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The idea seems plausible, but is it something that some random person at home can execute on? The numbers didn't look good.


I guess as soon as the orders start piling in, she could just knock on her neighbors doors and ask them for help baking biscuits?


Yes - in the article, she said she wanted to open a storefront with a bakery about a year later, and they estimated that she would need to sell 90,000 biscuits at $1.50 each to get there.

  $ dc -e '2 k 90000 365 / p'
  246.57
That's a lot of biscuits to make by hand. Let's take it a step further:

  $ dc -e '2 k 245.57 12 / p'
  20.46
If you assume each batch of a dozen takes an hour to make, assume typical kitchen equipment (i.e., no double oven), and assume a little pipelining, she would barely have enough waking hours to get it done. There's no time left for actually packaging or selling the biscuits.


I'm guessing you never baked before, but batches aren't one dozen and you can whip through them in short order. 240 cookies (er, biscuits) would be about 10 cycles if you have two half sheet pans. Depending on chill time (if any) you could knock through it in a regular home oven in three hours fairly easily. With some actual equipment and a helper, it would be half that. Bakeries make ridiculous amounts of baked goods and still time find to sell 'em.


I'm guessing you never baked before...

This discussion is already stupid. No need to make it worse.




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