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Might be breaking an NDA by posting this but I got invited to the "ebay kitchen beta" and everyone needs to see this
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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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see, one town over, we had a tamale mama doing just that 30 years ago in her house. became a local legend. sold so many tamales that she had to hire people. started a legit tamale factory. pissed off the local department of health guy so much (and he's a republican asshat, refused to do anything during covid but loves to come down on restaurants owned by nonwhite folk) that he personally lobbied the state to get the cottage cooking laws (being laypeople and through the grapevine gossip we just called it the at-home cooking sales laws) changed so it couldn't happen again, but they couldn't shut down our local tamale mama thank the gods. also because of this our tamale mama got citizenship but anyways.
edit: i don't know where the around came from but i'm leaving it. heh, it gets around.
about ten years ago my baker friend got hit HARD when the regs changed. that was right around the time all the bullshit happened and she had to move her operation out of her house, into one of those damned rental kitchens. it's too much work and i'd have to get rid of my cats to do it at home. or remodel and get a second kitchen that the cats don't get to go into. we don't have a large enough orthodox jewish community in our town to have many second kitchen houses available.
One of the things that's pretty universal with Cottage Food laws is the No Meat rule, so the tamales were probably in violation right out of the gate.
If you become so successful that you attract the attention of the authorities, you are probably at the point where you should just become a legit food manufacturer or restaurant.
In my state, there is a $250k limit on earnings for Cottage Food businesses. Then you gotta go legit.
is that earnings, profit, revenue? those are very different numbers
>Gross sales for a cottage food operation must not exceed $250,000 annually.
This is straight from the state's website, so $250K in GROSS sales.
gotcha, revenues. thanks!