Sell from home — by food
Prohibited under traditional cottage laws. Newer exceptions: Texas (SB 541, with DSHS registration), Colorado (HB 26-1033, one TCS category/up to five variations), Oklahoma, Wyoming, Alaska, Arizona and Nebraska allow some TCS foods direct to consumers with added conditions, and California allows prepared meals only under a MEHKO permit.
8 of 51 state frameworks cover refrigerated and custard foods (tcs) for home sellers — this is a temperature-controlled (TCS) category, which is exactly where states draw their hardest lines.
Cheesecake, cream and custard pies, tres leches, banana pudding, tamales and other foods requiring time/temperature control
Alaska · Arizona · Colorado · Nebraska · Oklahoma · Tennessee · Texas · Wyoming
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin. In these states the legal doors are a shared kitchen or a permitted space — the food itself is fine; the home kitchen is the issue.
Don't read the table — run your verdict. Your state × refrigerated and custard foods (tcs) × your channel — one verdict.
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Sources: The 51-jurisdiction home-food dataset on this site (state frameworks named on each state page). Dataset checked October 23, 2026. Where a fee or rule is set by a county or city, this page says so instead of guessing a number.