How Find Home Cooked Will Work
A plain explanation of how browsing, cooking, and pickup or delivery are designed to work — for the people who will buy, and the people who will cook.
What Find Home Cooked Is
Find Home Cooked is a planned marketplace for finding home-cooked food made by people near you. The idea is to connect neighbors who already cook with neighbors who would rather eat a home-cooked meal than make one themselves — with pickup or delivery from someone nearby, instead of a restaurant chain.
Nothing here is live yet. There is no marketplace to browse, no cook to order from, and nothing for sale today. The sections below describe the plan for how it will work once it opens in an area.
How It Will Work For Someone Buying Food
When Find Home Cooked opens in your area, here is what buying a home-cooked meal is designed to look like.
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Browse what's nearby
You will be able to browse what neighbors near you are cooking, filtered by cuisine, diet, and distance, before deciding what to order.
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Reserve a portion
When you find something you want, you will be able to reserve a portion directly from the cook's listing, at the price the cook has set.
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Pick up or get it delivered
You will choose pickup from the cook or delivery, depending on what that cook offers in your area.
How It Will Work For Someone Who Cooks
If you already cook for people around you, here is the plan for turning that into a listing once Find Home Cooked opens.
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List what you already cook
You will be able to list dishes you already make, rather than inventing a restaurant menu from scratch.
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Set your portions and price
You will set how many portions you are making for a given day, and the price for each portion — you decide both.
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Choose pickup, delivery, or both
You will choose whether buyers can pick up from you, whether you deliver, or both, and which days you are cooking.
What "Cottage Food" Means
Most U.S. states have a category of law, often called a cottage food law, that allows certain foods made in a home kitchen to be sold directly to buyers, usually without the same commercial-kitchen or licensing requirements a restaurant needs.
These rules differ substantially from state to state — including which foods qualify, how much a cook can sell, where sales can happen, and what labeling is required. We are not stating what any specific state allows here, because it varies by state and Find Home Cooked is not a law firm.
What a home cook is allowed to sell depends on where that cook lives. Every cook is responsible for checking their own state's cottage food requirements before listing anything, and Find Home Cooked will only open in an area once we have confirmed how those rules apply there.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Find Home Cooked live yet?
No. Find Home Cooked is not open yet. There are no cooks listed, no food for sale, and no accounts to create today. This page explains how the marketplace is designed to work once it launches.
What is Find Home Cooked?
Find Home Cooked is a planned marketplace for finding home-cooked food made by people near you. The idea is to connect neighbors who already cook with neighbors who would rather eat a home-cooked meal than make one themselves.
How will I order food once it's live?
You will be able to browse what neighbors near you are cooking, reserve a portion directly from the listing, and choose pickup from the cook or delivery, depending on what that cook offers.
How can I sign up to cook?
You will be able to list what you already cook, set how many portions you are making, set your own price, and choose pickup, delivery, or both. Founding cooks can email us now to help shape how this works before launch.
Is it legal to sell food made in a home kitchen?
Most U.S. states have a category of law, often called a cottage food law, that allows certain foods made in a home kitchen to be sold directly to buyers. The rules differ substantially from state to state. What a specific cook is allowed to sell depends on where that cook lives, and every cook is responsible for checking their own state's requirements.
How do I get notified when it launches in my area?
Email lucky@maditech.group to be notified. There is no signup form yet because there is nothing to sign up for — send a note and we will reach out when Find Home Cooked is ready to launch near you.
Want to know when this is live near you?
There's no live marketplace, no accounts, and nothing for sale today. Send us a note and we'll reach out when Find Home Cooked is ready to launch near you.