• @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    You can make safe edible cookie dough pretty easily . The eggs aren’t the only issue, it’s the flour itself. If you bake it at like 275F for 30 mins in a sheet pan it’ll sterilize it. For edible cookie dough that won’t be baked you don’t even need eggs.

    Having said that, I too have eaten my share of regular cookie dough.

    • Mayor Poopington
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      22 months ago

      Had no idea raw flour wasn’t safe. The store bought safe cookie dough always tastes like cardboard to me

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        2 months ago

        Starting with my grandmother, I’ve been warned by the various bakers in my life for about 50 years that the various kinds of raw dough I have wheedled them into giving me or snuck off of their work area will give me a stomach ache or cause other issues. The most recent time I was warned in this way was surely less than 2 months ago.

        So far so good, not a single problem, and I never pass up a chance to eat uncooked batter or dough. (Edited to add - if you haven’t tried basic homemade pie crust dough you haven’t lived. It’s not sweet, it’s just good.)

        I am absolutely not saying the risk doesn’t exist, but the chance of it seems so minuscule (based on my anecdotal lifelong experience) that I only ever think about it when someone brings it up.

        If I bought something prepackaged on a grocery store shelf, like from nabisco or whatever, that was undercooked, I wouldn’t eat it. From the kitchen of a relative or right from a bakery - has never given me pause.

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            32 months ago

            Flour is flammable and light. If the fan makes a bunch of it fly around in your oven the heating element could ignite it. Search YouTube for “flour fire”.

            Probably not super dangerous at if you’re just baking a sheet pan of flour, but good to be safe.

            • Mayor Poopington
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              12 months ago

              Well that’s much more catastrophic than I expected.

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        32 months ago

        It tastes like cardboard because you’re eating it refrigerated.

        Cookie dough you make yourself is often warm from the melted butter