Do you enjoy spending time in the kitchen? Do you love trying out new recipes and challenging your culinary skills? Do you regularly get complimented on your cooking?
If the answer to these is yes, consider this question: is it time you turned your passion for cooking into an income? It could be easier than you think to make money from a love of cooking. Here are just a few different ways in which you can earn money by channelling your love of cooking.
Start a food blog
A food blog could be a great place for sharing recipes of meals and cooking tips. It could also potentially be an income stream. How do you make money from a blog? By displaying adverts and taking in advertising revenue every time someone clicks on these adverts. You’ll generally need to be getting a certain amount of monthly readers first before you can start making money through advertising. Sponsored blog content is another way in which you can potentially make money – which could include getting paid to review sauces, seasonings, kitchen tools and other culinary products.
Write a recipe book
You could also share a few of your favourite home recipes in the form of a recipe book. This could be sold as a physical book or an e-book. E-books are generally less costly to publish, however a physical book could be easier to sell locally. Recipe books are very popular, however it is a competitive market, so be prepared to invest in plenty of marketing for your recipe book
Set up a cookery YouTube channel
Via a YouTube channel, you could even create videos in which you provide step-by-step instructions on how to cook recipes. Succeed in getting lots of views on these videos, and you can then consider monetising your videos. This involves displaying adverts on your videos – you then get paid a small amount every time someone clicks on these adverts. You can also monetise your videos by sponsoring products in your videos. This could include food products or kitchen tools.
Launch a food product
It may also be possible to make money by selling your own unique food products. Such a food product could be anything from cakes to homemade hot sauce. You could consider mass producing your product and even designing your own packaging such as bottles with custom vinyl sticker printing. Such products could be sold through a website, via a market stall or via local stores.
Open a restaurant
Finally, there’s the option of opening your own restaurant. This doesn’t have to be a fine dining restaurant. In fact it doesn’t even have to be a brick and mortar restaurant at all. Instead, you could explore cheaper options that require less commitment such as a food truck or a ghost kitchen. You could even start by setting up your own catering service for events. This allows you to keep your running costs low to begin with. Make sure to choose a restaurant theme that matches your cooking passions.
