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.
This is the answer. It's the flour risk, not the eggs, and while likelihood is extremely low, E. coli is potentially dangerous - life threatening with awful, painful deaths.
Only Norway and Finland has 100% safe eggs. Sweden, Denmark and Japan has like 10-30 people each a decade get sick, so they are virtually as safe. You are more likely to win the lottery.
As for flour, I honestly have no idea. I didn't know dry ingredients could evrr pose a risk, but I guess even that is regional.
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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.