How Much Should You Sell Dumplings For? (2026 Pricing Guide)

Your friends have been eating your dumplings at every potluck for years. Now a coworker wants two bags for her freezer, and you have no idea whether to say $10 or $30.

Most answers online give a vague range and move on. This guide builds your price from numbers checked on September 30, 2026: what dumpling shops charge per piece, what a batch costs at Walmart, what your time and a rented kitchen add, and what card fees take from each bag. It also covers the part most pricing guides skip, which is whether you can legally sell the dumplings you are pricing.

How Much Should You Sell Dumplings For?

We recommend about $1 a frozen dumpling: $20 for a 20-count bag and $12 for a dozen. For a bag of 50, charge $45 for vegetable dumplings made at home and $48 for pork or chicken from a rented kitchen. Pork and shrimp dumplings cost more to make, so we suggest $24 for 20, still under the $1.81 to $2.17 a dumpling that United Dumplings charges for its pork and shrimp shumai, and the $1.67 to $2.17 that shops charge for all-shrimp bags. If you sell cooked dumplings at an event, a plate of 6 for $10 is a fair start.

Here is a price ladder most part-time dumpling vendors can start from:

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The ladder is our recommendation. It is built from shop prices checked September 30, 2026 (Dumpling Haus $20 for 20 pork, chicken or vegan dumplings, United Dumplings $13 to $30 for 30 or 60 everyday dumplings, Steamies $39.99 for 48), one dumpling vendor's published cost breakdown, and the cost build further down. The $24 pork and shrimp bag is our cost-plus number, not a shop price: United Dumplings sells its pork and shrimp shumai for $1.81 to $2.17 a dumpling, and the shops in the table below charge $1.67 to $2.17 for all-shrimp bags. If you pay kitchen rent, price the 50 bag at $48 (see the pack table further down).

Three numbers back the $1 starting point:

• The shops. Everyday frozen bags (pork, chicken, vegetable or beef) from three dumpling shops ran $0.43 to $1.00 a dumpling. The one with a farmers market pickup charged exactly $1.00.
• Your supplies. Each pork and cabbage dumpling takes about $0.24 of ingredients, so a $20 bag carries $4.74 of food.
• Your kitchen. In California, Texas, Wyoming and North Dakota, frozen pork dumplings come out of a rented or licensed kitchen, and one dumpling vendor put her shared kitchen rent at $0.35 a dumpling.

If you make pierogi, the Polish dumpling, start with the companion guide on how to sell pierogies from home, which covers the frozen pierogi rules, fillings and packaging. This guide covers the Asian-style dumplings, potstickers and wontons most people mean by "dumplings," with the prices and the math.

What Do Dumpling Shops Charge Right Now?

On September 30, 2026, three dumpling shops that post prices online sold everyday frozen dumplings (pork, chicken, vegetable or beef) for $0.43 to $1.00 a piece, and shrimp, shumai, wagyu and gluten-free bags for $1.33 to $2.17. Bigger bags usually cost less per dumpling, and soup dumplings (the kind with broth inside) run $0.90 to $1.30, more than the same shop's plain pork ones.

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We loaded every frozen dumpling listing in each shop's full online catalog on September 30, 2026: 39 priced bags, counting each filling and size once (14 at Dumpling Haus, 22 at United Dumplings, 3 at Steamies), with a middle (median) price of $1.00 a dumpling. We left out buns, spring rolls, noodles and sauces, United's cooked catering trays and its mixed bundles, and one Dumpling Haus fish bag that was sold out. Shipping, delivery fees and tax are not included. Steamies notes that shipping frozen dumplings takes 10 to 15 pounds of dry ice, which is why its shipping is not free.

What this tells you:

• $1.00 is the top for an everyday pork, chicken, vegetable or beef bag. Dumpling Haus charges it, and it is the one shop in the table that lists a farmers market pickup. Shrimp, shumai, wagyu and gluten-free bags run $1.33 to $2.17, and crab and pork soup dumplings $1.30.
• Bigger bags usually cost less per dumpling. United's pork dumplings go from $0.60 in a bag of 30 to $0.50 in a bag of 60, and 9 of its 11 frozen dumplings cost less per piece in the bigger bag. The two exceptions are crab and pork soup dumplings ($1.30 either way) and Korean BBQ beef ($0.43 in the bag of 30, $0.50 in the bag of 60).
• Restaurant scale pulls everyday prices down. United Dumplings sells a pork dumpling for as little as $0.50 in its bag of 60 and a Korean BBQ beef dumpling for $0.43 in its bag of 30, and it also runs three restaurants. A one-person kitchen should not try to match that. The same business also has the highest prices in the set: $2.17 for shrimp dumplings and shumai in a bag of 12.

What Do Grocery Store Dumplings Cost?

At Walmart on September 30, 2026, frozen 6-packs of soup dumplings and shumai cost $0.81 to $0.98 a piece, and 24-ounce bags of potstickers and mandu cost 24.5 to 26.6 cents an ounce. That is the price your customer sees in the freezer case before they see yours.

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Prices from Walmart.com's default store, checked September 30, 2026. They change by store and by week. The potsticker and mandu listings give a weight, not a count, so we did not turn them into a price per dumpling.

Here is how to use those numbers:

• The small-pack brands sit near $1. A 6-pack of name-brand soup dumplings or shumai costs $0.81 to $0.98 a piece. Your $1 handmade dumpling is right next to it.
• The big bags are much cheaper. A 24-ounce bag of potstickers for $6.38 is the budget shopper's option. You will not win that customer on price, so do not chase them.
• Your pitch is the fold, not the price. Handmade wrappers, a filling you can name, and a bag made this week are why someone pays $20 for 20.

Which Dumplings Can You Sell Legally, and Through Which Route?

In the four states in this guide, you can sell frozen pork dumplings only from a licensed kitchen (chicken from home only in Wyoming and North Dakota, from birds you raise yourself), and frozen vegetable dumplings from home only in Texas, Wyoming and North Dakota. The reason is that no home route in the four states allows frozen pork dumplings: the cottage food rules leave out meat, with narrow exceptions such as poultry you raise yourself, and California's home restaurant permit rules out frozen bags, because the Los Angeles County home restaurant FAQ says the food must be made and served on the same day. Vegetable dumplings are limited too, because of food safety. The FDA Food Code, the FDA's model food safety code for restaurants and stores, calls a food "time and temperature control for safety" when it has to stay cold (or hot) to keep germs from growing. That list includes any raw or cooked meat, any cooked plant food, and cut leafy greens, and the Code names cabbage as a leafy green. Almost every dumpling filling hits at least one of those.

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We checked each rule on September 30, 2026: the FDA Food Code 2022, 9 CFR 303.1 and 381.10, the California Department of Public Health cottage food list (last reviewed April 2026), the Los Angeles County and San Diego County home restaurant FAQs, the Texas Department of State Health Services cottage food page, Wyoming statute 11-49-103 and North Dakota Century Code 23-09.5-02. Verify your state's current rules before you sell.

For pork and beef dumplings, the federal rule matters too. Under 9 CFR 303.1(d), USDA inspection does not apply to grinding, freezing and cooking meat products at a retail store or restaurant that sells in normal retail quantities to consumers. For a retail store, the rule adds that it sells to consumers only, that at least 75% of its meat product sales by dollar value go to household consumers, that its sales to anyone else stay under a yearly dollar limit USDA sets, and that it uses only federally or state inspected meat. Chicken is poultry, so chicken dumplings fall under USDA's separate poultry rule, 9 CFR 381.10(d), which sets the same kind of retail store limits: sales to consumers only, at least 75% to household consumers, and only inspected poultry. A licensed kitchen that sells bags straight to household customers may fit that, but whether a shared kitchen counts as a retail-type store is up to USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service and your state meat inspection office, so ask them before you sell meat dumplings. Selling cases of pork dumplings to grocery stores and restaurants can mean you need an inspected plant, so ask your state meat inspection office before you quote a wholesale price.

The general rules are in the guide to what cottage food laws say about foods that need cold holding, and California's home restaurant permit is explained in MEHKO laws explained.

What Does One Dumpling Cost You to Make?

A pork and cabbage dumpling with homemade wrappers costs about $0.24 in ingredients, using Walmart.com prices on September 30, 2026. That is for a batch of 48 from one published recipe (Mama Loves to Cook's Chinese dumplings), which uses 3 cups of flour, 1 cup of water, 1 pound of ground pork and 1 pound of napa cabbage.

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We loaded each price on Walmart.com (default store) on September 30, 2026. Flour is weighed at 120 grams a cup, King Arthur Baking's figure. We counted the whole napa head and the whole green onion bunch, so a batch that uses leftovers costs a little less. Freezer bags, labels, gas and electricity are not included.

Two things stand out:

• Pork and cabbage are 79% of the cost. The pork at $4.61 and the cabbage at $4.37 add up to $8.98 of the $11.37 batch.
• Homemade wrappers cost almost nothing. Three cups of flour are 38 cents for 48 wrappers. The cost of homemade wrappers is your time, which the next sections price in.

Packaging adds a little on top. A Great Value quart freezer bag costs about 6 cents (50 for $3.12), which holds a bag of 20.

How Do Pork, Chicken, Shrimp and Vegetable Fillings Compare?

With the same wrappers and seasonings, a chicken dumpling costs about $0.22, a tofu and mushroom dumpling $0.23, a pork and cabbage dumpling $0.24 and a pork and shrimp dumpling $0.28. Switching from napa to green cabbage is the biggest single saving on the list.

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Walmart.com default store prices on September 30, 2026: All Natural ground chicken 1 lb $3.84, Azumaya firm tofu 16 oz $2.22, white mushrooms 8 oz $2.04, Great Value small raw peeled shrimp 12 oz $6.76, green cabbage $2.29 a head (75 cents a pound), counted whole like the napa. Everything else is the base recipe above.

So why charge the same $20 for pork, chicken and tofu? Because the folding takes the same time, and the ingredient gap is a few cents a dumpling. A single price for your three everyday fillings keeps the menu simple, and customers mix bags without doing math. Shrimp is the exception: it adds about 5 cents a dumpling in cost and customers expect to pay more for it, so we recommend $24 for a bag of 20 pork and shrimp dumplings. That $1.20 a dumpling is our cost-plus number, not a shop price. The closest shop product, United Dumplings' pork and shrimp shumai, costs more: $1.81 to $2.17 a piece. All-shrimp bags at the shops above cost more too: $1.67 at Dumpling Haus and $1.81 to $2.17 at United Dumplings.

How Much Should Your Time Add to the Price?

At $15 an hour, your time adds about $0.31 to every dumpling, which is more than the ingredients. The recipe used here lists 1 hour of prep for 48 dumplings, and at $15 an hour that is $15 divided by 48.

Folding is the slow part of a dumpling business. Here is what an hour of your time adds at different pay rates and speeds:

• 48 an hour at $15 an hour: $0.31 a dumpling, or $6.25 per 20-count bag.
• 48 an hour at $20 an hour: $0.42 a dumpling, or $8.33 per 20-count bag.
• 32 an hour at $15 an hour: $0.47 a dumpling.

Those speeds count the whole job: the recipe's 1 hour for 48 covers the dough, the filling and the folding. Folding alone goes faster once your hands learn it. Candy Hom, a working dumpling vendor, timed herself at 175 potstickers an hour.

One real vendor's numbers show how tight this gets. In a January 2025 post, Candy Hom broke down the cost of a $1 dumpling at her frozen dumpling drops: $0.20 in ingredients, $0.02 in packaging and labels, $0.35 in shared kitchen rent and $0.10 in processing fees (Hotplate's fee plus card processing, which she pays herself instead of passing on), for a total of $0.67. She figured her pay at $14.77 an hour.

How Much Does Kitchen Rent Change Your Price?

Kitchen rent at $0.35 a dumpling cuts what a $20 bag of 20 pays you from about $34 an hour to about $18 an hour. That is why a vendor paying kitchen rent should not go below $1 a dumpling on bags of 20 or smaller, or below $48 for a bag of 50.

Here is the math on one bag of 20 pork and cabbage dumplings sold online through Homegrown:

• Start with the price. The customer pays $20.
• Take out ingredients and the bag. $4.74 of ingredients and a 6-cent freezer bag leave $15.20.
• Take out the card fee. 2.9% + $0.30 on $20 is $0.88, which leaves $14.32.
• Divide by your time. 20 dumplings at 48 an hour is 25 minutes, so $14.32 is about $34 an hour for your work.
• Now add rent. At $0.35 a dumpling, rent on 20 dumplings is $7.00. That leaves $7.32, or about $18 an hour.

A kitchen does not bill you by the dumpling, so your real number depends on how many bags you fold per rented hour. Candy Hom's $0.35 is one vendor's average, not a rate you will be quoted. The guide on how to find and rent a commissary kitchen covers how kitchens bill and what to ask before you sign.

If you are figuring out whether a paid pickup day covers your kitchen time, a Homegrown storefront for your dumpling pre-orders lets customers pay for their bags of dumplings before you book the kitchen, so you rent the hours you already sold.

Should You Sell Bags of 20, Bags of 50 or a Dozen?

Make the bag of 20 your main product, offer 50 for regulars, and use a dozen as a first taste. Among your everyday fillings, the bag of 20 pays the best per hour once rent is counted, and it matches what Dumpling Haus sells at its farmers market.

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Pork and cabbage filling at $0.24 a dumpling unless noted, quart freezer bags at 6 cents (a gallon bag for the 50), Homegrown card processing at 2.9% + $0.30, and 48 dumplings an hour. The $0.35 rent is Candy Hom's published average. Our math, September 30, 2026.

The 50 bag is the one to watch. At $45 it pays about $30 an hour with no rent, but only about $13 an hour once you add $0.35 a dumpling of rent. If you rent a kitchen, price the 50 bag at $48, which pays about $16 an hour with rent, and offer it to regulars who order every month, so you know the batch will sell.

How Much Should Cooked Dumplings Cost at an Event?

Charge about $1.67 a dumpling for cooked dumplings, sold as a plate of 6 for $10. That is the example price Candy Hom used for a pop-up in her January 2025 cost breakdown, and the extra 67 cents over a frozen dumpling pays for the host's 20% cut, two paid workers, the permit, and containers and sauce.

Hot food at an event brings costs a frozen bag sold at pickup does not:

• A permit for each event. The FDA Food Code calls a stand at a single event of no more than 14 days a "temporary food establishment." Candy Hom paid $105 per pop-up. Texas works differently at farmers markets: one permit covers cold- or hot-held food that is not cottage food, frozen meat dumplings included. It lasts at least a year and costs no more than $100 a year, whether the state or a local health department issues it. Cottage foods, including registered vegetable dumplings, need no permit at markets the state health department oversees.
• A cut for the host. Candy Hom's breakdown gave the pop-up host 20% of sales.
• A second pair of hands. Frying, plating and taking payment at once takes two people. Her breakdown counts 2 workers at $15 an hour for the day.
• Containers and sauce. She puts these at 5 cents a dumpling.

With all of that, her pop-up costs came to $1.19 a dumpling, leaving $0.48 of a $1.67 dumpling. In California, a home restaurant permit is the one route in this guide that lets you sell cooked pork dumplings from your own kitchen, up to 30 meals a day, but not at farmers markets or events. For the hot-food setup at a market table, the spring rolls at farmers markets guide covers a similar hand-folded product.

What Do Card Fees Take From a $20 Bag?

Card processing takes $0.67 to $0.96 from a $20 bag of dumplings, or 3 to 5 cents a dumpling, and Hotplate adds a $1.55 platform fee that your customer pays by default. On a single $1 dumpling sold online, the processing fee is about 33 cents, a third of your price, which is why dumplings sell by the bag.

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We checked these on each company's pricing or fee page on September 30, 2026: findhomegrown.com/signup, hotplate.com/pricing plus Hotplate's own post on its default fee setting, and Square's fee help page for the Free plan. One $20 bag per order. Processing is figured on the $20 bag, except Hotplate's default row: Hotplate's own post says processing is 2.9% "of the transaction" plus 30 cents, so we figured it on the $21.55 checkout. Fees on tips, tax and delivery are left out.

What the table means for a dumpling vendor:

• Hotplate's default puts its fee on your customer. Hotplate's pricing page says you can pay the 5% + $0.55 yourself or pass it on, and its own post says 80% of its sellers keep the default, which adds $1.55 to a $20 bag at checkout.
• Square tapped in person is the cheapest per order. At $0.67 on a $20 bag it beats every online option, but the customer has to be standing in front of you.
• On annual billing, Homegrown costs more than Square online until about 125 bags a month (about 156 on monthly billing). At 50 bags a month you pay $54.00 on Homegrown with annual billing against $48.00 on Square online. Homegrown saves 8 cents a bag on processing, so the $10 subscription evens out at 125 bags.

How Do You Know How Many Bags to Fold Before Pickup Day?

Take paid orders for a set pickup day, count them by filling, then buy the pork and book the kitchen. A batch of 48 is $11.37 of ingredients before anyone pays, and in a rented kitchen every unsold bag of 20 is also $7 of rent you cannot get back.

That is the job a Homegrown storefront does for a dumpling vendor. It is $10 per month billed annually (or $12.50 billed monthly) with no percentage fees beyond standard payment processing, and it gives you one link where customers pick pork, chicken or tofu, choose a bag of 20 or 50, pay, and see when to pick up. The night before your kitchen shift, you open your orders and see exactly how many bags of each filling to fold.

How that compares to what dumpling vendors usually use:

• Hotplate has no monthly subscription and you pay 2.9% + $0.30 processing, but by default your customer pays 5% + $0.55 on top of your price, so a $20 bag costs them $21.55. Candy Hom uses it for her frozen dumpling drops, and timed drops are a feature Homegrown does not offer.
• Square's Free plan has no subscription and charges 2.6% + 15¢ on a tapped card, the lowest in the table above. Online it charges 3.3% + 30¢, which is $0.96 on a $20 bag against $0.88 on Homegrown.
• Instagram messages and cash at pickup cost nothing until someone who ordered three bags does not show, and you are holding 60 dumplings and a morning of folding.

What a Homegrown storefront does for a dumpling vendor:

• Pre-orders paid up front, so every bag you fold is already sold.
• A size option for each bag (20 or 50), each with its own price, all under one listing, so customers see the lower price per dumpling on the 50.
• Pickup days and windows you set, like Saturday from 9 to 11 at the kitchen door or your market table.
• Every order in one list, so you know which regulars buy a bag of 50 every month.

What it does not do: it will not get you a kitchen or a permit, it will not keep your bags frozen, it has no timed drop or countdown release, and customers create a Homegrown account to place their first order. Your storefront shows up on the Homegrown marketplace, but plan on most dumpling orders coming from people you send to your own link. If a paid pickup day beats guessing how many bags to fold, you can set up your storefront and post your dumpling menu this week. The setup for a weekly pickup day is in the guide on how to take pre-orders for your food business.

What Do Homegrown Vendors Charge for Dumplings?

Only one Homegrown vendor listed dumplings on September 30, 2026, with a $30 dumpling listing and a dozen pierogi for $15, or $1.25 each. The dumpling listing offers pork, chicken, beef or shrimp but gives no count, so a shopper cannot tell what $30 buys.

Two lessons come out of those two listings:

• Put the count in the name. "Pork Dumplings, Bag of 20" answers the first question every customer has. A price with no count makes people message you or scroll past.
• Almost no dumpling sellers yet. With 2 dumpling listings in a catalog of 2,762 products, a dumpling vendor who posts clear bags and prices has one other dumpling seller on Homegrown. That is not a promise of orders from the marketplace; most orders will still come from people you send to your link.

If you sell from a licensed kitchen and want to ship frozen bags beyond your pickup area, the comparison of dry ice and gel packs for frozen food covers what keeps a bag frozen in transit. Home routes are narrower: Texas cottage food sold online has to be delivered in person by you, an employee or a household member, and Wyoming home food sales have to stay inside Wyoming.

How Much Can You Make Selling Dumplings in a Month?

Selling 40 bags of 20 at $20 a month brings in $800 and leaves about $563 before kitchen rent, or about $283 after it. That works out to roughly $34 an hour of work without rent and $17 an hour with it.

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Our math from the cost build above, September 30, 2026. It leaves out permits, labels, gas, electricity, sales tax and any market booth fee. A home route with no rent means a vegetable dumpling sold under Texas, Wyoming or North Dakota rules; frozen pork dumplings need the rented kitchen column. Both columns use the pork and cabbage cost; tofu and mushroom at $0.23 would leave about $6 more.

Forty bags a month is 9 to 10 bags a week, about four hours of work. The bigger lever is rent: every extra bag you fold in a rented hour spreads that hour's cost thinner.

What Pricing Mistakes Do New Dumpling Vendors Make?

The most common mistake is pricing from ingredients alone, because at $0.24 a dumpling the food looks cheap next to $1. The costs that actually decide your price are your folding time and your kitchen.

Watch for these:

• Selling singles online. A card fee of 2.9% + $0.30 on a $1 dumpling is 33 cents. Sell bags, or set a 12-dumpling minimum.
• Matching restaurant prices. United Dumplings sells a pork dumpling for $0.50 in its 60 bag and runs three restaurants. At $0.50 a dumpling, a vendor paying $0.35 a dumpling in kitchen rent loses about 9 cents on every dumpling before card fees, and about 11 cents after them, before counting any time.
• Leaving the count off the listing. "Dumplings, $30" makes customers guess. "Pork and Cabbage, Bag of 20, $20" sells.
• Charging less for vegetable fillings. Tofu and mushroom cost $0.23 a dumpling, one cent less than pork, and fold just as slowly.
• Forgetting the permit in a cooked price. At 60 plates of 6, a $105 event permit adds about 29 cents to every dumpling you serve, so price hot plates higher than frozen bags.
• Pricing before picking a legal route. A vendor who plans on a home kitchen and then learns frozen pork dumplings need a rented one has to raise prices on customers who already expect the old number.

The quickest fix for most of these is a price that covers ingredients, time and rent, then a bag size that keeps card fees small.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much should I charge for a dozen homemade dumplings?

We recommend about $12 for a dozen frozen pork, chicken or vegetable dumplings, which is $1 each. That matches the $1.00 per dumpling that a Houston shop charges at its farmers market for a bag of 20. A dozen is a good first order for a new customer, but a bag of 20 for $20 pays you better per hour.

How much does it cost to make dumplings at home?

With homemade wrappers, pork and cabbage filling runs about $0.24 a dumpling at Walmart.com prices on September 30, 2026, or $11.37 for a batch of 48. Chicken fillings run about $0.22 and pork and shrimp about $0.28. Your time at $15 an hour adds about $0.31 more per dumpling if you make 48 an hour, start to finish.

Can I sell homemade dumplings from my home kitchen?

Usually not if they contain meat. In the four states we checked, no home food rule allows frozen pork dumplings, chicken is allowed from home only in Wyoming and North Dakota from birds you raise yourself, and Texas leaves out seafood (Wyoming and North Dakota do not name it, so ask the state about shrimp). In those four states, vegetable dumplings can be sold from home in Texas, Wyoming and North Dakota under their rules, and California allows cooked same-day meals under a county home restaurant permit. Confirm the rules with your state or county health department before you set a price.

How much do frozen dumplings sell for per bag?

Three dumpling shops charged $13 to $39.99 a bag on September 30, 2026, for everyday pork, chicken, vegetable and beef bags of 20 to 60, which is $0.43 to $1.00 a dumpling. For a home-sized business, we recommend $20 for 20 and $45 for 50 as starting prices, or $48 for 50 if you pay kitchen rent. Gluten-free dumplings sell for more ($1.67 to $2.00 at Dumpling Haus), shrimp dumplings and shumai run $1.67 to $2.17, and at United Dumplings the pork and chicken soup dumplings cost $0.90 to $0.95 (crab and pork $1.30) against $0.50 to $0.60 for plain pork.

Is selling dumplings profitable?

Selling dumplings can be profitable if you sell by the bag and count your time and kitchen rent. At $20 for 20, one bag leaves about $14 before rent for 25 minutes of work (dough, filling and folding), or about $34 an hour. With $0.35 a dumpling in kitchen rent, that drops to about $18 an hour.

Should vegetable dumplings cost less than pork dumplings?

No, price them the same. A tofu and mushroom dumpling costs about $0.23 in ingredients against $0.24 for pork and cabbage, and it takes just as long to fold. Dumpling Haus and Steamies charge the same for their vegan and pork bags.

Related Reading

More pricing and selling guides for hand-folded and frozen foods:

• How to Sell Pierogies From Home: the frozen pierogi rules, fillings, packaging and labels.
• How Much to Sell Empanadas For: shop prices and a cost build for another folded, filled food.
• How Much to Sell Tamales For: dozen pricing for a batch food that also sells frozen.
• How to Sell Frozen Meals Locally: freezer storage, pickup and delivery for frozen food.
• MEHKO Laws Explained: how California's home restaurant permit works and which counties allow it.
• How to Find and Rent a Commissary Kitchen: what licensed kitchens charge and what to ask.

Once your price covers ingredients, time and rent, the next step is a place for customers to order the bags. You can set up your Homegrown storefront and list your dumpling bags with the count and price in each name.