I've never known anyone to get sick from it

3 years ago by 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 to c/dankmemes

Cuzscience 76 points 3 years ago

My wife got sick as a dog after eating chocolate chip cookie dough. She spent a whole day going between bed and the bathroom. Strangely enough, she still eats raw cookie dough. Having gone through it with her, I don’t even like the fake/safe cookie dough in ice cream.

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SobelOperator 57 points 3 years ago

I need sleep. It took me a while to realize that your wife is not a dog.

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normalexit 14 points 3 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...

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ivanafterall 0 points 3 years ago

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Rinna 8 points 3 years ago

I don't think getting violently ill is going to stop me either tbf.

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Num10ck 1 point 3 years ago

so its a less expensive version of Ozempic!

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Franzia 62 points 3 years ago

Looked up a recipe and it seems pretty easy to make non-raw edible cookie dough. Cook the flour in the microwave, and then substitute out the eggs with extra butter and milk.

Life your life, OP.

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huginn 26 points 3 years ago

Leave the eggs in, you'll be fine as long as the flour is good tbh

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BarrelAgedBoredom 9 points 3 years ago

Or get some pasteurized eggs and have at.it for extra safety

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Koboldschadenfroh 4 points 3 years ago

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jemikwa 10 points 3 years ago

Cooking them shell-in at 140F for at least 5 mins is enough to sanitize them. Don't go above 140 or else they will start to cook, and hold for 5 mins or longer so the temp has time to take effect.
https://www.wikihow.com/Pasteurize-Eggs

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BarrelAgedBoredom 5 points 3 years ago

You can buy cartons (as in cardboard bottles, not regular egg containers) of "raw" eggs in the US, I'm not sure if it's an explicitly American thing or not. They come pasteurized, as to how you'd be able to DIY it, I have no idea lol

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brianorca 5 points 3 years ago

By carefully controlling temperature, you can go above the heat tolerance of the bacteria without going above the heat which would solidify egg white.

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Crashumbc 1 point 3 years ago

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UFOPilot 1 point 3 years ago

The outer shell is pasteurized as salmonella from eggs is only on the exterior.

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altima_neo 29 points 3 years ago

Yeah there's two issues with it. Both the raw flour and the raw egg. I'd say the raw flour is the bigger threat to your health.

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kbotc 18 points 3 years ago

I’m not sure that’s the case anymore. The specific salmonella that can invade chicken reproductive system is getting more prevelant.

The estimated prevalence of Salmonella in egg white is 6.99% with a 95% confidence interval between 2.44% and 11.54%.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/...

Essentially, if you get an 18 pack of eggs, there’s a good chance one of the eggs has salmonella.

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Grimy 8 points 3 years ago

The study says 34% of whole eggs tested positive for salmonella which is insane.

The CDC says 1 on 20 000. We use raw eggs in many recipes, lots of restaurants still make home made mayo. Not to mention the thousands who eat them raw everyday in smoothies like me. I pass an 18 pack of raw eggs in a week.

I'm guessing only certain strains of salmonella actually make you sick or the study is just shit because that's the only way it makes sense.

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ReluctantMuskrat 6 points 3 years ago

Hmm... my family demands I make French Silk pie for the holidays and that involves 4 raw eggs per pie. Always knew there was a risk but I've never had any trouble in 20 years. Wonder how long our luck will last.

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teruma 1 point 3 years ago

You can either buy pasteurized eggs, or pasteurize your own eggs!

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FooBarrington 4 points 3 years ago

If you're ever offered Russian eggnog shots, decline.

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altima_neo 4 points 3 years ago

You get a double whammy with raw flour, as it can contain both salmonella and e.coli

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surewhynotlem 2 points 3 years ago

I think, but I'm not sure, you can microwave the floor I to kill off the bacteria.

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AngryCommieKender 16 points 3 years ago

I hope you aren't microwaving your floor. The magnetron shouldn't be removed from the shielding. It would kill the bacteria, and you eventually.

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Geek_King 29 points 3 years ago

I've always found the safe to eat raw cookie dough to not be very good, nothing compared with real cookie dough. But the fake stuff is all I could find that wouldn't risk me getting ill. One day I was at a local grocery store and couldn't find my stupid fake cookie dough, and the worker said they didn't care it any more, but he was pretty sure Pillbury changed the recipe of their take and bake cookie dough so it can be eaten raw, or baked first.

This proved to be true, and dangerous. It takes TOO good, it's problematic:

Pillsbury™ Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Tub 76ct

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pikmeir 10 points 3 years ago

Can confirm. Do not, I repeat, do not buy that tub. You will eat the entire tub.

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Geek_King 8 points 3 years ago

Luckily, I only bought a tube, and thank deity I didn't see a tube there. But I have to tell you, one full tube consumed over the course of a weekend, by me, and individual, and no one else.... You reach the end of that tube and there are no lies to tell ones self "Other people helped, it wasn't just you". Nope, just you, you alone ate that tube.

Just don't buy it, it isn't worth the cost...

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starman2112 6 points 3 years ago

I thought the safe to eat cookie dough was just made with sterilized flour and pasteurized eggs. Shouldn't it taste exactly the same?

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I_Fart_Glitter 3 points 3 years ago

I would have thought they'd leave out the baking soda? Gives it that tang..

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3laws 3 points 3 years ago

I'm vegan, mine tastes exactly the same with or without sterilized flour.

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isthingoneventhis 3 points 3 years ago

we found an orange tub of chocolate cookie "dough" that had to be refrigerated and it was divine. I wish I could remember the brand now :(

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fluxion 3 points 3 years ago

Sometimes corporations actually save the world

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Chriszz 2 points 3 years ago

I feel like break apart cookies with safe to eat cookie dough also taste worse. As in the change to safe raw dough made the cookies taste worse

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socsa 24 points 3 years ago

Most salmonella exposure will cause mild symptoms like a day of runny stools. If you eat raw dough with any frequency, you have almost certainly been exposed to it and experienced mild symptoms. It's a much bigger risk for people with weak immune systems.

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Lord_Logjam 23 points 3 years ago

This will massively depend on what country you're in. It's pretty safe to eat raw egg in a lot of places.

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SharkEatingBreakfast 32 points 3 years ago

Fun fact: the risk is more from the flour than it is the egg.

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Sotuanduso 3 points 3 years ago

Thanks for the useful information!

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HiddenLayer5 23 points 3 years ago

There is a risk yes, more so than many other foods we eat, how much of a risk is impossible to generalize and depends on too many factors. Cooking significantly reduces the risk, so the safest thing is to just say you shouldn't eat it raw because no one wants to be held responsible nor live with the guilt if you die of food poisoning from eating cookie dough at their suggestion. No one can actually prevent you from doing it, and whether you want to depends on your own assessment of the risks in any particular instance, and your risk tolerance.

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nova_ad_vitum 3 points 3 years ago

Where does the salmonella come from, though? Is it in the raw flour, or the raw eggs? If you know you want to eat the cookie dough , there's no point adding eggs at all - they don't bring any flavour. As for the flour, it doesn't bring flavour but it's probably important to the texture of the dough.

So what happens if you pour the flour onto a sheet pan and bake it at 300-325F for 30 mins all by itself? Would that kill everything in there that needs killing, so you can then make cookie dough that's safe to eat?

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OhmsLawn 7 points 3 years ago

You actually can make edible cookie dough with toasted flour and pasteurized eggs.

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AppaYipYip 3 points 3 years ago

CDC says unpasteurized eggs and raw flour can have salmonella and e.coli. https://www.cdc.gov/...

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AnalogyAddict 2 points 3 years ago

Yes, that's how it's done.

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ohlaph 2 points 3 years ago

Sweet, if I always buy the 12 pack, or dozen for you bakera, I will never get it. I love math. Thani you. s\

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thedoodlenoodle 18 points 3 years ago

Just microwave or bake the flour then make cookie dough normally.

There is a much higher risk of getting salmonella from raw flour than from raw egg, since store bought eggs are pasteurized and washed (in USA/Canada).

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I_Fart_Glitter 6 points 3 years ago

Eggs in the shell in the US are not pasteurized unless specifically labeled, only about 3% of them, but they are washed. Any egg product out of the shell, like in a milk carton type container is pasteurized.

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Pietson 2 points 3 years ago

In Europe iirc chickens are also very well vaccinated against salmonella.

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IDontHavePantsOn 4 points 3 years ago

Everywhere actually. Salmonella in the poultry business was a huge deal and now the salmonella vaccines are some of the cheapest to produce. If your chickens aren't vaccinated you pretty much aren't selling them to anyone anywhere. I'm too tired to elaborate, but I used to work in the industry and salmonella in poultry is pretty much a thing of the past.

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Nefrayu 1 point 3 years ago

Salmonella vaccination isn’t standard practice in Ireland due to low prevalence of the infection. There’s effectively no salmonella on Irish eggs for sale. As far as I understand it anyway.

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to_urcite_ty_kokos 17 points 3 years ago

Yep, me as a small child.

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SulaymanF 13 points 3 years ago

People do get salmonella from eating raw egg. Egg is often an ingredient in cookie mix, so SOME cookie dough puts you at risk, and the egg-free ones don’t. Check the label carefully.

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soren446 30 points 3 years ago

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redcalcium 9 points 3 years ago

Just make it yourself. Lightly roast the flour to sterilize it and wash the eggs thoroughly before cracking them open to reduce the risk.

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GigglyBobble 13 points 3 years ago

I've never heard of washing eggs and before and it is controversial: https://backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com/...

TIL, in the US eggs are washed making eggs more prone to infections and lower shelf life.

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Pipoca 4 points 3 years ago

American eggs have a longer shelf life, but it's because they're refrigerated rather than left out at room temp.

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general_kitten 3 points 3 years ago

if you refrigerate european eggs they can last very long also. Just anecdotal evidence but i have never encountered a rotten egg and i have cooked a lot of eggs

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socsa 2 points 3 years ago

The problem is then more about potentially contaminating your refrigerator where you keep various raw foods. That's kind of the entire justification for why eggs in the US get washed.

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ninjakitty7 2 points 3 years ago

Yep, we refrigerate pre washed eggs here in the US. Never really had issues with shelf life, and we don’t have to wash them or handle chicken feces in the kitchen. I imagine the risk of contamination from handling unwashed eggs is probably about the same as the risk of having potentially sooner to spoil eggs in the fridge.

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IWantToFuckSpez 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah I live in the EU and never had an salmonella infection from unwashed eggs in my life and I often eat raw eggs. The chance of getting salmonella from eggs nowadays is really small since chickens are all vaccinated.

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redcalcium 2 points 3 years ago

That's only if you want to store it afterward. Not a problem if you immediately use it.

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general_kitten 9 points 3 years ago

depends on where you live as salmonella prevalence varies a lot by country

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Bloodwoodsrisen 9 points 3 years ago

My brother got salmonella from working under the porch when we had chickens

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YurkshireLad 3 points 3 years ago

Chubbyemu did a YouTube video about this : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwa8PdtWapE

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cartufer 3 points 3 years ago

They make edible cookie dough now.

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ElBarto 2 points 3 years ago

I got it from peanut butter, never got it from cookie dough though.

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MeanEYE -4 points 3 years ago

All the arguments aside, who the hell eats raw dough? Can't imagine that tasting good.

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AnalogyAddict 25 points 3 years ago

Oh, my sweet child. There is a whole world of joy out there. Chocolate chip cookie dough is one of life's pure joys.

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Piemanding 9 points 3 years ago

IDK what OP is talking about but cookie dough almost always tastes better than the end result.

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ReluctantMuskrat 4 points 3 years ago

Everybody but you I guess?

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ohlaph 4 points 3 years ago

You absolutely must try it .

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Chewget 3 points 3 years ago

Rage bait

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Thedogspaw -6 points 3 years ago

Its a lie nobody ever died from food posing its all just a big pharma lie to keep you from enjoying that sweet raw cookie dough

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ivanafterall 22 points 3 years ago

Sounds like precisely the kind of lies pushed by big cookie.

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Chriszz 2 points 3 years ago

Most people did not get your sarcasm

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