Nestle frozen cookie dough is enough to make you sick
By adamg - 6/20/09 - 7:58 am
Infected dough has sickened at least four Mass. residents, Channel 5 reports.
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Infected dough has sickened at least four Mass. residents, Channel 5 reports.
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Why....
...would anyone eat raw cookie dough?
You've got to be kidding...
... or didn't you get to lick the spoons from baking as a kid?
But I find the idea of ready-made cookie dough kind of appalling; the whole fun is the stirring/mixing/spooning/scooping of all the ingredients. YMMV (I know my mom didn't enjoy it nearly as much as we did).
I'll eat the raw cookie dough that HerrDoktor Toaster makes any day of the week. Nestle can keep theirs. Heh.
Never
Licked frosting -- but never raw dough.
Not on your planet?
They didn't do that on your planet?
Other people did it....
...but it seemed gross to me.
Because it's good
What should be surprising is that this is an E. coli infection and not a Salmonella one(from the raw egg). E coli infections are from animal sources. When it shows up on vegetables and fruits it's usually because manure fertilizers are used or cross contamination from the water used on the vegetables. In this case, the only animal products are the milk and eggs in the dough. Both items are pasteurized by Nestle, so it's very odd that anything would make it through to the raw dough.
In fact, it's probably safer, on average, to eat raw dough from Nestle than from your own house (where the eggs are not pasteurized).
In fact, it's probably
Industrial food is definitely not safer than getting food you grew/raised/made yourself or from a source you know and can directly ask how it was produced. Think: the recent frozen meal food scare, where now big food producers are saying outright they can't guarantee the food is safe as it is in the package. Or before that, peanut butter, spinach, tomatoes. And most of those diseases never could be traced to the source or isolated because the system's too big.
Granted, the eggs most people buy are also products of the industrial food system, but at least you would know how you handled them in the cookie-making process.
Simply put
Fear of "industrial processing" is overblown and doesn't apply here. The eggs used in Nestle's cookie dough are pasteurized. Unless you're really germ-phobic and buy pasteurized eggs, then whether you're buying them locally, free range, organic, whatever...nothing is being done to wipe out any bacteria on the eggs. Pasteurization works and is better than anything you're going to do otherwise because eggs are dirty and have a high chance of having come into contact with fecal material...fact of life. While evil "industrialization" of food may ruin flavor, add chemical preservatives, and even increase risk for some problems, it's not true in this case due to pasteurization.
Because Ben and Jerry
put it in their ice cream.
Actually, they put it in their ice cream because people eat it. I am still mourning their chocolate peanut butter cookie dough ice cream.
I try to keep my son from eating the mix after eggs go in, but that's like telling the tide to go out.
It just may be your lucky day
Go out - NOW - and find some of their new Elton John-related "Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road". Chocolate ice cream, with peanut butter cookie dough, peanut brittle chunks and fudge chips. But leave some at the grocery store for me.
Holy cow that sounds
amazingly, awfully good. Why oh why did you post this?!
They have it for dessert
They have it for dessert after eating raw fish.
yum yum
Raw cookie dough, cake batter... ate it all as a child. As a matter of fact, sometimes I would mix up a batch of Duncan Hines yellow cake and eat it without even bothering to bake any portion of it.