197. Raw Meat Sashimi

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating raw chicken meat sashimi.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Benjamin Schrager on Twitter: "My paper on raw chicken in Japan just got published!! Risky but Raw: On (Not) Regulating One of the Most High-Risk Dishes in Japan Thank you to @Gastronomica for the smooth process and reviewers for their insightful feedback. https://t.co/2mp9FpESDo" / Twitter
• Risky but Raw | Gastronomica | University of California Press
• Assessment of the dose-response relationship of Campylobacter jejuni - PubMed

196. Raw Eggo Waffles

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating raw frozen Eggo waffles.

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

• (Ryan Dlugosz on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman I always assumed frozen waffles were ready to eat (see pic). Is it #riskyornot to eat them frozen? Fwiw I’m not a monster and I always lightly toast mine… but one of the kids prefers them frozen! https://t.co/o6PLdlVwYC" / Twitter
• Kellogg Co. recalls Eggo waffles after routine test shows Listeria | Food Safety News
• Food Safety Talk 12: Dueling Experts — Food Safety Talk
• Is Kellogg clueless about food safety? Public relations? | barfblog
• 'Stranger Things' caused an Eggo boom. Now sales are waffling
• Siracusa on Toasters — Liss is More
• Sunbeam 4 Slice Extra-wide Slot Toaster - Black Tssbtr4sbk : Target

195. Dishwasher Salmon

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating salmon cooked in a dishwasher.

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

• Dishwasher salmon - Wikipedia
• Roasted Salmon | Partnership for Food Safety Education
• Dishwasher Cooking: Make Your Dinner While Cleaning The Plates : The Salt : NPR
• FSIS Salmonella Compliance Guidelines for Small and Very Small Meat and Poultry Establishments that Produce Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Products and Revised Appendix A | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• A method to evaluate factors influencing the microbial reduction in domestic dishwashers - Brands - 2020 - Journal of Applied Microbiology - Wiley Online Library
• Vincent Price on Johnny Carson - Cooking Segment - Nov, 21, 1975 - YouTube
• The Joy of Dishwasher Cooking | Mental Floss

194. Eating the Green Stuff From a Lobster

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating that green stuff from lobsters.

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

• To Eat or Not to Eat: Lobster Tomalley | Cook's Illustrated
• Food Safety Talk 226: So I've Got That Goin' for Me — Food Safety Talk
• Panera Bread Is Now Selling Lobster Rolls
• The Massachusetts Bay industrial waste site: A preliminary survey...

193. Undercooked Meat With a Low Level of a Pathogen Incubating in a Mouth for 12 Hours

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from having undercooked meat with a low level of a pathogen incubating in a mouth for 12 hours.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Jason Folster☣️ on Twitter: "@benjaminchapman @bugcounter Hopefully not but sure. Undercooked meat with a low level of pathogen incubating in a mouth for 12 hours. This conversation makes me want to floss IMMEDIATELY. 🤢" / Twitter
• 188. Reused Chewing Gum — Risky or Not?
• In silico analysis of the competition between Streptococcus sanguinis and Streptococcus mutans in the dental biofilm - Valdebenito - 2018 - Molecular Oral Microbiology - Wiley Online Library
• Oral Infection by Staphylococcus Aureus in Patients Affected by White Sponge Nevus: A Description of Two Cases Occurred in the Same Family
• Nosocomial Infections - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
• Opportunistic infection - Wikipedia

Bonus Content: we had to delay our recording by a couple of days because Ben blew out his voice coaching hockey. As bonus content to all our listeners I want to share this delightful clip that Ben was kind enough to record.

192. Defrosting a Turkey in a Hot Tub

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of defrosting a turkey in a hot tub.

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

• chris ernt on Twitter: "Hey @bugcounter, defrosting a turkey in a hot tub, risky or not?" / Twitter
• Should You Use Chlorine or Bromine to Sanitize Your Hot Tub? - pHin
• How To Cook a Completely Frozen Turkey for Thanksgiving | Kitchn
• Let's Talk Turkey—A Consumer Guide to Safely Roasting a Turkey | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• Consumer Food Handling Recommendations: Is thawing of turkey a food safety issue?

191. Whole Veggies and Raw Meat in a Home Refrigerator at 50°F for Four Days *

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating whole veggies and raw meat in a home refrigerator at 50°F for four days

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

* Please listen to the entire episode, lots of necessary equivocation.

• Comprehensive evaluation of temperatures within home refrigerators
• Emergency Action Plan for Retail Food Establishment | Conference-Developed Guides and Documents | Conference for Food Protection
• Consumer Home Refrigeration Practices: Results of a Web-Based Survey | Journal of Food Protection
• ComBase
• Validation of Mathematical Models for Salmonella Growth in Raw Ground Beef under Dynamic Temperature Conditions Representing Loss of Refrigeration | Journal of Food Protection
• The Big Lebowski (1998) - IMDb

190. Fried Chicken at Room Temperature for 4 Hours

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating fried chicken held at room temperature for 4 hours.

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

• ComBase
• FSIS Compliance Guideline for Stabilization (Cooling and Hot-Holding) of Fully and Partially Heat-Treated RTE and NRTE Meat and Poultry Products Produced by Small and Very Small Establishments and Revised Appendix B June 2017 Compliance Guideline | Food Safety and Inspection Service

189. Epoxy Hotdog

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating a hotdog encased in epoxy for months.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Home of the epoxy hotdog, for all your epoxy hotdog needs!
• Putting A Whole Hot Dog In Epoxy Resin | DIY Epoxy Resin Art - YouTube
• 10 month epoxy hot dog update!
• Microbiological safety of processed meat products formulated with low nitrite concentration — A review
• Epoxy: A Complete Guide - Copps Industries

188. Reused Chewing Gum

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing chewing gum.

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

• Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?) - Wikipedia)
• • U.S.: consumption of chewing gum / bubble gum 2020 | Statista
• E: Water Activity Values of Select Food Ingredients and Products - Water Activity in Foods - Wiley Online Library
• Staphylococci in the oral flora of healthy children and those receiving treatment for malignant disease
• The wasted chewing gum bacteriome - PubMed
• Quantification and qualification of bacteria trapped in chewed gum - PubMed
• Gum Wall - Wikipedia

187. Recalled Listeria Muffins

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating muffins recalled due to environmental contamination by Listeria monocytogenes.

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

• Veronica on Twitter: even MUFFINS are risky?!
• Muffins Sold At Evanston Sam's Club Recalled Due To Listeria | Evanston, IL Patch
• Give and Go Prepared Foods (U.S.A.) Corp. Conducts Voluntary Recall of Certain Muffin Products Due to Possible Health Risk | FDA
• Give and Go Prepared Foods photos
• Food Safety Talk 242: Invisible Poop Particles
• Listeria monocytogenes Dose Response Revisited

186. Barehanded Lemon Slices in Drinks at a Bar

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from a drink where the bartender has handled lemon slices with their bare hands.

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

• Transfer of Escherichia Coli to Lemons Slices and Ice during Handling - Journal of Food Research
• Survival and Growth of Salmonella and Shigella on Sliced Fresh Fruit | Journal of Food Protection
• Survival of Salmonella on Lemon and Lime Slices and Subsequent Transfer to Beverages - International Association for Food Protection
• Microbial flora on restaurant beverage lemon slices - PubMed
• Is the lemon slice in your G&T harbouring bacteria? - Biomaster Protected | Blog

185. Tamago Kake Gohan

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of tamago kake gohan (cooking an egg with hot rice).

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

Note that Don says “not risky” at 5:58, but from the context it’s clear he means “risky”, which he later confirms. Thanks to listener Nimoy for pointing this out.

• Tamago Kake Gohan Recipe - Love and Lemons
• 31: Rice Left in a Warming Rice Cooker Over Night — Risky or Not?
• Parameters for Determining Inoculated Pack/Challenge Study Protocols†,‡ | Journal of Food Protection
• eggs - Risky or Not?
• "Letterkenny" Crack An Ag (TV Episode 2019) - IMDb

184. Cooked Tapioca at Room Temperature Overnight

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cooked tapioca left at room temperature overnight.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Jennifer on Twitter: Instruction for (many brands of) tapioca pearls say after boiling for 20 mins, to remove the pot from the stove and let it rest on the counter overnight and then bring to a boil again in the morning Is this unsafe?
• Watch Jensplaining | Prime Video
• Tapioca - Wikipedia
• How to Store Tapioca Pearls (Boba) - Cooked & Uncooked - HighKitchenIQ
• Moisture sorption isotherms of fufu and tapioca at different temperatures - ScienceDirect
• Survival and Growth of Foodborne Pathogens during Cooking and Storage of Oriental-Style Rice Cakes | Journal of Food Protection
• Small Pearl Tapioca :: Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods
• How To Cook White Tapioca Pearls (Step by Step) - Hungry Huy

183. Wine Bottles From Flooded Areas

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from drinking wine submerged in flood waters.

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

• Randal Oulton on Twitter: Are these wines safe?
• Ahr (wine region) - Wikipedia)
• Food safety before and after a flood - Safe Food & Water
• Floods: Key Tips for Consumers About Food and Water Safety | FDA
• The Pros & Cons of Different Wine Closures | Wine Enthusiast Magazine

182. Dashboard Cookies

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of making making cookies on the dashboard of a car.

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

• Andrew H on Twitter
• An Assessment of Time/Temperature Combinations for Salmonella Lethality Achieved when Baking Cookies in Vehicles (IAFP 2016 Annual Meeting)
• Starch Gelatinization in the Presence of Emulsifiers. A Morphological Study of Wheat Starch
• Thermal Inactivation of Salmonella on Sesame-topped Bread during Baking Using High and Low Oven Humidity
• A Thermal Process Lethality Model for Low Water Activity Food
• Validation of Baking to Reduce Coliform Counts and Salmonella in Cookie Dough
• Low water activity refrigerated cookie dough - Google Patents

181. Reusing Marinade

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing marinade.

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

• marinade | Partnership for Food Safety Education
• Ask FSIS: Can you reuse meat marinade?

180. Stinky Sous Vide

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating stinky sous vide.

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

• How To Prevent A Bad Smell With Long And Low Sous-Vide Cooks – Stefan's Gourmet Blog
• Heat resistance of Desulfotomaculum nigrificans spores in soy protein infant formula preparations
• Food Safety Talk 79: You’re Into Botulism Country (with Merlin Mann) — Food Safety Talk
• Effects of a novel three-step sous-vide cooking and subsequent chilled storage on the microbiota of beef steaks - ScienceDirect
• https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/import/Salmonella-Compliance-Guideline-SVSP-RTE-Appendix-A.pdf

179. Downy Mildew Basil Pesto

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating pesto made with basil infected with downy mildew.

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

• Fresh Basil Pesto Recipe
• Downy Mildew on Basil | University of Maryland Extension
• Downy mildew disease promotes the colonization of romaine lettuce by Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica

178. Old Sprouted Potatoes

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating old sprouted potatoes.

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

• Are Sprouted Potatoes Safe?
• Potato glycoalkaloids and adverse effects in humans: an ascending dose study - ScienceDirect
• Horrific Tales of Potatoes That Caused Mass Sickness and Even Death | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
• Is It Safe to Eat a Potato That Has Sprouted? | North Carolina Cooperative Extension
• Potatoes . . . when to toss? • AnswerLine • Iowa State University Extension and Outreach