You’ve probably heard eating raw dough is dangerous because it means eating raw eggs - which can give you salmonella. “So you may not link it back to that cookie dough exposure.” Why is raw cookie dough dangerous? “You can eat cookie dough on Saturday and not come down with the stomach bug until two days, three or four days later,” Reynolds says. And even if you think you’ve never gotten sick from indulging in the dough, there’s still a chance you did and simply didn’t associate the two events. While the decision is up to your own risk assessment, it is important to know that eating cookie dough isn’t risk-free, Reynolds says. “When you prepare homemade dough for cookies, cakes, and bread, you may be tempted to taste a bite before it is fully baked,” says a CDC website on the topic. Other authorities, like the CDC, will say it’s never okay to eat. Some will suggest that eating raw cookie dough is okay in moderation or if its ingredients are fresh and haven't been recalled. There are some mixed messages on the web, and probably in your own kitchen, about whether or not it’s really unsafe to eat raw cookie dough. When it comes to eating cookie dough before it’s baked, she tells Inverse “it’s not a risk I would take.” Can you eat raw cookie dough? Kelly Reynolds, a professor of environmental science and public health at the University of Arizona who specializes in food safety, says people often forget there are two ingredients in a homemade dough that put you at risk. Ultimately, it comes down to exactly what you’re eating - a recipe whipped up in the kitchen or specially made edible dough. It’s a confusing situation alongside cookie dough confectionaries and a special line of cookie dough made by Toll House you’re encouraged to eat.
Clinging to the tip of a spoon or to the edge of an electric beater, there’s no stronger temptation in the home kitchen than to sneak a taste of the leftover dough as a reward for a job well done.īut competing against this desire to enjoy cooking dough is a nagging caution: Isn’t raw cooking dough bad for you? After all, the CDC has a whole “ Say No To Raw Dough!” campaign. Studded with chocolate chips and soft to the touch from whipped butter and sugar, fresh cookie dough is a beautiful sight.
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