelateria-Grade Gelato at Home, and every one of the 171 verified recipes on this site went through my hands and the same balancing engine.
This service is that same work, done for your recipe. No template and no automatic output: I read your brief, I balance it myself, and I write back to you.
Tell me about your gelato
Nothing is sent until you pay. Your answers are saved in this browser, so you can come back and finish later.
If I cannot meet your brief, you pay nothing
If I cannot deliver a recipe that meets the brief you sent, I refund the full amount. No forms and no questions: reply to your receipt.
Before you buy
I only have a home machine. Does this still work?+
Yes. Tell me which one in the brief. The recipe is balanced for how your machine freezes, whether it is a home machine, a batch freezer, a Pacojet or Creami, or no machine at all, and the steps come written for that.
Can you work with the ingredients I can actually buy?+
That is why the brief asks for your country and your constraints. I build the recipe around what you can find, and when a substitution is needed I say what to use and what it changes.
Can it be vegan or lactose free?+
Yes. Choose the vegan base, or write lactose free in the constraints. Plant based and lactose free recipes are balanced against their own targets, not squeezed into a milk gelato template.
What do you need from me for a review?+
Your recipe as it is, in grams if possible, and what is going wrong. If you measure in cups or spoons, write that and I convert. Photos are not needed.
How do I receive it?+
By email, at the address you write in the brief, within 5 business days of payment. It is a written document: the recipe, the eight indicators, the steps and the reasoning. You can reply to it with one round of follow-up questions.
What if it does not work when I make it?+
Reply to the email with what you did and what came out. The follow-up round exists for exactly this. Most of the time the fix is a small change in freezing or serving temperature, and I walk you through it.
What is the refund policy?+
If I cannot deliver a recipe that meets the brief you sent, you get a full refund. That is the only condition, and it is on me, not on you.
Can I use the recipe commercially?+
Yes. The recipe is yours to use at home, in your shop or in a product. There is no licence to sign and no credit to add.
Stop guessing with your recipe.
Send it to me. In 5 business days it comes back balanced, explained and ready to make, or you get your money back.
USD 49, one-off. Delivered by email within 5 business days.