Raw Cookie Dough Fans - Interesting article

[Wall-E1]

http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...s-lurking-in-raw-cookie-dough-scientist-warns


I am and have always been a raw cookie dough addict. When my son was younger, I would try to hide my addiction from him. I would sneak bites(okay.. half a roll) after he was asleep. He would ask if I had baked and eaten some cookies while he slept. I would shrug my shoulders and deny knowledge of anything. He is a teenager now and he himself has become a raw cookie dough addict. I know it is from him catching me doing the deed. He thought it gross at first, but after that first taste, there's no going back. We are aware of the dangers, but when we read an article like this, we think mathematically. Only 77 people got sick in 30 states. Surely, we rationalize, that same number of people, or more, have become sick by eating bad produce, meats, etc. So, this article will not deter us from enjoying the rawest of pleasures. And we will still fight about who gets to lick the bowl and spoon clean of cake batter. Any other raw cookie dough/cake batter fans out there? Does anyone fear the dangers of raw cookie dough?

 

[Goofyluver]

Life's too short to fear licking the bowl of yummy goodness. Besides, how else do you know if it tastes good?

 

[Butwhyistherumgone?]

I'll take my chances

 

[Uncle Remus]

http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...s-lurking-in-raw-cookie-dough-scientist-warns


I am and have always been a raw cookie dough addict. When my son was younger, I would try to hide my addiction from him. I would sneak bites(okay.. half a roll) after he was asleep. He would ask if I had baked and eaten some cookies while he slept. I would shrug my shoulders and deny knowledge of anything. He is a teenager now and he himself has become a raw cookie dough addict. I know it is from him catching me doing the deed. He thought it gross at first, but after that first taste, there's no going back. We are aware of the dangers, but when we read an article like this, we think mathematically. Only 77 people got sick in 30 states. Surely, we rationalize, that same number of people, or more, have become sick by eating bad produce, meats, etc. So, this article will not deter us from enjoying the rawest of pleasures. And we will still fight about who gets to lick the bowl and spoon clean of cake batter. Any other raw cookie dough/cake batter fans out there? Does anyone fear the dangers of raw cookie dough?

Love cake batter, great stuff. And no, not skeered at all, I grew up in the 50's, not afraid of communists either.

 

[WhatATreat]

I've been eating raw cookie dough all my life and I'm not about to stop now. It is one of life's greatest simple pleasures.

 

[charming23]

I like taking risks so I will keep on eating the raw batter. It is the best part about baking.

 

[kimblebee]

I've always been told not to eat raw dough, especially if it had eggs in it. I can't think of anything grosser than a raw cookie dough blizzard. EWWWWW

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

I have eaten raw cookie dough all my life and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. However, I can't stand the pre-made cookie dough you buy at the stores, it has to be homemade cookie dough for me.

 

[OK!]

I will stop eating raw cookie dough when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. And not a second sooner. I'll eat the stuff from the store, but only certain kinds (e.g. Immaculate Baking Co. Vanilla Sugar). Much prefer homemade, particularly sugar cookie dough. Chocolate chips ruin things for me.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I've been living on the edge all these years.

They say it's the flour that's the culprit? Hmph. That's an interesting twist. The finger used to be pointed to the eggs.

Love raw cookie dough. Always have. When I was younger I had a tub in the fridge just for snacking with no intention of ever baking it.

 

[Bonnie151]

I'll take my chances

Ditto. You can get E. coli from salad leaves, cucumber etc. I'm not going to spend my life paranoid when there's yummy cookie dough to be eaten!

 

[Uptown Girl]

I like to live life on the edge...raw cookie dough for me. Heck, this time of year we buy the Pillsbury cookie dough with the reindeer and snowmen in the middle and just eat that raw too. I don't know that we have every really baked any of those.

 

[Mermaid02]

You probably take a bigger risk every time you get into your car.

I will continue to eat raw cookie dough, rare beef and my eggs over easy.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

I've always been told not to eat raw dough, especially if it had eggs in it. I can't think of anything grosser than a raw cookie dough blizzard. EWWWWW

It was the flour in the dough that they think made people sick.

 

[IDoDis]

Raw cookie dough and cake batter lovers unite! I cannot make cookies or cakes without licking the bowl. A friend of mine is the opposite and thinks I'm crazy for putting myself at risk . When she bakes, she puts all of that yummy goodness in the sink and fills the bowl with water as I watch her with a heavy heart.

I made a millionaire pie for Thanksgiving. She had never heard of it, so when I told her the ingredients (butter, eggs, sugar, cream cheese, etc...) and that it wasn't baked, she freaked at the raw eggs being in the pie.

My mom used to eat raw beef & onion sandwiches every day for lunch when she was young and she's still around to talk about it.

 

[cornflake]

I've been living on the edge all these years.

They say it's the flour that's the culprit? Hmph. That's an interesting twist. The finger used to be pointed to the eggs.

Love raw cookie dough. Always have. When I was younger I had a tub in the fridge just for snacking with no intention of ever baking it.

The eggs are pasturized in most of those slice-and-bake things. The reason not to eat homemade raw dough is indeed because salmonella is common in eggs.

I kind of can't believe people are 'eh' like it's fine that a product would be contaminated with e-coli, especially a non-meat product, especially from the flour. That is just gross.

I don't eat raw dough or do the preformed stuff but if I did, e-coli contaminated product would sure put me off it!

 

[wdwmom2]

You probably take a bigger risk every time you get into your car.

I will continue to eat raw cookie dough, rare beef and my eggs over easy.

I agree with everything you said!!!!

Love my raw cookie/cake batter, rare beef, and ya gotta be able to dip toast in your eggs!!!!!

Life is good!!!

 

[OceanAnnie]

The eggs are pasturized in most of those slice-and-bake things. The reason not to eat homemade raw dough is indeed because salmonella is common in eggs.

I kind of can't believe people are 'eh' like it's fine that a product would be contaminated with e-coli, especially a non-meat product, especially from the flour. That is just gross.

I don't eat raw dough or do the preformed stuff but if I did, e-coli contaminated product would sure put me off it!

The inside of an egg was once considered almost sterile. But, over recent years, the bacterium Salmonella enteritidis (Se) has been found inside a small number of eggs. Scientists estimate that, on average across the U.S., only 1 of every 20,000 eggs might contain the bacteria. So, the likelihood that an egg might contain Se is extremely small – 0.005% (five one-thousandths of one percent). At this rate, if you’re an average consumer, you might encounter a contaminated egg once every 84 years.

http://www.incredibleegg.org/egg-facts/egg-safety/eggs-and-food-safety

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I rarely buy real eggs anymore. We pretty much only eat egg substitute, and I bake with it too. I love my cookie dough and figured it was safer with pasturized egg sub. I never heard the theory about the flour before. Still, I will eat my dough and my batter and enjoy every bite!

 

[cornflake]

The inside of an egg was once considered almost sterile. But, over recent years, the bacterium Salmonella enteritidis (Se) has been found inside a small number of eggs. Scientists estimate that, on average across the U.S., only 1 of every 20,000 eggs might contain the bacteria. So, the likelihood that an egg might contain Se is extremely small – 0.005% (five one-thousandths of one percent). At this rate, if you’re an average consumer, you might encounter a contaminated egg once every 84 years.

http://www.incredibleegg.org/egg-facts/egg-safety/eggs-and-food-safety

Colour me cynical, but it seems that the website you've got there is perhaps shading it to seem a particular way, heh.

I have a funny feeling they're counting your risk as average whole eggs consumed, or something, which doesn't account for a ton of eggs - raw dough, caesar salad, french toast, meringues, etc.

According to the World Health Organization, which last compiled data in 2005, salmonella in the U.S. accounts for 168,000 hospital visits, 15,000 hospitalizations, and 580 deaths each year.

Statistically, that's probably not huge, given the 300 million people in the country and fact that salmonella is in a lot of raw chicken, some of which is not properly cooked or cross contaminates. However...