Have you ever gotten sick?

[Pembo]

Have you or anyone you personally know ever gotten sick from eating raw cookie dough? or licking the bowl after baking a cake???? I have heard that you shouldn't do it because of the raw eggs in the batter. BUT my mom let us do it all the time when we were kids......

I just wondered if it was really true or just a myth or what.........

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

If you go to the store and buy the raw cookie dough that is already prepackaged you can eat as much of it as you want because contain egg...just a whole lot of chemicals (my mommy told me this )

 

[Bob Slydell]

Never have, never known anyone who has.

I think these days, most eggs are pasteurized, so there's less of a likelyhood of getting sick from eating raw eggs. It wasn't necessarily the case in our parents era.

 

[lulugirl]

I eat raw cookie dough all the time, both prepackaged and homemade. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've never gotten sick from it.

 

[foolishmortal]

As an adult I still do that stuff all the time, and have yet to ever feel any effects afterwards...other than wanting more.

 

[Aimeedyan]

I've never known anyone to get sick. I eat it all the time, both prepackaged and homemade.

 

[laurie31]

Raw eggs are not pasteurized. There is moreof a risk of cross-contamination today than there was "back then" (I ate it as a child too, not to mention rare hamburgers, which I wouldn't dare do today).

Egg substitute is pasteurized and therefore safe to eat raw. I bake with it for that reason

I have not personally gotten sick from raw eggs as I will not eat them, but as a nurse I've taken care of patients who have and it's not something I will EVER risk experiencing first hand. I even pass up homemade ice cream if it has raw eggs.

Laurie

 

[Barb D]

My sister did get very ill from eating raw cookie dough (home made) one time...and this was in the last few years.

I still do it, though...

I only let my kids eat the pre-packaged cookie dough.

 

[helenabear]

I personally haven't, but I know it is possible.

You can buy specifically pasturized eggs to keep this from happening though. I used to, but my store stopped carrying them

 

[chrissyk]

I don't personally know anyone who has gotten sick from eating cookie dough or cake batter, but I won't do it myself. I've had food poisoning before (not from cookie dough), and I don't ever want to get it again. The suffering of food poisoning is not worth a bit or 2 of yummy cookie dough in my book.

 

[ckay87]

Raw eggs are not pasteurized. There is moreof a risk of cross-contamination today than there was "back then" (I ate it as a child too, not to mention rare hamburgers, which I wouldn't dare do today).



Laurie

This is what puzzles me. Now I'm not an expert on the food processing/packaging industry or whatever, but why is doing this more dangerous today? Isn't industry of the 21st century supposed to be cleaner, safer, and smarter? I mean, don't we have the technology to keep our food clean and fresh as it is processed?

 

[Hootiss]

Are you supposed to cook cookie dough? lol

 

[ducklite]

Never have, never known anyone who has.

I think these days, most eggs are pasteurized, so there's less of a likelyhood of getting sick from eating raw eggs. It wasn't necessarily the case in our parents era.

Anne (Brownie batter is the BEST!)

 

[Iott Family]

Seems raw cookie dough has made it to urban legend status! My auntie is a nurse and she told me salmonella(sp) and e-colli(sp) is on the egg shell so we always wash our eggs before cracking them. I have eaten raw dough and batter since a wee one and never had a problem except from overeating and the sugar high! Of course im a midwest hick and we eat some crazy things to you eatern and western coast folk. Fried turtle, frog legs, rocky mountain oysters...........laughs, but you wont catch us eating fish eggs or squid. Cookie dough seems harmless enough to me.

 

[foolishmortal]

Some of this raw egg stuff has me laughing right now...

Like I said I eat the raw dough & batter, but I am also one that adds an egg to every orange julius I order. Again I have been doing this for over 20 years have never even had an upset stomach from it so I will continue to take my chances.


now the post about eating raw hamburger...no way for me...lol

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

Short of maybe getting a stomachache which was probably due to overeating I have never had a problem. But, here's one thing I do...when I make it myself, I eat a lot before I add in the eggs and then eat just a little bit afterwards!

 

[Maleficent13]

Nope, never have. And I've been eating it since I was on solid food. And still do...doesn't mean I discount those who have gotten sick on it. Just that I haven't and I will continue to eat it.

 

[meandtheguys2]

You mean you are suposed to cook that stuff?!

The stats on a healthy (no immune issues) person becoming seriously ill show it really isn't an issue, as far as I am concerned! Like much in life it is a risk, and I will continue to take it!

 

[Kermit]

People didn't get sick from raw eggs until recently. That's because until about 1985, salmonella was only on the egg shells and not inside the eggs. It's still not in very many eggs, and most healthy adults won't get dangerously sick if they do eat a little raw egg that is contaminated. It is possible, though. (I think the stat for eggs with salmonella inside the egg shell is something like 1 in 20,000.) Babies, elderly people, and people with comprised immune systems are at the highest risk, but anybody can get sick. You never know if you might be coming down with strep throat or some other illness that would make you unable to fight off a bug that you would have been able to handle a few days previously.

For a while, it was assumed that the salmonella itself had changed and had become strong enough to penetrate the shell. Now many people think that it's acutally due to the antibiotics and other garbage the chickens are fed. If that's the case, eating high-quality organic eggs is the way to go.

 

[Crankyshank]

Sure I've gotten sick from raw cookie dough. It's not from the eggs, but because I'm eaten so much that it's made me sick