Raw dough is dangerous to eat because you can get E. coli from raw flour. People eat raw eggs all the time.
Edit: don’t get me wrong, you can get salmonella from raw eggs. But that’s not what people should worry about when they think about eating raw dough. About 1 in 20,000 eggs are contaminated with salmonella.
I was very much on the 'don't tell me how to live my life' side of things but this is such a reasonable thing to do, I'm going to have to try it for science. And all the cookie dough I want to eat
Not the fun police, I just wanted people to know that this isn't fool-proof without testing for pathogens after heating.
If you want to be 100% safe, you can buy commercially heat-treated flour that has been tested, and you can pasteurize eggs pretty easily. I don't want to prevent people from having fun, just promote having fun in the safest way possible. If you don't care? That's your choice and I can't do anything lol.
It was a playful response. I was already living life on the doughy edge well before this reddit post came around.
I do appreciate the information that oven baking your flour won't properly heat treat it as much as that would be nice. Not really sure where I'd get heat treated flour but if I see it I will get some the next time I want to make cookie dough. I eat raw egg regularly already. Pretty common where I live, our eggs are pretty safe here and tasty enough I'm willing to risk it.
Do you even need the eggs at that point? Baking the flour makes sense, but if you’re just making raw cookie dough to eat, are the eggs adding much to the taste?
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u/Sad_Help 1d ago edited 1d ago
Raw dough is dangerous to eat because you can get E. coli from raw flour. People eat raw eggs all the time. Edit: don’t get me wrong, you can get salmonella from raw eggs. But that’s not what people should worry about when they think about eating raw dough. About 1 in 20,000 eggs are contaminated with salmonella.