I eat raw cookie dough all the time and my wife flips out. I tell her that if raw cookie dough was bad, they wouldn't make "chocolate chip cookie dough" ice cream. Who is right?
2007-09-09 09:03:44 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
You are going to get answers on both sides of the issue and I really don't know which side is right.
However, there is a risk of salmonella in eating raw cookie dough containing uncooked or unpasteurized eggs.
I believe the ice cream makers get around this problem by using cookie dough made with pasteurized eggs.
If the cookie dough wrapper specifies pasteurized eggs, all is copacetic, salmonella-wise. If it does not say pasteurized eggs, you really ought to stop, or at least greatly reduce the amount of cookie dough you eat.
Even if your cookie dough is made with pasteurized eggs, you probably ought to limit the amount you eat. Besides the salmonella danger, you are ingesting lots of useless calories, and that is not good for your waistline, blood pressure, or cholesterol level.
Doc Hudson
2007-09-09 09:29:12 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Hudson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-12 20:22:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you eat a little bit, it won't hurt you. But the raw eggs can make you really sick. Cookie dough ice cream has cookie dough in small enough portions so that it won't make you sick.
Your best bet is, if you do eat cookie dough, only eat a small amount, such as a little spoonful.
2007-09-09 10:03:46 · answer #3 · answered by missy. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before proper storage times, it was possible to develop internal worms from the flour in cookie dough. Also, raw eggs are sometimes full of bacteria that may make you sick. That is why she is concerned. Plus, if you eat all the cookie dough, there will be fewer baked cookies.
2007-09-09 09:30:46 · answer #4 · answered by bin there dun that 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no thats fine but then again watch out for eggs. If raw could be bad to eat cookie dough when not baked
2007-09-09 09:12:11 · answer #5 · answered by airmonkey120 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah it is harmful, even eating it in ice cream is not safe. dough is a mess uncooked ingredients like raw eggs and, as you probably know, raw eggs will make you sick if you eat alot. you can get worms and/or food poisoning. i feel for you thogh. cookie dough is REALLY good!!!
2007-09-09 09:16:54 · answer #6 · answered by Person;) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my daughter is 10 years old and she loves eatign raw cookie dough.. Why? i have no idea. But i dont let her eat to much at one time, so far she has never got sick from it. I would think that if you eat alot it would have already made you sick...
And if it has raw eggs, dont some of teh body builders eat raw egg so i dont think that would matter...
2007-09-09 09:18:45 · answer #7 · answered by Jennifer J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only danger is raw eggs, but I eat dishes with raw eggs pretty often. No problem thus far.
2007-09-09 09:16:16 · answer #8 · answered by chicabonita 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as long as u eat the kind in the tube u buy form the sotre its ok (as long as it isnt in excess) the cookie dough from the store is pasturized so its ok to eat
2007-09-09 11:06:42 · answer #9 · answered by Bookybell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way it is harmful is if you eat too much of it an you have to eat like two big batches if that
2007-09-09 09:17:24 · answer #10 · answered by Kat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋