[Newsbot]

Title: Don't eat raw cookie dough: It could contain E. coli
Category: Health
Posted By: Strutz
Date: 2011-12-09 21:19:43
Canadian

[Yogi]

[Yogi]

I had a serious bout of Ecoli several years ago from eating raw hamburgher. ( Tar-tar). I would never do anything again that could possibly put me in that situation again!

[sandorski]

Screw that. That's the best part.

[commanderkai]

sandorski sandorski:

Screw that. That's the best part.

Exactly. Who doesn't love raw cookie dough? Hell they add it in freaking ice cream

[raydan]

Homemade dough is probably pretty safe, compared to the store-bought stuff.

[ShepherdsDog]

made ginger snaps yesterday and I got the bowl scrapings. I needed to know if I had to add more ginger and cayenne pepper, and tasting the dough is the only way to tell. I also made a gingerbread house with my son and we used royal icing to hold everything together...that's egg white and powdered sugar. I just heat it up to 160 on a double boiler to pasteurize it because it's going to be sitting out. All the health and safety gestapo would have fits if they knew I've eaten homemade cheese, butter, fresh unrefrigerated eggs and drank unpasteurized milk and cream. Until you've tried it, you don't know the flavour you are missing. I also used to eat a lot of wild game too and homemade preserves(pickles, jellies, jams etc)......and finally.....gasp...homemade eggnog.

[jeff744]

raydan raydan:

Homemade dough is probably pretty safe, compared to the store-bought stuff.

I am amazed people actually buy that stuff in the first place.

[classicpegasus]

I'm sure this won't stop people from indulging in one of life's simplest pleasures. Hell, it's the holiday season right now! Who cares if you have to pay a visit to your nearest Toronto dentist?

I mean, I'll take the advisory seriously, but people need to realize that over a dozen everyday foods carry the risk of E. coli infection. Do researchers really expect us to think twice before having a glass of orange juice in the morning?

[r_p]

first rim jobs and now cookie dough... is there no simple pleasure left safe from e.coli's far-reaching death grip?

[MacAilbert]

Try making cookie dough with milk replacing the eggs. You can't bake it, but it tastes the same as regular cookie dough and doesn't contain raw eggs.

[andyt]

AFAIK, the e-coli is on the shell, not in the egg. So just thoroughly wash the egg and you should be OK.