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> driving down the road I was inspired to taste some fresh wheat grains in a field Fun fact: The danger in eating raw cookie-dough isn't primarily from fresh e
by Terr_ 2y ago
> driving down the road I was inspired to taste some fresh wheat grains in a field
Fun fact: The danger in eating raw cookie-dough isn't primarily from fresh eggs (though they can have problems too) but rather from the raw flour, which before cooking may have a bunch of bacterial nastiness in it.
- nkozyra 2y agoRaw flour is generally not pasteurized, it's true, but most cookie dough mixes are. The eggs are a far more likely vector for illness unless you're making the cookies yourself from scratch.
- Terr_ 2y ago> most cookie dough mixes are At least where I live, only a minority are advertised as "ready to eat". It's more common to see the opposite, an explicit warning that it must be cooked.
- shermantanktop 2y agoThat just puts a frisson of risk into your decision to eat the raw dough, which wasn’t a good idea to begin with.
- philsnow 2y agoYou can easily pasteurize both eggs* and flour at home, and make Cookie Dough That Won't Kill You (Nearly As Quickly) * with the right equipment
- bigiain 2y agoI assume "the right equipment" is "an oven", and "Cookie Dough That Won't Kill You" is usually referred to as just "cookies"? ;-)
- astrange 2y agoYou can microwave flour to make it safe without actually cooking it. Don't know about eggs, but some recipe sites claim it works for them too.
- sleepybrett 2y agomicrowaves cook eggs, throw some scrambled eggs in a glass and into the microwave you get a very smooth scrambled egg. Unpleasant generally but a lot of coffeeshops do this for breakfast sandwiches. Perhaps on a low setting?
- astrange 2y agohttps://www.thespruceeats.com/pasteurize-eggs-in-the-microwave-995505 https://www.thespruceeats.com/pasteurize-eggs-in-the-microwa...
- swiftcoder 2y agoYou can pasteurise eggs with a basic sous vide setup. Take any of those home sous vide circulators, set it to 140 F, and once it's up to temperature put the eggs in for 4 minutes...
- account42 2y ago> unless you're making the cookies yourself from scratch This isn't the default assumption?
- throwaway519 2y agoChoking on the mixture is the main danger.
- bigiain 2y agoI wonder if that has a higher death rate than driving to the store to buy it?
- throwaway519 2y agoBoth probably higher than taking the subway to work.
- Terr_ 2y agoI feel like dividing the outcomes into just two buckets of "direct cause of permanent death" versus "everything else" isn't the ideal way to approach routine decisions about what to eat. :p ("This cardboard is unlikely to kill me, sooooo...")