Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 4 days agoYou can make safe edible cookie dough pretty easily . The eggs aren’t the only issue, it’s the flour itself. If you bake it at like 275F for 30 mins in a sheet pan it’ll sterilize it. For edible cookie dough that won’t be baked you don’t even need eggs.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Had no idea raw flour wasn’t safe. The store bought safe cookie dough always tastes like cardboard to me
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Starting with my grandmother, I’ve been warned by the various bakers in my life for about 50 years that the various kinds of raw dough I have wheedled them into giving me or snuck off of their work area will give me a stomach ache or cause other issues. The most recent time I was warned in this way was surely less than 2 months ago.
So far so good, not a single problem, and I never pass up a chance to eat uncooked batter or dough.
I am absolutely not saying the risk doesn’t exist, but the chance of it seems so minuscule (based on my anecdotal lifelong experience) that I only ever think about it when someone brings it up.
If I bought something prepackaged on a grocery store shelf, like from nabisco or whatever, that was undercooked, I wouldn’t eat it. From the kitchen of a relative or right from a bakery - has never given me pause.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
If you bake dry flour , remember to NOT use convection.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Because of the fan?
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Flour is flammable and light. If the fan makes a bunch of it fly around in your oven the heating element could ignite it. Search YouTube for “flour fire”.
Probably not super dangerous at if you’re just baking a sheet pan of flour, but good to be safe.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 days ago
It tastes like cardboard because you’re eating it refrigerated.
Cookie dough you make yourself is often warm from the melted butter