REALLY, STOP EATING RAW DOUGH

apparently i missed the 2016 warning about people getting dangerously ill from eating raw cookie dough- and it wasn't the eggs that were the problem. the latest study in the NYTimes article below confirms that salmonella and e.coli can survive in dry, stored wheat flour. this is seriously depressing but i plan to (try) and stop sampling raw baked goods....

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/heal ... Collection®ion=Footer&pgtype=article&version=spotlight&rref=collection%2Fspotlight%2Fsmarter-living

justjoan wrote:apparently i missed the 2016 warning about people getting dangerously ill from eating raw cookie dough- and it wasn't the eggs that were the problem. the latest study in the NYTimes article below confirms that salmonella and e.coli can survive in dry, stored wheat flour. this is seriously depressing but i plan to (try) and stop sampling raw baked goods....

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/heal ... Collection®ion=Footer&pgtype=article&version=spotlight&rref=collection%2Fspotlight%2Fsmarter-living

Bummer.

Good thing this didn't happen when I was in college. Not sure I'd have made it through all four years without chocolate chip cookie dough. We used to laugh at the info on the package that said how many cookies a recipe makes, since we never even got half that many, with the rest disappearing at the raw stage.