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Do Not Eat the Cookie Dough

Do You Eat Raw Cookie Dough?

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tharpdevenport

tharpdevenport

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No, seriously, now the government here is telling people to not eat raw cookie dough.

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Anyway, I predict this will be about as successful as getting people to stop farting.

I bet a number of us eat/ate raw cookie dough. Heck, I did it when I was young and never once got sick. I used to buy boxes of powdered white frosting mix from "Jiffy" and eat it in powdered form (can't now, for some oddball reason, there isn't any for sale in ovr a hundreed miles of me).

I was surprised when a few months ago the packaging to Pilsbury Reese Piece cookies had a new thing printed on the front: do not eat raw cookie dough.

Yeah, good luck with that.


So, do we have any raw cookie dough eaters here?
 
The official position of Cookies and Cake is to eat the raw cookie dough, same as for cake batter. If you aren't moved to eat more, your cookies and cake probably aren't worth baking anyway. That said, everything in moderation, and boys and girls don't forget to get that exercise! ;)
 
I've seen people drink eggs and live. A bit of cookie dough probably wont hurt.
 
Heaps of different cultures serve dishes with raw egg in them. And those people seem perfectly fine. Screw you gov't, we will never stop eating cookie dough.

The trick is, it's so rich, you can only eat so much of it anyway, amirite?
 
tharpdevenport said:
No, seriously, now the government here is telling people to not eat raw cookie dough.

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Why is the USDA doing their job and making food safety recommendations something you and Right Wing media are so incredulous of and threatened by? If people want to mainline cookie dough directly into their asses they're still free to do so as the Founding Fathers intended when Jesus helped them write the Constitution. This is simply saying that maybe it's not the best idea, because there's an elevated risk of salmonella or E.coli, and that children (who most typically eat cookie dough) are at greater risk if they fall ill from those.

Which your anecdote about "I did it and never got sick" does nothing to change. No one's saying that if you eat cookie dough you're definitely going to instantly explode in flames, just that you can possibly get sick, so do so at your own risk. Providing guidelines like that have been the job of the USDA and the FDA for decades, but all of a sudden it's treated like some sort of insidious plot to deny our freedom to eat unhealthy crap.

Likewise, every time Michelle Obama tries to get children engaged and eating healthy the Right acts like she's some Che Guevera-esque propagandist brainwashing our kids, even though projects of that sort have been the purview of First Ladies for decades. God forbid anyone acknowledge that the childhood obesity situation in this country is out of hand, lest they be accused of subverting capitalism and freedumb.

I was surprised when a few months ago the packaging to Pilsbury Reese Piece cookies had a new thing printed on the front: do not eat raw cookie dough.
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Mother of God. Now I truly know what it's like to live under Stalin or Mao.
 
America is pretty much the only country that requires eggs to be stored under refrigeration. Naturally we do this to prevent bacterial growth in the egg.

In the real world bacterial contamination in eggs is fairly slim. Not impossible, but slim. If one is really concerned about it use pasteurized eggs.

A bit of cookie dough eating from the beaters of the mixer, or the spoon, or whatever isn't likely to cause the vast majority of people any harm so long as the eggs have been stored properly and aren't too old when used.
 
I like eating the dough better than the cookies that come from it. :drool: :)

@billcosby: Yeah, it is rich. That's why I wouldn't recommend eating any more than one package at a time.

And if you eat the kind that you buy off the shelf, then there's no risk, is there?
 
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Is this really new information? You're not supposed to eat raw eggs because there's a risk of salmonella. Technically, you shouldn't even eat over-easy eggs for the same reason.

I still eat them. Plenty of people still eat them. We know the risk, and we do it anyway. Also, don't eat Halloween candy because there might be razor blades in it.
 
I never eat anything with unprocessed raw egg in it.

I have eaten ice cream with cookie dough in it, but that's been treated.

Anything chicken related is a food poisoning nightmare. We've had all sorts of trouble here in the U.K....
 
Isn't is probably because of the raw eggs? I mean I love the stuff as much as anyone but I think that it's common knowledge that raw eggs have some stuff that in theory could get you sickish.
 
Raw eggs in and of themselves are not dangerous. They are only dangerous if they've been contaminated with a food-born pathogen like salmonella.
 
One of my favorite ice cream flavors is Cookie Dough. Does that count?

But I usually avoid licking any batter with raw eggs in them. If you do get sick, it just isn't worth it.
 
I used to eat raw cookie dough. I stopped after I died several times. Wait, that never happened.

The recommendation against eating cookie dough is probably a good one for people with compromised immune systems. For me personally, I'm more weary of probiotics kept in the same open refrigerated section. I used Yakult, etc. on and off for years to some benefit. However, I quit using any after like the third time I got sick. If ever I buy that stuff now, I only get it from a local ethnic grocery that keep it a refrigerator with a door.

JES said:
One of my favorite ice cream flavors is Cookie Dough. Does that count?
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I'd imagine not since the cookie dough in ice cream should be kept frozen (and not hospitable for bacterial growth).

Relayer1 said:
I have eaten ice cream with cookie dough in it, but that's been treated.
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This is interesting. How is cookie dough in ice cream treated?
 
I don't really come into contact with much raw cookie dough, as I never make cookies or exist in places where cookies are being made.

However, I regularly put raw eggs into my protein shakes.
 
I bake quite a lot, it's a hobby of mine, and I occasionally taste the mix carefully when I'm making it, when the eggs have been added. I know it's not risk free but I don't take mouthfulls of the stuff.

Just letting people know there's a small risk, and recommend they don't do it, simply because of that is not suddenly facism.

Idiotic article.
 
At Christmas the only cookies I make are shortbread biscuits which don't have eggs in them.

With other recipes I will sometimes use applesauce instead of eggs if the recipe will work with the substitution.
 
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