I make my own spices and they blow away store bought sawdust you get from your local chains spice isle. Since cooking with my own spices, I basically had to relearn how to season things. Everything is easily 3x flavor (1/3rd standard amount required)
Realistically is there any money in this? How should I test the waters without diving head first?
he who controls the spice controls the universe
do you know why the store stuff is low quality compared to yours?
there is always money in good food
are your two sentences related? I am having trouble finding meaning in the first question if it was intended to be rhetorical
Try farmers markets on the weekend, good way to meet rich people and other business owners. Maybe some local restaurants will source from you too
Restaurants have a high barrier to entry due to cottage food sale laws (making stuff out of your house vs a pro kitchen).
The farmers markets aren't a bad idea. I do have a local one that runs every Wednesday in my downtown city center. Its a smaller city mostly college kids. I'd say the farmers market has ehhhh 250 people milling around.
Setup online shop and sell at retarded prices. You can still say you're organic, but just clarify you're not certified organic (bullshit requirements) can do the same for GMO shit.
You're literally autistic.
Honestly making spices takes so many hours (albeit im just waiting around) there is no such thing as a "retarded price". It takes me like - rough estimate - 24 hours to make a 7-8 jars of garlic powder.
Restaurants aren't exactly known for following rules by the books but then again I don't know how it is in your area. Are you in New York State? This is my first time hearing about cottage food laws but apparently it's a thing here
hey thanks for stopping by, /b is not too far you should check that board out and maybe over there.
Its a thing in every state. I am in Florida.
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What's the point of these laws? To fuck over home businesses?
Pretty much.... That and the FDA has a death grip on food industry. Pay your shekels or GTFO.
I wasn't joking though. The intent was very clear and the fact that you're having trouble interpreting it means you're on the spectrum. You should also go back to /reddit/ because what you were directing me to is Zig Forums, not /b.
I'd say try to get loyal customers at the farmers market and then maybe they'll start buying from you outside the farmers market as long as you keep it hush hush. I feel like spices is something you need to scale up to large volume to make money though, because people typically use spices in small quantities. it's not like most people need to buy coriander every week.
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>Restaurants have a high barrier
9 out of 10 chefs aren't worried about getting busted for that black market cardamom.
user I think if you want to sell to local chefs just whip up a simple price list and package some samples. Go around to restaurants between lunch and dinner when there's not a lot of customers and ask whoever you can catch if you can talk to the chef.
if yes->talk to the chef and try to sell him some spices. Give him samples and a price list.
if no->leave the price list and samples for the chef. If your samples look decent they won't get thrown out. The chef will probably get them.
You can put your phone number on the price list, but honestly no one's going to call you. You're going to have to do the rounds again in a week.
Go back you fucking nigger faggot nobody wants you here.
Ya youre probably right about that. I dont think selling local would yield any worth while returns. It would still be a good way to gauge interest and see if its worth pursuing I suppose.
I want to invade India now
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>24 hours to make a 7-8 jars of garlic powder.
what takes 24 hours? are you dehydrating the stuff, then powdering it?
do you grow your own stuff?
Would it be a bad play to put the samples in little spice baggies (like you would get at a bulk spice shop), or should I go for branded packaging/jars
Fucking idiot he’s asking what makes your spices better than those found in the stores already
Many of my things I grow in my garden, I live right outside of farm country so I can and do purchase a lot of stuff from local farmers.
>What's the point of these laws?
these laws give more leeway for people to make shit in their houses and sell it. Otherwise they'd have to abide by the codes restaurants have to follow. Which is more difficult.
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What do you mean by spices? How do you grow them? If it was that easy wouldnt Europeans just have grown them in Europe?
Inb4 Oregano or rosemary or some shit
Nobody is going to buy spices from a /reddit/ autismo you failed to understand that to the point where you posted on an Algerian horseshoe diving forum asking for advice. Kys on livestream.
you could get away with that, but food-grade 1 oz zip-close bags aren't that expensive. They look better and you can stick labels on them, which might be handy for contact info and branding.
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This isn't helping you shake the autism look. Just go back, I'm sure there's plenty of people on /retardit/ that would love to invest in an autistic teenager with a dream.
Generally speaking store stuff sits in a warehouse for a very long time before it makes it to your dish. Fresh food (spices) has way more flavor. Plus god knows what quality ingredients they are using over in the east.
I make hot pepper blends, garlic powders, onion powders, paprika, etc..
Why would Oregano and Rosemary be off limits? They taste great and are good herbs? Obviously people would prefer to use them fresh, but they sell them dried and processed for a reason no?
Ginger and Turmeric (purchased from whole foods) were recent experiments that came out pretty good actually.
no, he's right. you have the 'tism user.
you have to go back