Things to Think About: Most recipe development requests come to us in the form of a home-cooked or stove-top style recipe. We ask that you do not set your stove-top product side by side with the sample our company provides for several reasons. The primary reason is that in order to keep our customers prices as low as possible, Backwoods Food Mfg., Inc. purchases spices, tomato products, vegetables, oils, sugars, and any other inventory item in large bulk from industrial suppliers. These items will carry a different flavor profile than those purchased in a grocery store or from a food-service provider.

Another reason is that unless your product is currently on the market, the end consumer will not be looking for any difference in flavor between your stove-top recipe and our manufacturing formula as they will not know what your stove-top recipe would taste like. If the product is very close, the consumer will likely enjoy that product as much as you currently enjoy your home-made product.

A third reason is that in the manufacturing process, these recipes will need to be graduated from your stove-top recipe to our 40 to 60 gallon recipe. All ingredients are not linear in nature and Backwoods Food Mfg., Inc. will make every effort to graduate the formula from your stove-top recipe to our sample batch, then to the manufacturing level as accurately as possible. Sometimes there are unavoidable and minor variances in flavor that will occur during this process. It is often virtually impossible to get a manufactured product to taste exactly like it does in your kitchen, so please do not keep a wonderful product from the market just because the flavor is not identical to what you would make at home.