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A few years back, there was a major salmonella outbreak from eating raw cookie dough. Several people died, but most recovered, although i recall one woman who had lots of complications, and will never be right again.
Don't eat raw commetcial cookie dough, unless you made it yourself.
The last guy who asked the same thing got told to go ahead and try. He hasn't been heard from since. Some say he's just not finished trying the infinite variety of cookie dough.
Raw eggs are no problem I've seen Rocky
the risk mostly comes from the flour
Make vegan cookies, problem solved
Tumblr's got you covered:
eating flour straight form the bag lol
Who the hell is rawdogging their flour??
A bit of raw flour dusting on my cake.
If that's not love, I dont know what is
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
It's not just salmonella from the egg, it's also e coli from the raw flour.
If you want to make yourself cookie dough, remember to bake loose flour for a bit first to kill any microbes in that, too.
You can tank both of those things. You might get sick but they probably wont kill you if you're lucky. Cookie dough should have some risk, its the only way to balance it.
you get derivatives on licking them cookie dough boots lol
I was initially mad at this comment but you're right. Cookie dough is too good. Literally an OP food. The fear of shitting your guts out is the only thing stopping a somewhat reasonable person like me from eating a whole pound of it.
It's just the universe's way of maintaining balance. Kind of like when humanity invented Olestra and the universe said "ok that's fine, but if you eat a bag of Doritos your ass is going to leak."
I remember there being a comedy site back when olestra was a thing where some dude decided to test how much he'd have to eat before basically shitting himself inside out. He essentially journaled gradually increasing amounts for like a week and a half. If memory serves, it was roughly one whole bag of chips in a day before symptoms began and 2 bags before he hit full on ass leakage.
And use unsweetened applesauce instead of eggs! If you get the cheap, bland stuff there's no difference in flavor, and no risk from uncooked eggs!
though home methods of making the raw flour edible is often inconsistent in terms of how safe it makes the flour, the best practice is to buy cookie dough made to be edible raw, rather than rely on your half-baked attempt at making raw flour edible 😅 (source)
You can make your own edible cooking dough. You just have to pasteurize the eggs and flour. If I'm not mistaken, I think the flour is more dangerous than the eggs.
There are even shops which sell edible cookie dough pre-made if you'd prefer the convenience.
Wait what
What's going on with the flour? Fungus?
Raw flour may be contaminated with harmful bacteria such as E. coli.
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/general-food-safety-tips/safe-handling-flour.html
I don't know how people make cakes and cookies witbout eating it raw. It seems to be an american thing. Am I the only Australian eating cake batter and cookie dough?
Haha no you're not the only one, I don't do it after I became a chef and had sanitary practices drilled into my brainhole but whenever I'm cooking with someone in the kitchen they go nuts that they get to have all the batter to themselves.
It's generally pretty safe, especially in Australia. You are still at risk for E Coli from eating the uncooked flour though.
I've still eaten things that AFAIK should've hospitalized me and I've been fine, the risks associated with food have come down a lot in recent years but there is still always a risk.
Cooking times, temps, danger zones etc just guarantee that the food is okay to be consumed but you can usually push the envelope if your adventurous and have no harm done.
Do stay away from old pastas and rices that haven't kept properly, that shit will kill you.
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/flour-raw-food-and-other-safety-facts
https://www.cdc.gov/food-safety/foods/no-raw-dough.html
Yes, people have gotten sick from Salmonella and E. coli from eating raw flour.
In a flour recall that happened in March 2023, 14 people got sick with 3 hospitalizations.
Here were some others:
Flour is one of the top ten foods that cause illnesses (source).
Yeah I did once, like when I was 8. I don't recommend it, vomitting and shitting sucks a lot.
From raw vegan cookie dough? No :)
#govegan
The flour isn’t clean though.
Sounds like a USA problem.
Come to Germany, here you can even eat raw pork! It's called Met and it's delicous.
Nothing stops you eating raw pork here other than that pork used to be riddled with diseases in "ye good ole days," and the fear still exists. You can buy it raw and eat it that way if you want.
Until USDA is gutted.
Still won't be illegal. Just probably would actually be full of parasites again.
Some creepy video appeared to me yesterday where a woman poured soda on raw pork and a bunch of worms emerged. Seen it?
UHHH
The Bundesinstitut für Risikoforschung (BfR) recommends to not eat raw dough, not because of salmonella but E. Coli and EHEC. Check out this publication: https://www.bfr.bund.de/cm/429/010_stec_ehec-infektionen_durch_rohen_teig.pdf