Lesson #3: Preparing Your Cottage Food Business For Validation

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Take a food safety course

1. Sign up for Square

• Click here to sign up and get your free credit card reader shipped today
• Square account demo video:

2. Take a food safety course

• Click here to take 360 Training’s Learn 2 Serve food handlers course (only $7 in most states)
• Note: check your state’s law to make sure it doesn’t require a more specific food safety course

3. Prepare your kitchen

• Kitchen scale
  • Ozeri Digital Kitchen Scale
• Cutting boards
  • OXO Good Grips Carving & Cutting Board
  • Dexas Grippmat Flexible Cutting Boards (set of 4)
• Instant-read thermometers
  • Thermapen Mk4
  • ThermoPop
• Fridge & oven thermometers
  • Rubbermaid Refrigerator/Freezer Thermometer
  • Rubbermaid Oven/Grill/Smoker Thermometer
  • ThermoWorks Fridge Alarms
  • ThermoWorks Cooking Alarms
• Spatulas
  • Di Oro Spatula
  • Di Oro Spatula 3-Piece Set

About This Video

This lesson is focused on getting prepared to sell your homemade food, and why you should start selling sooner than you think!

Here are the topics I cover in this video:

• The validation game plan
• Story of how I was unprepared when starting my fudge business
• About Square and why I recommend them
• Which credit card reader to get
• Why and how to take a food safety course
• How to prepare your kitchen for production
• Things an inspector might look for in a kitchen inspection
• Recommended kitchen products for safety and consistency

This is the 3rd lesson in Forrager’s free mini course. If you have not signed up for the course and would like to see the other lessons, you can sign up here.