Posted on 12/08/2018 10:04:54 PM PST by BenLurkin
The holidays are upon us and for many that means family time in the kitchen preparing delicious baked goods and maybe even licking the spoon before the cookies go into the oven. So the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out a warning this week to, “Say No To Raw Dough!”
Dr. Todd Ellerin -- who admits he doesn’t bake -- said it’s the raw flour and uncooked eggs that can make us sick.
Ellerin warned that “complications of this type of E. coli can include bloody diarrhea, need for prolonged hospitalization, and kidney failure, breakdown of red blood cells that carry oxygen.”
CDC says Salmonella symptoms typically include diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps. In most cases, illness lasts 4 to 7 days and people recover without antibiotics. Illness from Salmonella bacteria can be serious and is more dangerous for older adults, infants, and people with weakened immune systems.
Dr. Ellerin wants people to have a nice holiday season and doesn’t want to ruin Kim’s fun in the kitchen, but has a wish for one and all, “We are used to hearing Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas, but in the kitchen as we are preparing to make cookies, it should be Ho Ho Ho, please avoid the raw dough!”
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The problem is not flour but raw eggs, which have a risk of salmonella or e. coli.
Don’t eat the yellow snow!
There are pasteurized eggs, both in liquid form and in the shell.
Europe apparently vaccinates their chickens against salmonellosis.
I’ve read that you can pasteurize eggs in the microwave, but I think I’ll skip that.
Pasteurizing eggs yourself with a Sous Vide cooker is trivial.
https://www.justonecookbook.com/pasteurize-eggs/
I love my Anova. Any home cook who is reasonably serious about cooking should have a Sous Vide device.
Thank you for the information.
What’s up with the rhyming slogans? WTF! Have studies shown that if your slogan features (nursery) rhyming it’ll be more effective? You know, the “1, 2, 3, 4...Climate Change is at the door!” and “2, 4, 6, 8...Watch us as we masturbate!”.
Not the majority, but "Since the late 1990’s, British farmers have been vaccinating hens against salmonella following a crisis that sickened thousands of people who had consumed infected eggs. Amazingly, this measure has virtually wiped out the health threat in Britain. In 1997, there were 14,771 reported cases of salmonella poisoning there, by 2009 this had dropped to just 581 cases."
. Other differences also: see https://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-american-eggs-would-be-illegal-in-a-british-supermarket-and-vice-versa/
You've never heard of flour mites?
You buy eggs with poop on them?! Chicken eggs should be washed and dried before sale. You have some weird chicken farmers.
Everyone who ever eats raw cookie dough eventually dies.
There is no escaping science.
Gluten free is real; I have a relative diagnosed by the Mayo clinic: both antibodies and severe erosion of the vilii.
BOOM BELLY
I need a GRANT. The money will be used to give the chickens an education of not pooping where they lay eggs and to use wet ones when they wipe.
I’m sure the lectures we give to the chickens will be listened to and respected so we can end this cookie dough problem once and for all.
My dear Mother told me that 70+ years ago. I’m doing well. I still eat raw cookie dough. Yum...Yum. This is yet more government lunacy from pathetic control freaks.
People have been gnoshing raw cookie dough for decades, and suddenly it’s a health threat on a par with Ebola.
Yeah.
A few years back I cam home and my wife and daughter were in the process of making "cookies". I noticed that the oven was not on and asked if they wanted me to turn it on. The said,"No, its OK. We have spoons." ;o)
Do you know anyone who has actually gotten sick from eating cookie dough? Maybe I need to clarify the question. Does anyone know anyone who has ever gotten food poisoning from eating cookie dough?
My guess is that my wide and daughter would say the risk is worth it.
Oh, crap.
wide = wife
I am in such big trouble.
Honest, the “d” and “f” are right next to each other.
Oh, crap.
“I’ve read that you can pasteurize eggs in the microwave, but I think I’ll skip that.”
Because KABOOM!!
Cleaning the inside of something is always more difficult than cleaning the outside.
Maybe not from the store but homemade will make you slap yo mama
Big Bro talked me into sucking egg out via a pinhole....
Imagine all the folks that took a bath in dirty bath water....
Live....Stop worrying so much about every damn thing.
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