How much does recipe testing cost?

Question

I'm curious about the usual per-recipe fee for recipe testing. Anyone know?

I'm hunting some freelance work doing recipe testing and I"m trying to come up with some pricing boundaries. Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

its very expensive. I've worked on two cook book, just as a recipe tester and a prep cook for the photo shoots. and i can only assume that you mean test it for a cook book. first you come up with a recipe then i look at it tell you any problems such as are people going to be able to get the ingredients, or cooking times. then i make the recipe several time doing exactly how the recipe says. then a make changes if their are any to make. now that will take me two hour at least. total cost of me and the food your looking at $60. the there are photo shoots but we won't get into that long annoying process. so if their are company's out there who do this i would say it would cost at least $200.
or you could do it for free by just making friends with a cook and getting them to make it for you

Answer 2

I honestly do not know the answer to that, but if you'd like to e-mail me the recipe, I'd be more than happy to try it and let you know if it's great or what could be done to improve it. I'm not expecting to get any points here, just wanting to help a fellow cooking fan! Have a great day!