Cotton Candy business. Add some fluff to your pocket with this colorful business. Business Overview Equipment needed to make cotton candy can be purchased secondhand for as little as $2,000, and starting a part-time business that makes and sells cotton candy is a great little business for enterprising entrepreneurs to tackle. In addition to the cotton candy making equipment, a small trailer converted into a booth for sales will also be required to get the business up and...

Ice Cream Stand business. Keep customers cool on hot summer days with an ice cream stand. Business Overview Like a gourmet french fry stand, and ice cream stand is also an excellent choice for a new business enterprise. You can get started for less than a $10,000 investment and run the business on a part-time or seasonal basis. Good operating locations for an ice cream stand include mall food courts, beach areas or small storefronts on main streets. Additionally, an ice cream...

Cookie Sales business. Get people to line up for your addicting desserts. Business Overview Do your family and friends tell you that you bake the best cookies in town? If so, putting your cookie baking talents to work for you has the potential to make you rich. Mass producing specialty or gourmet cookies is a very easy business to put into action. Simply rent or secure commercial kitchen space, perfect the cookie baking process, design interesting packaging for the cookies, and...

Produce Shop business. Cater to health- and taste-conscious consumers and restaurants by supplying the best produce available. Business Overview The bland produce shops of days gone by with their less-than-appealing display methods, boring interiors and limited product selections are quickly being replaced by what are now called 'Produce Boutiques.' A sheep in wolf's clothing, perhaps, but today's produce shops are specifically catering to consumers that have in large become...

Catering business. Love food? Love people? Bring your interests together with a catering business. Business Overview If you're one of those fearless people who enjoys giving elegant dinner parties, you get rave reviews from guests and your relatives beg to have holidays at your house because of your cooking, then catering might be your cup of tea. As a caterer, you'll plan menus and elegant or playful presentations for everything from company picnics to debutante balls, then...

A new handheld food scanner paired with a smartphone will let users quickly identify the ingredients in their foods, making it easier to avoid allergens, chemicals or unwanted additives. Designed to allow users to make smarter food choices, the device will use a Raman spectrometer, specialized cloud-based algorithm and a smartphone app. Beaming the low-powered laser at the food product in question will cause the food to emit low energy protons, which will then be sorted by...

Ingredients: * 2 average beets boiled * 4 potatoes boiled * 3 pickled cucumbers * 2 carrots boiled * 0.22 lb green peas (optional) * vegetable oil * mayonnaise (optional) * salt to taste Method: Boil all vegetables. Let them cool down and then peel. Chop beets, potatoes, cucumbers, carrots. Add green peas, if you want. Season vegetables with oil or mayonnaise. Add salt to your taste. Vinegret is served as an...

Remember this song... "you can't eat chips in the rain, no matter how hard you try..." - forgot the title, anyway. How about creating waterproof (or at least water-resistant) potato chips? It would also help solve one of the other unsolved challenges of mankind, namely how to safely eat chips in the bathtub. Currently it's high-risk business - the slightest slip of the hand, and those chips are toast (or mush more precisely). The coating (preferrably something edible, not teflon) could...

For those who can't drink any more but, miss the flavor or maybe if you like the flavors but, do not drink, you can drink anything from a liquor store legally if underage or at any age. I would rather not incourage kids to try drinking but, maybe if they tasted it, it might take away the thrill and they wouldn't start to begin with. Some people have health problems but like rum, gin, vodka, beers, or wines, flavor and can't drink the real thing. I would like to taste the flavors...

Imagine: lobster, crab, muscles, oysters, scallops, or other seafoods, deep fried and battered in bite sizes, just right for dipping in cocktail sauce or tarter sauce or your favorite sauce; even catsup. The process would be simple you just compress the oyster or, whatever seafood it is into a small size, batter it with spices, then you deep fry it. Nothing sounds better at mid-night than microwaving a couple dozen crab (Bites) or nuggets, then, in one or two minutes, have your favorite...