Can an ideal I in a polynomial ring k[x] over a field be moved by a change of coordinates into a position where it is generated by binomials x a − λx b with λ ∈ k, or by unital binomials (i.e., with λ = 0 or 1)? Can a variety be moved into a position where it is toric? By fibering the G-translates of I over an algebraic group G acting on affine space, these problems are special cases of questions about a family I of ideals over an arbitrary base B. The main results in this general setting are algorithms to find the locus of points in B over which the fiber of I • is contained in the fiber of a second family I ′ of ideals over B;• defines a variety of dimension at least d;• is generated by binomials; or • is generated by unital binomials. A faster containment algorithm is also presented when the fibers of I are prime. The big-fiber algorithm is probabilistic but likely faster than known deterministic ones. Applications include the setting where a second group T acts on affine space, in addition to G, in which case algorithms compute the set of G-translates of I• whose stabilizer subgroups in T have maximal dimension; or • that admit a faithful multigrading by Z r of maximal rank r. Even with no ambient group action given, the final application is an algorithm to• decide whether a normal projective variety is abstractly toric. All of these loci in B and subsets of G are constructible; in some cases they are closed.