I got it from eating peanut butter once.
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Yeah I did once, like when I was 8. I don't recommend it, vomitting and shitting sucks a lot.
It's not just salmonella from the egg, it's also e coli from the raw flour.
If you want to make yourself cookie dough, remember to bake loose flour for a bit first to kill any microbes in that, too.
though home methods of making the raw flour edible is often inconsistent in terms of how safe it makes the flour, the best practice is to buy cookie dough made to be edible raw, rather than rely on your half-baked attempt at making raw flour edible 😅 (source)
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Protip: do NOT use convection when baking loose flour . If you're going to eat it raw you don't need to use eggs at all (you shouldn't, they don't add any flavour you want here, and are only added to cookies for their protein which helps it set when cooked).
Oh yeah flour is flammable as hell lol. try not to set your kitchen on fire
If you were making cookie dough to be eaten raw, would you maybe substitute some pectin or gelatin to replace the egg, or are we just going with butter, sugar and flour?
The few times I've made it, I didn't replace it with anything. I wouldn't bother using pectin or gelatin. When egg is uncooked it won't have a thickening effect, and that's what you're trying to match. So if the mix is too thick for your liking, add some water or apple sauce as others have said. But this is just for texture and thickness, to your liking.
You can tank both of those things. You might get sick but they probably wont kill you if you're lucky. Cookie dough should have some risk, its the only way to balance it.
I was initially mad at this comment but you're right. Cookie dough is too good. Literally an OP food. The fear of shitting your guts out is the only thing stopping a somewhat reasonable person like me from eating a whole pound of it.
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And use unsweetened applesauce instead of eggs! If you get the cheap, bland stuff there's no difference in flavor, and no risk from uncooked eggs!
Can you pasteurize the dough with sous vide to make it safe to eat but not change the texture?
Eggs are actually a relatively low risk factor for salmonella. The bigger concern is flour; e.coli and salmonella are only able to exist on the surface of things, but flour is all surface area. It’s really good at harboring microbes, because anything on the surface of the grain gets mixed into the flour when it is milled. Raw flour will make you sick more often than raw eggs will.
You can make safe cookie dough by toasting your flour first. Just spread it on a cookie sheet, and pop it in the oven to bake for a few minutes. It’ll add a sort of nutty toasted flavor to the cookie dough, and it makes the flour safe.
Eggs got a bad reputation because the most likely time for people to consume raw eggs is when they’re also consuming raw flour. There is still some risk with the eggs, but it’s nowhere near as bad as people have come to believe.
And lastly, if you’re planning on eating it raw, you don’t even need the eggs. The egg only serves to hold the cookie together and keep the dough from melting into a batter in the oven (because the butter in the dough goes liquid when it gets hot, while egg proteins bind together). If you’re not baking it, that’s not an issue. Just toast your flour, skip the eggs, and your dough is 100% safe.
I make edible cookie dough all the time. You just need to bake or microwave the flour for a couple minutes until it hits 165. It doesn't have eggs, but the odds of catching something from them is super low anyway.
Ah man raw flour is my favorite.
Doubtful, as the cookies normally have butter in them and the sous vide would melt the butter causing issues with the dough.
Can you sous vide the eggs to pasteurize them before you put them in the dough?
Yes, and the flour as well which should make it safe (raw flour has salmonella). The eggs would be better/easier to just buy pasteurized egg whites and yolks though.
What's even better is raw Brownie batter. That shit is fudgy chocolatey goodness that cannot be contained. I use that instead of chocolate syrup over vanilla ice cream and just... you'll never believe how amazing it is. you can warm the batter up in the microwave (without it baking into a brownie) and drizzle it on with a fork. Just do it already
Cook the dry ingredients at 350f/176-177C for a few minutes first and do not add eggs if you are doing this to reduce risks.
Tumblr's got you covered:
eating flour straight form the bag lol
Who the hell is rawdogging their flour??
Do you... do you not?
I've done it before dont judge me
I once saw an episode of my strange addiction where a lady was eating a bag or two of corn starch every day so I’d expect somebody out there could handle flour. Edit: Here is the episode.
Don't yuck someone else's yum!
A bit of raw flour dusting on my cake.
Why flour and not powder sugar?
For that genuine e coli taste.
Hahahaha that's awesome
If that's not love, I dont know what is
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All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.