Don't eat raw cookie dough: It could contain E. coli

Health | 293 hits | Dec 09 9:19 pm | Posted by: Strutz

Generations of neophyte bakers have shrugged off warnings about how eating raw cookie dough could make them sick. Now, researchers who investigated a 2009 outbreak of foodborne illness are providing extra backup.

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by Yogi
Sat Dec 10, 2011 4:32 pm
by Yogi
Sat Dec 10, 2011 4:34 pm
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!
by sandorski
Sat Dec 10, 2011 4:38 pm
Screw that. That's the best part.
by commanderkai
Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:53 pm
"sandorski" said
Screw that. That's the best part.

Exactly. Who doesn't love raw cookie dough? Hell they add it in freaking ice cream
by raydan
Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:09 pm
Homemade dough is probably pretty safe, compared to the store-bought stuff.
by ShepherdsDog
Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:45 pm
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.
by jeff744
Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:45 pm
"raydan" said
Homemade dough is probably pretty safe, compared to the store-bought stuff.

I am amazed people actually buy that stuff in the first place.
by classicpegasus
Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:59 pm
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?
by r_p
Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:32 pm
first rim jobs and now cookie dough... is there no simple pleasure left safe from e.coli's far-reaching death grip?
by MacAilbert
Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:33 pm
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.
by andyt
Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:37 pm
AFAIK, the e-coli is on the shell, not in the egg. So just thoroughly wash the egg and you should be OK.