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A bakery can be run from the
home, but has some very specific requirements. You
need to have a separate kitchen for the bakery, and
separate equipment. Licensing is an issue, and
varies from state to state, and even county to
county.
This requires several hours a
day that need to be run on a dedicated schedule. It
does not mean you cannot do this with children
around, just that you probably would need to hire
help, and that it would not be the ideal option for
someone with infants in the home.
Along with the bakery, are
other food packaging businesses which involve
handling ingredients. You can set up a kitchen to
just handle mixing ingredients, but not for baking,
as in spice mixes, bakery mixes, etc. You can also
set one up for repackaging such things as herbs.
People have set up a kitchen to bottle sauces, or
make candy. Each of these variations requires
different equipment, different space, and different
licensing or handling requirements. Common to all
though, is that this room must be separated from
the rest of the house.
When we lived in two
single-wide mobile homes that had been joined
together, we investigated setting up a bakery in
one of the kitchens. We could have separated the
kitchen from the rest of the house with kitchen
cupboards, above and below, leaving an opening
between so that we could still see the rest of the
house as needed. The door between the kitchen and
the rest of the house was planned as a half door,
again, so we could see over it. This would have
suited our circumstances at the time. We chose not
to do it because we did not want to incur the $5000
debt that we would have needed in order to start
up. Other situations where this is a natural are
when you have a property, like a duplex that has
been joined, or a home with a garage apartment,
where you already have a second kitchen, or where
you have a logical place and the funds to build on
a kitchen.
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