257. Sous Vide Brisket for One Month at 131 °F
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks eating sous vide brisket cooked for one month at 131 °F.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
256. Sniffing Milk Instead Using Expiration Dates
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sniffing milk instead using expiration dates.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Morrisons scraps use by dates on milk in favour of sniff test | News | The Grocer
- Short communication: Bacterial ecology of high-temperature, short-time pasteurized milk processed in the United States - ScienceDirect
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a cause of infectious diarrhoea - PubMed
- Identification and Pathogenic Potential of Clinical Bacillus and Paenibacillus Isolates - PubMed
255. Lining Wooden Beer Casks With Pine Pitch in Czech Tradition
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of lining wooden beer casks with pine pitch in Czech tradition.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- The Caipirinha: Fun to Make, Easy to Drink, Hard to Pronounce - Article - FineCooking
- How to Make Pine Rosin Potatoes
- Toxic Woods, British Journal of Dermatology
- Familial Sarcoidosis: Epidemiological Aspects with Notes on a Possible Relationship to the Chewing of Pine Pitch | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
- Google Translate of "Untersuchungen über gesundheitsschädigende Hölzer"
- How to Make Pine Pitch
- Historical Notes on Barrel Pitching | Community | BeerAdvocate
- Brewerey u Bansethu - Review of U Bansethu, Prague, Czech Republic - Tripadvisor
- History Byte – Barrel Pitching – The Black Creek Growler
- Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Lining casks with pitch
254. Do It Yourself Pizza Oven
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using a do it yourself pizza oven from TikTok.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
253. Scott's Ambiguously Sealed Mincemeat
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from a jar of ambiguously sealed mincemeat send from listener Scott.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Scott Lougheed on Twitter: "Opened up a jar of last year’s mincemeat. Ambiguous seal. No signs of spoilage. Ate a teaspoon: Tastes good. 36hrs passed and no sign of botulism (or other illness). Risky or not @benjaminchapman and @bugcounter?" / Twitter
- Recipes | Mary Berry
- Mincemeat - Wikipedia
- National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I? Can Fruits
- Suet - Wikipedia
- Christmas Brandied Mince Tarts | King Arthur Baking
- Internet Goes Wild After Photo of Sqirl’s Moldy Jam Goes Viral - Eater LA
252. Taste the TV
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of licking Taste the TV.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Randal Oulton on Twitter: "@bugcounter risky or not https://t.co/1wiQ8anaKR" / Twitter
Taste the TV: Japan invents lickable screen to imitate food flavours | Japan | The Guardian
Tasty TV: Japanese professor creates flavourful screen | Reuters
- Taste the TV: Japanese professor invents lickable TV screen | wtsp.com
- Smell-O-Vision - Wikipedia
251. Aaron's Black Eyed Peas
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating properly stored rehydrated black eye peas not boiled for 20 minutes.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "@PulsedAlmondboy @benjaminchapman I have so many questions. It seems that these are already cooked. Why does the label recommend washing? The directions say boil uncovered for 20 minutes, but then it also says don't overcook. Boiling for 20 minutes sure seems like overcooking to me." / Twitter
- Black Eye Peas | Sunny Creek Farm
- Traditional Southern New Year's Day Menu - A Southern Soul
250. Pasta With Sauce and Turkey Left Out Overnight
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating pasta with sauce and turkey left out overnight.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
249. Bringing Frozen Unrefrigerated Peameal Bacon Across the Border
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks bringing frozen unrefrigerated peameal bacon across the Canada/US border by car.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
248. Eating Raw Bacon
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating raw cured bacon.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "@mathowie @busblog Hey Matt, this is a great question. As raw meats go, bacon is pretty low risk. Based on this research done by my colleague Cathy Cutter @drkitty92 and her graduate student https://t.co/QgxuvlT5Au it looks like conventional bacon is pretty good at inhibiting pathogens." / Twitter
- Investigation of Quality Attributes and Inhibition of Foodborne Pathogens in “No-Nitrate or Nitrite-Added” Bacon
- Risk Assessment of Human Toxoplasmosis Associated with the Consumption of Pork Meat in Italy - Condoleo - 2018 - Risk Analysis - Wiley Online Library
- Myth: The Use of Celery Powder to Cure Some Meats is Misleading
- What Will Happen If You Eat Undercooked Bacon?
247. Feeding Breadcrumbs Older Than Your Kid to Your Kid
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of accidentally feeding rancid breadcrumbs to your kids.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
246. Re-Using Plastic Bags
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks re-using plastic bags.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
245. Licking an Ice Sculpture
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of licking an ice sculpture.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Veronica Bryant (@NoroNerd) / Twitter
- Mary Kathrynn (@marydidyaknow) / Twitter
- Microbiological quality of ice used to refrigerate foods - ScienceDirect
- Ice as a vehicle for diarrheagenic Escherichia coli - ScienceDirect
- Ice sculpture - Wikipedia
- Multi-pathogen waterborne disease outbreak associated with a dinner cruise on Lake Michigan - PubMed
- Detection of Norovirus in Saliva Samples from Acute Gastroenteritis Cases and Asymptomatic Subjects: Association with Age and Higher Shedding in Stool - PubMed
From David W. Tharp, Executive Director, International Association for Food Protection: I'm not sure when this "tradition" began, but I'm fairly certain that there was an ice sculpture at my first meeting in 1993. From memory, Charlie Felix was the liaison to the Packaged Ice Association (now International Packaged Ice Association). Charlie worked from 1966 to 1985 for the Foodservice and Packaging Institute (per his LinkedIn profile). He became a publisher and consultant after 1985 and was active in IAFP through 2012.
244. Food Out of Temperature Control for 6 Hours
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating food held out of temperature control for 6 hours.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
243. Unrefrigerated Baileys Irish Cream After 6 Months
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming Baileys Irish Cream that has been unrefrigerated for 6 months.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
242. Brushing Teeth With Well Water
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of brushing teeth with well water in a town in Ontario.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
241. Unrefrigerated Pesto
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of holding pesto unrefrigerated for an extended period of time.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Merch — Risky or Not?
- Boxing Day - Wikipedia
- Current Food Safety Issues of Home-prepared Vegetables and Herbs Stored in Oil
- Garlic-in-oil associated botulism: episode leads to product modification. | AJPH | Vol. 80 Issue 11
- Outgrowth and Toxin Production by Clostridium botulinum in Bottled Chopped Garlic | Journal of Food Protection
240. "Lightly" Pasteurized OJ Left at Room Temp for 24 Hours
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of "lightly" pasteurized orange juice left at room temperature for 24 hours
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Merch — Risky or Not?
- Our Story | Simply® Beverages
- CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 - definition of pasteurization
- Botulism Associated with Commercial Carrot Juice --- Georgia and Florida, September 2006
- International Outbreak of Severe Botulism with Prolonged Toxemia Caused by Commercial Carrot Juice | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic
- Amazon.com: Customer Questions & Answers
- Ultra-high-temperature processing - Wikipedia
239. Turkey Meatballs From Jimmy Kimmels Steps
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating turkey meatballs dropped on Jimmy Kimmels steps
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Merch — Risky or Not?
- Happy birthday to @jimmykimmellive. Not only can this guy host the Oscars but he’s a great dad, an incredible pizza chef, and he even has to-go boxes at his house! So much love for this generous and hilarious person. ❤️ #jimmykimmel #meatballs #italian #birthday #comedy #talkshowhost #dinner #partyfoul #storytime #story #funnystory #fyp #fy #fypage
- Sorry, But The 5-Second Rule Was Debunked by Science Yet Again
- A systematic look at the five-second rule: Miranda and Schaffner edition | barfblog
- https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.01838-16
238. Raw Egg Eggnog Refrigerated for 6 Months
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking raw egg eggnog refrigerated for 6 months.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Merch — Risky or Not?
- Plan Ahead: 30-Day Eggnog - Ruhlman
- Survival of pathogenic microorganisms in an egg-nog-like product containing 7% ethanol - ScienceDirect
- If Eggnog Has Eggs in it, Why Is it Safe to Drink? | NC State News
- Would you like some eggs with your cocktail? | barfblog
- Tainted Eggnog Fatal to 4 Residents of a County Nursing Home in Jersey - The New York Times
- The Safe Way to Enjoy Eggnog This Winter | Homegrown | NC State University