57. Edible Flowers

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating edible flowers
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Edible flowers. Benefits and risks pertaining to their consumption - ScienceDirect
• Edible flowers: A review of the nutritional, antioxidant, antimicrobial properties and effects on human health - ScienceDirect
• Comparison of microbial diversity of edible flowers and basil grown with organic versus conventional methods - Canadian Journal of Microbiology
• Edible Flowers Fact Sheet, Colorado State

56. Day Old Poutine

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating day old poutine.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Poutine - Wikipedia
• 5: Doner Kebab — Risky or Not?
• Large Outbreak of Botulism: The Hazardous Baked Potato | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic
• Water Activity (aw) in Foods | FDA
• The Social Bar & Table – Fresh & Local Everyday

55. Dehydrator Beef Jerky

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks making beef jerky in your dehydrator.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• FSIS Compliance Guideline for Meat and Poultry Jerky Produced by Small and Very Small Establishments
• Jerky and Food Safety
• National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I? Dry
• Fate of Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella Species in Ground Beef Jerky | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press
• Fate of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes , and Salmonella typhimurium during Preparation and Storage of Beef Jerky - PubMed

54: Touching Your Face

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of touching your face during the pandemic.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• LPT: Teach yourself to not touch your face throughout the day - you’ll get sick less, as hand to face/mouth contact is one of the most common routes for microbial transmission. : LifeProTips
• Transmission of experimental rhinovirus infection by contaminated surfaces. - Abstract - Europe PMC
• Aerosol Transmission of Rhinovirus Colds | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic

53: Brining Turkey in the Crisper

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of brining your turkey in the produce crisper of your refrigerator.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Randal Oulton on Twitter... turning their crispers into bathtubs for turkeys.
• Brining Safely Will Bring Tender, Flavorful Meat to the Thanksgiving Table | USDA
• Gobble Gobble! | Insatiable Munchies

52: Bulk Soap

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of open, refillable bulk soap containers.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Influence of Soap Characteristics and Food Service Facility Type on the Degree of Bacterial Contamination of Open, Refillable Bulk Soaps | Journal of Food Protection | Allen Press
• Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings
• Urban Dictionary: marry the ketchups
• Bacterial hand contamination and transfer after use of contaminated bulk-soap-refillable dispensers - PubMed

51: Linda's Hot Beets

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of holding unrefrigerated processed beets in your car for 5 hours.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼

Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Love Beets - Healthy Organic Beets, Beet Juice and Beet Powders
• 100% Organic Cooked Beets | Love Beets
• Batavia, New York - Wikipedia
• Geneseo, New York - Wikipedia
• Botulism from Home-Canned Beets.
• Botulism from Home-Canned Beets Outbreak Details: Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database

50: Reusing Wood in the Kitchen

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing wood in the kitchen.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Fast Facts About Cutting Boards and Food Safety in Your Kitchen | NC State News
• Which is Safer? Wood vs. Plastic Cutting Boards | Homegrown | NC State University
• Bacterial Adherence and Viability on Cutting Board Surfaces

49: Reusing Dirty Baby Bibs

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing dirty baby bibs within 4 hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Cronobacter species (formerly known as Enterobacter sakazakii) in powdered infant formula: a review of our current understanding of the biology of this bacterium - Yan - 2012 - Journal of Applied Microbiology - Wiley Online Library

• The human milk microbiome and factors influencing its composition and activity - ScienceDirect

48: John's Old Refrigerated Fried Rice

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating fried rice refrigerated for a long time.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• john roderick on Twitter: "I just ate a bunch of fried rice "..."
• Relationship Between the Heat Resistance of Spores and the Optimum and Maximum Growth Temperatures of Bacillus Species.
• Food Standards Australia - Bacillus cereus

47: Peanut Butter Fingering

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of double dipping a finger into your peanut butter.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Ted Lasso - Wikipedia
• Effect of Biting Before Dipping (Double‐Dipping) Chips on the Bacterial Population of the Dipping Solution

46: Honey Fermented Garlic

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from honey fermented garlic.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Honey Fermented Garlic: A Natural Remedy for Cold and Flu | Yang's Nourishing Kitchen
• Current Food Safety Issues of Home-prepared Vegetables and Herbs Stored in Oil
• Honey - Wikipedia
• pH and Acids in Honey
• Welcome to the Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program

45: Masked Waiters Touching Your Plate

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of masked waiters touching your plate.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• The Lincoln Project on Twitter: "VOTER: Why can’t we have a national mask mandate? TRUMP: Waiters.
• Considerations for Restaurants and Bars | COVID-19 | CDC
• Community and Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 Among Symptomatic Adults ≥18 Years in 11 Outpatient Health Care Facilities — United States, July 2020 | MMWR
• NZ Document on COVID-19 Transmission Via Food

44: Salt Cured Egg Yolks

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating salt cured egg yolks.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Cured Egg Yolks Recipe | Bon Appetit
• Salt Cured Egg Yolks
• Effect of sublethal heat stress on Salmonella Typhimurium virulence
• "salt cured" egg yolk - Google Scholar
• Evaluating the Risk of Contracting Salmonellosis from Egg Yolk 'Parmesan' Based on Water Activity

43: Masks on the Table

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of leaving ones facemask on the table in times of COVID-19.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

42: Reboiling Soup

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating reboiled soup stored at room temperature.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Daring Fireball: Jason Kottke on Dean Allen
• Food Safety Talk 144: They Look and Taste Like Green Turds — Food Safety Talk
• Bending the Rules on Bacteria and Food Safety - The New York Times
• Tyndallization - Wikipedia

41: Butter at Room Temperature

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing butter at room temperature

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Exposure of Listeria monocytogenes within an epidemic caused by butter in Finland - ScienceDirect
• Viability of Pathogenic Organisms in Butter.
• Applied Dairy Microbiology, Second Edition - Google Books
• Can You Leave Butter Out?
• Food Safety During Power Outage | FoodSafety.gov
• Microbiological Safety and Quality of Food - Google Books
• Evaluation and Definition of Potentially Hazardous Foods
• Viability of Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Listeria monocytogenes in butter, yellow fat spreads, and margarine as affected by temperature and physical abuse - ScienceDirect

40: Refrozen Butter

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of refreezing butter.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Which Foods Can be Refrozen and Which Can't - UGA
• The Big Thaw

39: Chapman's Backyard Poultry

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of Ben's backyard (and front yard) poultry flock.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Backyard Poultry Flocks and Salmonellosis: A Recurring, Yet Preventable Public Health Challenge | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Salmonella Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices: A Survey of Backyard Poultry Owners Residing in Seattle, Washington and the Surrounding Metropolitan Area
• Notes from the Field: Environmental Investigation of a Multistate Salmonellosis Outbreak Linked to Live Backyard Poultry from a Mail-Order Hatchery — Michigan, 2018
• Outbreaks of Human Salmonella Infections Associated with Live Poultry, United States, 1990–2014
• WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" Thanksgiving - YouTube
• Food Safety Talk 149: Free-range, Grass-fed Raised Unicorns — Food Safety Talk
• About Risky or Not... and our music by Jonathan Coulton

38: Black Coffee at Room Temperature

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of holding black coffee at room temperature all day.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Antibacterial activity of tea (Camellia sinensis) and coffee (Coffee arabica) with special reference to Salmonella typhimurium. - Abstract - Europe PMC
• Antibacterial Activity of Coffee Extracts and Selected Coffee Chemical Compounds against Enterobacteria | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
• Food Safety Considerations for Coffee and Tea Brewers | Food Safety & Quality Blog
• Death Wish coffee recall: Nitro Cold Brew can kill you