question: How is a food recipe scaled up for mass production on an assembly line? Is it possible to maintain or come close to the original recipe when it's changed to be manufactured at a factory?
comment: Absolutely. Cooking is a series of mechanical and chemical processes to turn raw material into a finished product. It can be made and packaged in an assembly-line style factory. Honestly, I'm wondering if there's something deeper about your question that I'm missing. How do you imagine we have things like computers and cars? Why *wouldn't* these processes work just as well for food?
passages: BULLET::::2. All the vegetables and herbs are chopped and put into a large container (alternatively, the tomatoes may be puréed in a blender or food processor, pounded in a mortar (the traditional method), or strained and de-seeded with a food mill)
  
  BULLET::::3. Some of the contents of the container are then blended until liquid, depending on the desired consistency.
  
  BULLET::::4. Chilled water, olive oil, vinegar and salt are then added to taste.
  
  BULLET::::5. The remaining contents of the container are added to the liquid, then briefly blended, but not to purée, leaving some texture. (optional)
   Food processing includes the methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food for human consumption. Food processing takes clean, harvested or slaughtered and butchered components and uses them to produce marketable food products. There are several different ways in which food can be produced.
  
  One-off production: This method is used when customers make an order for something to be made to their own specifications, for example a wedding cake. The making of one-off products could take days depending on how intricate the design is.
   The plastic models are mostly handmade from polyvinyl chloride and sculpted to look like the actual dishes. The models can be custom-tailored to individual restaurants and even common items such as ramen can be modified to match each establishment's food. During the molding process, the imitation ingredients are often chopped up and combined in a manner similar to actual cooking.
   Mass production: This method is used when there is a mass market for a large number of identical products, for example chocolate bars, ready meals and canned food. The product passes from one stage of production to another along a production line.
  
  Just-in-time (JIT) (production): This method of production is mainly used in restaurants. All components of the product are available in-house and the customer chooses what they want in the product. It is then prepared in a kitchen, or in front of the buyer as in sandwich delicatessens, pizzerias, and sushi bars.
  
  Section::::Industry influence.
   Food processing industries and practices include the following:
  
  BULLET::::- Cannery
  
  BULLET::::- Fish processing
  
  BULLET::::- Food packaging plant
  
  BULLET::::- Industrial rendering
  
  BULLET::::- Meat packing plant
  
  BULLET::::- Slaughterhouse
  
  BULLET::::- Sugar industry
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  BULLET::::- Best before
  
  BULLET::::- Brewery
  
  BULLET::::- Canning
  
  BULLET::::- Dietary supplement
  
  BULLET::::- Enzyme
  
  BULLET::::- Flavoring
  
  BULLET::::- Food additive
  
  BULLET::::- "Food and Bioprocess Technology"
  
  BULLET::::- Food coloring
  
  BULLET::::- Food extrusion
  
  BULLET::::- Food fortification
  
  BULLET::::- Food quality
  
  BULLET::::- Food rheology
  
  BULLET::::- Food science
  
  BULLET::::- Food storage
  
  BULLET::::- Genetically modified food
  
  BULLET::::- List of cooking techniques
  
  BULLET::::- Material handling
  
  BULLET::::- Nutraceutical
  
  BULLET::::- Pasteurization
  
  BULLET::::- Pink slime
  
  BULLET::::- Shelf-life
  
  BULLET::::- Snap freezing
   In North America, fake food is often used for retail displays. Furniture retailers use it in showrooms (such as a bowl of fake apples) to give their furniture settings a lived-in look.
  
  Section::::Manufacturing process.
  
  Modern manufacturing technologies and high quality plastic materials provide realistic-looking fake food replicas, and approximately 95% of all fake food is still handcrafted. Artisans and highly trained craftsmen make realistic fake food, often painting them by hand to create a realistic look and feel.
   Sometimes limited runs of a design might be manufactured without full productionisation.
  
  Other examples of productionisation include:
  
  BULLET::::- plastic mouldings instead of hand-constructed parts
  
  BULLET::::- built-in fasteners
  
  BULLET::::- snap-together or machine welded parts instead of using fasteners
  
  BULLET::::- custom integrated circuits instead of discrete electronic components
  
  BULLET::::- customised IT solutions released into a live environment.
   Manufacturers have long employed analogous engineering techniques to create a product line of similar products using a common factory that assembles and configures parts designed to be reused across the product line. For example, automotive manufacturers can create unique variations of one car model using a single pool of carefully designed parts and a factory specifically designed to configure and assemble those parts.
   BULLET::::- There are many methods for reproducing parts, depending on the part, its use and the materials it is made of. One possibility is contacting the OEM who originally made the part and might still have the necessary tooling. In such case, an original part is obtained without the need for a wide research or extensive reverse-engineering.
   Today, some KitchenAid products are manufactured in Ohio, South Carolina, Mississippi, Indiana, Arkansas, Ontario, and Quebec while others are manufactured in China, and its appliances are distributed throughout North America. All KitchenAid stand mixers are assembled in its factory in Greenville, Ohio. The die-cast parts of the machines come from various manufacturing plants around the world and are hand worked to remove imperfections on the metal cases. A factory tour, known as the "KitchenAid Experience" is conducted by the assembly line workers.
  
  Section::::Food and retail expansion.
   Each recipe card has a standardized format; each recipe is calibrated to feed 100 people, with a basic nutritional analysis across the top of the card. Traditionally available primarily in print format, the AFRS database is also available electronically.
  
  Section::::External links.
  
  BULLET::::- US Army Quartermaster Center Joint Culinary Center for Excellence including the full AFRS recipe download  as well as numerous supporting documents regarding military food service procedures (backup link here
  
  BULLET::::- Article on the history and current direction of the AFRS at the Natick Labs website
   The flexible and forgiving recipe for " allows a great number of variants, often simply using what ingredients are at hand. It is often claimed that there are as many recipes as there are cooks in Poland.
   To produce a miniature gourmet look-alike, first choose the pre-dyed clay in the desired colour. Use your palms to soften the clay and roll the clay to the desired shape. Cook the clay in the oven, let the clay cool down in the oven until it is cool enough to be handled again. After it is cooled, take the razor blade and shave off a tiny pile of white powder from chalk. Spray or paint a layer of Varathane sealer. While the sealer is still wet, pick up some of the white chalk powder with your finger tip and dab it sparingly onto a few areas of the clay. The general shape of the model is thereby finished. Lastly, one may utilize different paints and colouring tools to finish the process.
   Next the vegetables are cut up into smaller pieces to allow more surface area for cooking purposes. This can be done by hand or through the use of machines in factories.
  
  Section::::Manufacturing process.:Combining the grains and the vegetables.
  
  The vegetables are then added to the grain mixture in the steam-heated mixture. The exact ratio of grains to vegetables is unique to each company, resulting in different textures and tastes that are produced.
  
  Section::::Manufacturing process.:Mirepoix.
   Marta Gabre-Tsadick, the first woman Senator from Ethiopia and the co-founder of Project Mercy, Inc., a Christian relief organization, adapted the recipe for production in the United States for shipment to Ethiopia and other African countries. During 1985 and 1986, Project Mercy sent 930 tons of atmit to Ethiopia, where World Vision relief workers used it to prepare millions of meals which they distributed among people weakened from the famine.
   Once the manufacturing method has been identified CPM comes into play. This involves CAPE (Computer Aided Production Engineering) or CAP/CAPP (Computer Aided production planning) tools for carrying out factory, plant and facility layout and production simulation e.g. press-line simulation, industrial ergonomics, as well as tool selection management.
  
  Once components are manufactured, their geometrical form and size can be checked against the original CAD data with the use of computer-aided inspection equipment and software.
   During the late 80s, Paré asked a local Morinville, Alberta resident, Jeannette Bachand, for some recipes to include in an upcoming cookbook. The first of Bachand's recipes were published in 1989 after Banchard called Company's Coming for a specific recipe for green tomatoes. There were no recipes for such a thing and was called by Paré for some recipes. When Dinners of the World was being written for release in 1991, Pare asked Blanchard for French Canadian recipes. Four of the recipes are featured in the book, but her name is not due to the company's style.
  
  Section::::List of cookbooks.
   A copy of the recipe, signed by Sanders, is held inside a safe inside a vault in KFC's Louisville headquarters, along with eleven vials containing the herbs and spices. To maintain the secrecy of the recipe, half of it is produced by Griffith Laboratories before it is given to McCormick, who add the second half.
   By separating the product formula from a packaging recipe, a production order can be issued to make and store the cans of soup and later, when the customer is ready to order soup, a work order can be issued to label the cans according to customer specifications before they are shipped to the store. Thus segregation of the formula and pack recipe makes the world of process manufacturing efficient and effective.
  
  Section::::Process manufacturing software.
   In 2007, Malt-O-Meal took part in the "reverse product placement" marketing campaign for "The Simpsons Movie" and packaged one of their cereals, Tootie Frooties, as "Krusty-O's". The cereal was sold in 7-Eleven stores across America along with other "The Simpsons Movie" related products.
  
  In 2007, Malt-O-Meal began construction on their new manufacturing facility in Asheboro, North Carolina. The building, formerly occupied by Unilever Best Foods, became the fourth manufacturing facility for Malt-O-Meal. Operations at the plant began in late 2008.
   Section::::William Esselen.
  
  Dr. William Esselen joined the department in the early 1940s during which time he assisted with the World War II effort by spending two weeks each month as a technical consultant for the War Food Administration. Dr. Esselen directed research on war time food substitutes, canning, and other food preservation methods. He then joined the Quartermaster Corps to assess post war Germany’s food production capabilities.
   Mary Brown's uses the slogans "Made Fresh from Scratch" and "Truly Canadian" in their materials.
  
  "Made Fresh from Scratch" is a reflection of the brand's preparation methods, focusing on fresh rather than frozen chicken and farm fresh potatoes. Menu items are prepared and cooked by hand in each location, always in small batches to ensure peak flavour and juiciness. Mary Brown's frequently uses the word "handcrafted" to express how they prepare their food.
   BULLET::::- Distribution center – warehouse or other specialized building, often with refrigeration or air conditioning, which is stocked with products (goods) to be redistributed to retailers, to wholesalers, or directly to consumers.
  
  BULLET::::- Food processing – set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food or to transform food into other forms for consumption by humans or animals either in the home or by the food processing industry.
  
  BULLET::::- Food additive – substances added to food to preserve flavor or enhance its taste and appearance.
   Some sources say that Mrs. Siems first sold the recipe to the Mrs Cubbison's corporation, and that later she further developed it for wholesale purposes in the General Foods Kitchen.
   KFC Original Recipe
  
  The KFC Original Recipe is a secret mix of ingredients that fast food restaurant chain KFC uses to produce fried chicken.
  
  Section::::History.
  