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Ho, ho, ho -- don't eat raw cookie dough: CDC
abc ^ | 12/08/2018 | Eric M. Strauss

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!”

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: cookie; cookiedough; cookies
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The problem is not flour but raw eggs, which have a risk of salmonella or e. coli.


21 posted on 12/09/2018 1:11:17 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t eat the yellow snow!


22 posted on 12/09/2018 1:18:05 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Flaming Conservative

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.


23 posted on 12/09/2018 1:44:06 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: skr

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.


24 posted on 12/09/2018 2:33:50 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Thank you for the information.


25 posted on 12/09/2018 3:08:42 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: BenLurkin

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!”.


26 posted on 12/09/2018 3:15:35 AM PST by equaviator
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To: Flaming Conservative
and apparently in the U.K., the eggs can be kept on the counter, because they’re pasteurized.

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/

27 posted on 12/09/2018 4:10:01 AM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I had never till recently heard of flour being a problem. Maybe it became a problem due to sloppy kitchen habits, getting stuff in the flour bag or canister that shouldn’t be there.

You've never heard of flour mites?

28 posted on 12/09/2018 4:19:27 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Flaming Conservative

You buy eggs with poop on them?! Chicken eggs should be washed and dried before sale. You have some weird chicken farmers.


29 posted on 12/09/2018 4:22:25 AM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: cherry

Everyone who ever eats raw cookie dough eventually dies.

There is no escaping science.


30 posted on 12/09/2018 4:28:19 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: logi_cal869

Gluten free is real; I have a relative diagnosed by the Mayo clinic: both antibodies and severe erosion of the vilii.


31 posted on 12/09/2018 5:44:28 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: BenLurkin

BOOM BELLY


32 posted on 12/09/2018 5:47:29 AM PST by jetson
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To: Fightin Whitey

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.


33 posted on 12/09/2018 5:50:41 AM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: oldasrocks

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.


34 posted on 12/09/2018 5:52:40 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: BenLurkin

People have been gnoshing raw cookie dough for decades, and suddenly it’s a health threat on a par with Ebola.

Yeah.


35 posted on 12/09/2018 6:14:05 AM PST by IronJack
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To: BenLurkin
Sorry, sin't gunna happen.

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.

36 posted on 12/09/2018 6:21:39 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: super7man

Oh, crap.

wide = wife

I am in such big trouble.
Honest, the “d” and “f” are right next to each other.

Oh, crap.


37 posted on 12/09/2018 6:23:18 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: skr

“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.


38 posted on 12/09/2018 6:41:25 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe not from the store but homemade will make you slap yo mama


39 posted on 12/09/2018 6:42:38 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: blondiegoodbadugly
We actually played in the dirt in the backyard when I was a kid.

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.

40 posted on 12/09/2018 6:43:17 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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