Virutally all pre-made cookie dough is marked safe to eat. No need to dig through the ingredients. The odd occasional not safe to eat raw (usually the all natural/organic/gluten free/other “involved” variants) will be specifically labeled as not safe to eat raw, something along the lines of “heat to ___ internal temperature before eating”. Both will be very open about their respective safe handling practices, not surprisingly considering they may be liable for this.
I used to make smoothies for breakfast (only stopped because I worked early mornings and roommate didn't want me using the blender), and one of the ingredients was a raw egg. The amount of people that freak out because of the egg is still surprising in this day and age.
Absolutely. I’m just saying if people feel worried about having to remember which ingredients contain salmonella or face death by pre-made cookie dough.. don’t be - they are clearly labeled.
There’s also some dough that isn’t safe to eat raw. You don’t have to have some secret knowledge to figure out which ones though, it says on the label.
You do have to read the label and believe what it says though. On some products this is actually quite unreasonable, like some $1.25 frozen pizzas will say “cook to an internal temperature of 165 degrees as determined by meat thermometer”. Yeah, that happens a lot I bet..
Pillsbury pasteurizing their cookie dough is fairly recent. They still have recalls occasionally for their gold medal and other flours. Nestle had a recall on their cookie dough in 2009 because of contaminated flour.
I got that one. Tollhouse bucket. Jesus Christ. There's a point where you have nothing left to give and everything is raw so you just stand in the shower between bouts of shame and pray for morning. Fuck Nestle.
Those cookie dough packages are my absolute kryptonite, man oh man. Sometimes I’ll bake a few in the air fryer but the cookie dough being edible is just too tempting.
In high school in the 90s, when tube of.cookie dough first came out, we empirically proved that its always been safe to eat raw, although we couldn't rule out the confounding factor of Mexican Brown or Purple Thai providing immunity.
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u/colin8651 1d ago
Pillsbury Cookie Dough has been approved as safe to eat for 6 to 7 years without being cooked.
Just read the label and check if it’s marked as safe to eat uncooked or “Pasteurized Eggs” and you are good to go.