If you cook those cookie's, don't sell it.....

[Oldpath05]

I just saw a news story that really grinds my gears! I guess there's some farmer's housewifes in Wisconsin that wants to make snacks and sell to the public but can't because it's against a bureaucratic law, it's brought up in state government and was passed twice to bring it to a full house vote, but got shot down everytime by this guy>> house speaker Robin J. Vos<< a typical politician, he's concerned more with big bakery companies like the Hostess with the mostest and their twinkies, why because he has financial ties to Popcorn and other snack Co. says he's looking out for his constituencies, guess housewife's that try's to make a dollar dont count.

 

[smstonypoint]

Here's a listing of cottage food laws by state:Cottage Food Laws By State: How To Sell Your Homemade Foods.

http://blogs.harvard.edu/foodpolicyinitiative/files/2013/08/FINAL_Cottage-Food-Laws-Report_2013.pdf has more detail on the various state laws as of 2013. I like this quote from that paper.

As was noted by Michigan State Representative Pam Byrnes, allowing the production of cottage foods is "a win‐win situation -- residents looking to launch a startup business will have an easier time setting up shop, and consumers looking for delicious homemade items for their families will have more options."

Steve

 

[SJay]

 

[Oldpath05]

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Jezz that was funny, I clicked on that post in a series state of mind so I could see it, starting reading, got to the last picture, funny, but isn't that the truth..:thumbsup:

 

[Oldpath05]

(As was noted by Michigan State Representative Pam Byrnes, allowing the production of cottage foods is "a win‐win situation -- residents looking to launch a startup business will have an easier time setting up shop, and consumers looking for delicious homemade items for their families will have more options.")

Lot of reading there in those links but that part you posted sounds good to me. I think more people are getting back to the homemade idea, all those unpronounceable ingredients in snack food cant be doing us any good. 40 50 years ago there was a donut shop in every town up here, now lucky to see one in any town, when you do it's busy, I'll take a fresh homemade donut over a twinkie any day, we just need government to help not hinder.

Far as I know Me. seems to help or did, they let me sell maple syrup 20 years ago, just had to have a state inspector look over my evaporator, hot&cold water, minor stuff that a house should have anyways. I wouldn't want to buy maple syrup from someone who sodded galvanized sheet metal together with lead solder, I ate enough lead from the house paint growing up in the 60s.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I would like to try those cookies out before I proffer an opinion...

 

[polo1665]

It seems that Wisconsin's cottage food laws are pretty restrictive. I baked bread out of my home, and sold it to a local Restaurant here in Ohio for a few years. Looks like that would have been a definite no-no in Wisconsin.

 

[teejk]

It seems that Wisconsin's cottage food laws are pretty restrictive. I baked bread out of my home, and sold it to a local Restaurant here in Ohio for a few years. Looks like that would have been a definite no-no in Wisconsin.

We have long tried to be as statist as California...keeps a lot of bureaucrats employed.

 

[PILOON]

My concern is what are the sanitary conditions in that home bakery as not all folks are all that clean.
Did that lady decide to use up her outdated, sour or fermented components to give away?
Most housewives keep a clean tidy kitchen but over the years I have seen a few shocking practices.

 

[teejk]

My concern is what are the sanitary conditions in that home bakery as not all folks are all that clean.
Did that lady decide to use up her outdated, sour or fermented components to give away?
Most housewives keep a clean tidy kitchen but over the years I have seen a few shocking practices.

My sister used to serve me stuff she made from her "easy bake oven" that she got for Christmas...we are talking about the common cookies...seems to me that unless the kitchen was recently used to sacrifice chickens there is little to go wrong with a common cookie.

We are finally looking at licensing reform in this state after decades of restrictions that seem to be largely "protectionist" in nature (I remember when we couldn't even buy margarine here and when we finally could it could not be colored like butter...had to be white). We are the birthplace of the "progressive movement" where state control rules over common sense (and as is common in such systems cronyism is a dirty little secret). This might be one of them.

 

[California]

Funny story - my aunt in Berkeley California told me the parents could no longer take home-cooked food to the annual PTA fundraiser by order of the Berkeley City Council. (A known bunch of lunatics -but wait):

This ordinance was passed after mass food poisoning at a similar event. It really was a public safety measure.

 

[teejk]

Funny story - my aunt in Berkeley California told me the parents could no longer take home-cooked food to the annual PTA fundraiser by order of the Berkeley City Council. (A known bunch of lunatics -but wait):

This ordinance was passed after mass food poisoning at a similar event. It really was a public safety measure.

I understand that entirely when it comes to canned foods and such where the instructions were ignored (they are spelled out in most recipes and tend to err on the side of caution with result of lessening the flavor and nutrition, not unlike newer slow cookers)...but a common cookie?

 

[California]

You ever been to a Unitarian Potluck?

(Insider joke).

Essentially some people try to bring more exotic stuff than anyone else. Maybe Reindeer or Llama meat, fried insects, poi, whatever they can use as the basis for boasting about exotic travel. I expect a potluck in Berkeley, even a public schools benefit, would be similar.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

You ever been to a Unitarian Potluck?

(Insider joke).

Essentially some people try to being more exotic stuff than anyone else. Maybe Reindeer or Llama meat, fried insects, poi, whatever they can use as the basis for boasting about exotic travel. I expect a potluck in Berkeley, even a public schools benefit, would be similar.

Oh man. I once went to a Unitarian function with my sister and her family (it was potluck). I remember thinking to myself, "what's with all the random food?"! That's hilarious! I never knew that was a Unitarian propensity.

 

[teejk]

You ever been to a Unitarian Potluck?

(Insider joke).

Essentially some people try to being more exotic stuff than anyone else. Maybe Reindeer or Llama meat, fried insects, poi, whatever they can use as the basis for boasting about exotic travel. I expect a potluck in Berkeley, even a public schools benefit, would be similar.

Andrew Zimmern has a whole show on that stuff...not for me but I've never been much on the newer peppers that make my head explode nor a fan of the once fad of gut-wrenching horseradish concoctions nor do I bother with the various mushrooms growing wild in my yard. We are talking about the common cookie! Forget that Berkeley cookies might have some greenish plant material in them that make you want to order a pizza while you stare at your ceiling fan and talk to the cat you don't have...

 

[prichard]

From the title I thought you were talking about "special" cookies.

 

[PILOON]

We are talking about the common cookie! Forget that Berkeley cookies might have some greenish plant material in them that make you want to order a pizza while you stare at your ceiling fan and talk to the cat you don't have...

Berkeley cookies=====LOL

What I refer to is some gal that uses maybe rancid lard or fruit that she scraped the mold off of or meat pies that she peeled off the green stuff and just recently maybe used up that flour that has a listeria recall, shucks after all you can't waste food that you paid good $$s for. Shucks it was cooked, was it not and heat kills germs???
Not everybody, but some think like that.
Nah, I'll stick to store bought or what my wife cooks.

 

[teejk]

We are talking about the common cookie! Forget that Berkeley cookies might have some greenish plant material in them that make you want to order a pizza while you stare at your ceiling fan and talk to the cat you don't have...

Berkeley cookies=====LOL

What I refer to is some gal that uses maybe rancid lard or fruit that she scraped the mold off of or meat pies that she peeled off the green stuff and just recently maybe used up that flour that has a listeria recall, shucks after all you can't waste food that you paid good $$s for. Shucks it was cooked, was it not and heat kills germs???
Not everybody, but some think like that.
Nah, I'll stick to store bought or what my wife cooks.

I think you are describing people that went through the Great depression era...these days those cookies are likely baked in over-priced Viking ovens using over-priced Williams Sonoma cookware...and the baker probably sanitized her/his hands and prep areas several times. All that said...do you ever wonder what happens to your food in a restaurant where you can't monitor the "10 second rule"?

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Andrew Zimmern has a whole show on that stuff...not for me but I've never been much on the newer peppers that make my head explode nor a fan of the once fad of gut-wrenching horseradish concoctions nor do I bother with the various mushrooms growing wild in my yard. We are talking about the common cookie! Forget that Berkeley cookies might have some greenish plant material in them that make you want to order a pizza while you stare at your ceiling fan and talk to the cat you don't have...

You make that sound like it's a bad thing...:licking:

 

[Oldpath05]

Whenever I go to potluck, I always ask my wife what'd she bring and that's what I have. As far home cooking cookies, anyone could get a bad batch of eggs or something and not know it, if eggs go bad, bad food can come from big companies also. In Me. we have state inspectors that go around annually to home base cookie cookers, small home style restaurants, donut makers and dairy farms that sell whole milk......me, I like the home cooked donuts vs prefab Dunkin Donuts.