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.
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.
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.
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/sites/default/files/media_file/2020-07/Baseline-Raw-Liquid-Eggs_0.pdf
Essentially, if you get an 18 pack of eggs, there’s a good chance one of the eggs has salmonella.
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.
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.
I think, but I’m not sure, you can microwave the floor I to kill off the bacteria.
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:
Can confirm. Do not, I repeat, do not buy that tub. You will eat the entire tub.
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…
I thought the safe to eat cookie dough was just made with sterilized flour and pasteurized eggs. Shouldn’t it taste exactly the same?
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.
