Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 20:22     Subject: Re:Cottage food law
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Depends on the neighbor.

No!!


Have you ever been to a restaurant? Any restaurant?


But restaurants have inspections and laws to follow.


That doesn't mean a thing.


When you go through the reports, there are numerous citations with a promise of a follow up visit. However, the restaurant is allowed to remain open, even with those violations. So, yeah, government is looking out for someone, just not you.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 20:09     Subject: Re:Cottage food law
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Depends on the neighbor.

No!!


Have you ever been to a restaurant? Any restaurant?


But restaurants have inspections and laws to follow.


That doesn't mean a thing.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 20:09     Subject: Cottage food law
Do we need to inspect the nice ladies who bring baked goods to coffee hour at church too? This is bonkers.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 19:58     Subject: Cottage food law
Anonymous wrote:The foods allowed are ones that it would be virtually impossible to contract food poisoning from (dry baked goods.) A cat hair isn't going to kill you like listeria is.


I the PP who said No! As a food safety professional, I understand certain physical contaminants won't kill you but I'd rather not. I built out numerous commercial kitchens and know what it takes to meet code. It's a huge PITA but it's meant to protect public safety. Holding hot soup in a clean bathtub probably won't kill me either but I find the thought extremely off-putting
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 18:52     Subject: Cottage food law
Anonymous wrote:Would you buy food from someone who is subject to cottage food law in Maryland?

https://health.maryland.gov/phpa/OEHFP/OFPCHS/pages/cottagefoods.aspx

From what I understand it is baked goods prepared in a residential setting, so there is no health department inspection or food safety training. It’s just your neighbor selling cookies. There is something similar in Virginia but it requires an inspection, I think.


Would depend entirely on the place.
Same as any place, Big Brother "inspected" or not, there can be dirty people working anywhere.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 18:02     Subject: Cottage food law
Anonymous wrote:I think DCUM is the only place in the world where people won't eat homemade food.


Not true. Most AFrican Americans I know refuse to eat at potlucks, etc. esp at work.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 17:22     Subject: Re:Cottage food law
Anonymous wrote:Of course I would.

For perspective the fda allows about 10,000 additives in our manufactured “food”. If you’re going to worry about cat hair then you might want to stop eating the the titanium in your grocery store bought icing!


Do you think the neighbor is making food without additives?
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 16:44     Subject: Re:Cottage food law
Yes.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 16:42     Subject: Cottage food law
The foods allowed are ones that it would be virtually impossible to contract food poisoning from (dry baked goods.) A cat hair isn't going to kill you like listeria is.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 16:39     Subject: Re:Cottage food law
Of course I would.

For perspective the fda allows about 10,000 additives in our manufactured “food”. If you’re going to worry about cat hair then you might want to stop eating the the titanium in your grocery store bought icing!
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 16:34     Subject: Cottage food law
Anonymous wrote:I would but usually only if I know them in some capacity. Like if it was someone I knew from church or through my kid's school, especially if I'd had food they'd prepared before.

I'd be a lot more wary of buying food like this from a stranger or someone outside my immediate community, because they could do something sketchy and then disappear and there would be no accountability. If it's someone with a reputation who knows other people I know, they will be incentivized not to poison me or do something risky or sketchy because if I got sick or found out, their rep would be ruined.


The world you live in is a dark, dark placer. So glad I don't live there.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 16:27     Subject: Re:Cottage food law
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Depends on the neighbor.

No!!


Have you ever been to a restaurant? Any restaurant?


But restaurants have inspections and laws to follow.


and restaurants have lots of workers who don't always follow the laws.


oook but there is is an inspection by the Health Department, and that worker can/should be fired. That's way different than someone subject to zero laws making food at home. You're really stretching.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 16:24     Subject: Cottage food law
Yeah but you can hit the restaurant up for $
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 16:17     Subject: Re:Cottage food law
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Depends on the neighbor.

No!!


Have you ever been to a restaurant? Any restaurant?


But restaurants have inspections and laws to follow.


and restaurants have lots of workers who don't always follow the laws.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2025 16:15     Subject: Re:Cottage food law
Anonymous wrote:Depends on the neighbor.

No!!


Have you ever been to a restaurant? Any restaurant?


But restaurants have inspections and laws to follow.