#1

Vintage Shaver
Seattle, WA
Well, we may be in stay-at-home lockdown, but there's no reason to suffer.  So tonight we had chocolate chip oatmeal cookie dough, eaten right out of a bowl, while we watched the first episode of Trapped, an Icelandic mystery drama TV series from a few years back.  I'm just glad I'm trapped here where I am rather than in the middle of a snowstorm in Iceland.

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John
#2

Member
Central Maine
OK, I'll bite... I've always made cookies out of cookie dough and baked them. Now maybe I live in a cave, but is there a cookie dough intended to be eaten raw?
#3

Vintage Shaver
Seattle, WA
(04-10-2020, 04:19 PM)ShadowsDad Wrote: OK, I'll bite... I've always made cookies out of cookie dough and baked them. Now maybe I live in a cave, but is there a cookie dough intended to be eaten raw?

No, it's not intended. I think it's just an offshoot of the spoon licking that happens when one makes the dough to bake cookies. I believe that it is safe so long as it either doesn't include raw egg or has really fresh egg that one can assume to be free of salmonella and other bacteria. We usually just make it without any egg.
John
#4

Member
Central Maine
Thanks. Understood. Yes, I don't see how it would hurt. If you wanted to add eggs look for certified salmonella free hens. I think that would be easier to find from a small scale egg producer.

There is a wives tale that says one can get worms or some such from eating cookie dough, but I think most wives tales either exist out of ignorance, or to (in this case) keep a childs hands out of the bowl and out of the kitchen (to let mom work).
#5
(This post was last modified: 04-12-2020, 08:10 PM by trashcanmagic.)
eating any American chicken product, eggs or meat, undercooked is always potentially dangerous.

in Japan, especially outside of Tokyo, they'll give you chicken that is still slightly pink. in NY this would get you shut down. we have a fear of undercooked chicken and pork in the US for a good reason though.

that being said, we need to highlight the potentially part of potentially dangerous. properly sourced eggs will make the risk no greater than any other meat that hasnt reached the pasteurization temperature/time thresholds. frankly properly made ice cream has all of the same dangers as cookie dough and yet it's fairly rare that you would get sick from it.

my favorite cookie recipes are the Alison Roman chocolate chip shortbread cookies, or the BA's best brown butter chocolate chip recipe, though neither makes a dough super well suited for eating raw. I find that the toll house recipe, though with those awful chips substituted out for a proper chocolate, is actually ideal for raw dough.
#6
(04-09-2020, 06:37 AM)churchilllafemme Wrote: Well, we may be in stay-at-home lockdown, but there's no reason to suffer.  So tonight we had chocolate chip oatmeal cookie dough, eaten right out of a bowl, while we watched the first episode of Trapped, an Icelandic mystery drama TV series from a few years back.  I'm just glad I'm trapped here where I am rather than in the middle of a snowstorm in Iceland.
Dude, you totally rock!
#7
Interesting as all the ice cream currently in the freezer is "cookie dough"


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