Any danger to kids eating raw hotdogs?

[Sleepy]

It is recommended to boil hot dogs to kill Listeria. However, you don't do it with deli meats so it is really pointless.

I feel the same way about that as I do the recomendation to rinse meats before cooking. If you can't and don't rinse hamburger meat, why the big deal about the other meats?

 

[Mysteria]

Myself and every child my age at the time ate "raw hot dogs". To us it was a snack on the go. I still eat them.

ETA: They are all still alive and well.

Should we have done it then or do it now. Probably not. Did it ever make anyone I knew sick as a dog. No.

Myst

 

[aprilgail2]

And just to add a little more drama....the biggest danger is that a hotdog is the most choked on food for small children because it is roughly the same size as their airway. If it gets lodged in there, well, its difficult to get out. Happy thursday.

I have always cut my daughters hot dogs up in little pieces for her to eat. One day she was about 3 or 4 and we were at a street fair by my town. She was hungry so I bought one and we sat down on the curb and I told her to take a small bit, I was nervous about it but there was no utensils or plates etc to cut it up with. Well one bit and she was chokeing, there was a n ambulance about 1/2 block away with some paramedics giving kids tours of it etc, I jumped up so fast and started running over there carrying her, well I guess it was a bumpy run becuase after one bump she coughed it up and started crying. I was never so scared in my entire life! To this day (she is SEVEN now ) I won't let her eat hot dogs-lucky that after that she never wanted to eat them either!!

 

[dmslush]

Besides the fact that they are packed with nitrates and are generally disgustingly unhealthy, eating them raw is fine.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I feel the same way about that as I do the recomendation to rinse meats before cooking. If you can't and don't rinse hamburger meat, why the big deal about the other meats?

Did you know that they changed that? It is recommended to NOT rinse meats.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Does_Washing_Food_Promote_Food_Safety/index.asp

Cross-Contamination
Washing raw poultry, beef, pork, lamb, or veal before cooking it is not recommended. Bacteria in raw meat and poultry juices can be spread to other foods, utensils, and surfaces. We call this cross-contamination.