417. Pickle From 1890
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating a pickle from 1890
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
DALL·E, Leftover Home Cooked Vegetable Soup Stored in a Refrigerator During a Power Outage in the style of Edward Hopper
416. Leftover Home Cooked Vegetable Soup Stored in a Refrigerator During a Power Outage
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating leftover home cooked vegetable soup stored in a refrigerator during a power outage for a specific amount of time under certain conditions.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- ComBase
- Thermapen ONE | ThermoWorks
- Waterproof Pocket Digital Thermometer PDT300 from Comark
- Digital thermometers: Easy readout of measuring values | Testo, Inc
- Emergency Action Plan for Retail Food Establishment | Conference-Developed Guides and Documents | Conference for Food Protection
- Effect of thermal ballast loading on temperature stability of domestic refrigerators used for vaccine storage | PLOS ONE
DALL·E 2, Live crabs on an airplane in the style of Jack Kirby
415. Flying With Crabs
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating crabs after transporting live crabs via checked luggage.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Reese Waters on Twitter: "WHO FLEW WITH CRABS?! https://t.co/c0cux6Jyyi" / Twitter
- Time‐Temperature Effects on the Bacteriological Quality of Stored Shellfish. - HOFF - 1967 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library
- Rare Death Via Histamine Poisoning Following Crab Consumption: A Case Report - PubMed
- Cancer pagurus (Linnaeus, 1758) physiological responses to simulated live transport: Influence of temperature, air exposure and AQUI-S® - ScienceDirect
414. Slimy Meat With Holes
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating meat with holes that are slimy.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Alex on Twitter: "@f*ckedupfoods @bugcounter and @benjaminchapman this is uh... Bad right" / Twitter
- f*cked up looking food on Twitter: "https://t.co/mI1yRQrNWu" / Twitter
- Microbiological Spoilage and Contamination of Vacuum-Packaged Cooked Sausages | Journal of Food Protection
- Sodium Nitrite and Sorbic Acid Effects on Clostridium botulinum Toxin Formation in Chicken Frankfurter‐Type Emulsions - Sofos - 1979 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library
- CSIRO Meat Technology Update
413. Worker Not Wearing a Hair Covering in a Restaurant
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from a worker not wearing a hair covering in a restaurant.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- food safety hair covering - Google Scholar
- Carriage of potentially pathogenic bacteria in the hair - Black - 1974 - BJS (British Journal of Surgery) - Wiley Online Library
- Scientific Evidence Supports the Use of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers as an Effective Alternative to Hand Washing in Retail Food and Food Service Settings When Heavy Soiling Is Not Present on Hands | Journal of Food Protection
- FDA Food Code | FDA
- Is Hair In Food A Health Risk? | Popular Science
- Food Defect Levels Handbook | FDA
- Human Hair in Food: Could it lead to contamination? - Food Safety Helpline
412. Defrosting Trays
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of Defrosting Trays
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Dr. Kara Morgan on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman - this is a new one for me. Have you done an episode on these yet? “Defrosting trays” https://t.co/ksuAZC832l" / Twitter
- Premium Innovative Defrosting Tray @ SharperImage.com
- Amazon.com: CHEFLY Large Fast Defrosting Tray for Frozen Meat Foods 13.8〃 by 7.8〃 No Electricity Aluminum Miracle Natural Thawing Plate : Home & Kitchen
- Anybody remember laughter? - Portland Press Herald
- Mallrats - Wikipedia
- thawing - Risky or Not?
- The Effect of Different Thawing Methods on the Growth of Bacteria in Chicken
- Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "Room temperature thawing of frozen meat is an interesting topic that comes up from time to time. If you check all of the food safety advice websites they will tell you that it is not safe to do this. (1/18)" / Twitter
Dirty Coffee Carafe and Filter Basket in the style of Vermeer
411. Brewing More Coffee Without Cleaning the Carafe and Filter Basket
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of brewing more coffee without cleaning the carafe and filter basket.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
Loosey-Goosey Cured Bacon in the style of Salvador Dali
410. Chris's "Loosey-Goosey" Cured Bacon
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making bacon using Chris’s “loosey-goosey” method for adding nitrite.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
Wet hands in the style of Norman Rockwell
409. Not Fully Drying Your Hands
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of not fully drying your hands after washing them.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
408. Found Fries
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating french fries found in a car long after they were fresh.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Growth of Bacillus cereus on Oil‐blanched Potato Strips for “Home‐style” French Fries - Doan - 1999 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library
- McDonald's burger and fries show no sign of rot after 6 years
- Limpness of Fried Potato Slabs During Post‐Frying Period - Miranda - 2005 - Journal of Food Process Engineering - Wiley Online Library
- Growth and Production of Enterotoxin A by Staphylococcus aureus on “Home‐style” French Fries - Doan - 1999 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library
- Clazzio install - S2KI Honda S2000 Forums
407. San Francisco Mystery Poop
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of picking up mystery poop (that might be dog poop, but might not) in San Francisco.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
406. Boiling Moldy Maple Syrup to Make It Safe
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of moldy maple syrup that has been boiled to make it safe.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Fungi Associated with Pure Maple Syrup Packed at the Minimum Recommended Reheating Temperature1 | Journal of Food Protection
- Thermal Inactivation of Bacterial Pathogens and Fungal Spores Under Post-Process Contamination Scenarios in Maple Syrup Processing - ProQuest
- Effect of temperature and water activity on growth and aflatoxin production by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus on cured meat model systems - ScienceDirect
- Microorganisms in Foods 5: Characteristics of Microbial Pathogens | SpringerLink
- The fungus in my maple syrup :Cornell Mushroom Blog
- Effect of Processing on Aflatoxin | SpringerLink
- Microbial Contamination in Maple Syrup
- Pure Maple Syrup Wagner's Sugar Hill Wisconsin
- Real Maple Syrup | New Hampshire Maple Syrup | Best Pancake Syrup - Ben's Sugar Shack
- The Sugarhill Gang - Wikipedia
405. Dark Chocolate
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of Cadmium and Lead in chocolate.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- neil chazin on Twitter: "https://t.co/lgEJD35HHh @bugcounter @benjaminchapman is dark chocolate risky now?" / Twitter
- Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate - Consumer Reports
- Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "Neal https://t.co/iVmAOlJr4v asks an excellent question, and there is a lot to unpack here. (1/10)" / Twitter
- As You Sow is Promoting Corporate Accountability Through Shareholder Action
- Cadmium in food - Scientific opinion of the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain | EFSA
404. Maggot Cheese (Casu Marzu)
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating raw milk maggot cheese.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- "Casu Marzu" The world's most dangerous cheese Unpasteurized sheep milk + live maggots. Would you dare to eat it?
- Casu martzu - Wikipedia
- The secret resistance behind the world’s most dangerous cheese | The Outline
- Master thesis, Food Safety Law, Unsafe Casu Marzu
- MDMA (Ecstasy/Molly) DrugFacts | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Sardinian dietary analysis for longevity: a review of the literature | SpringerLink
- Production Under Controlled Conditions of “Casu Marzu” Cheese: Effect of the Piophila casei Colonization on Microbial and Chemical Composition of the Cheeses | Italian Journal of Food Safety
- Intestinal Infestation With Maggots of the "Cheese Fly" (Piophila casei) | JAMA | JAMA Network
- Urino-genital myiasis due to Piophila casei. - Abstract - Europe PMC
403. Taking an Infant and Toddler to a Goat Feeding Farm
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of taking an infant and a toddler to a goat feeding farm.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
DALL·E generated bowl of spinach in the style of Peter Max. I think this one turned out pretty good.
402. Hallucinogenic Australian Leafy Greens
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating Australian spinach just to get high.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Australia recalls spinach after toxic contamination causes hallucinations - The Washington Post
- From hallucinogenic spinach to contaminated salad: here's why there's alarm over these veggies | SBS News
- A Florida Family All Got High On Walmart LSD Steak | Cracked.com
- ‘Likely a nightshade’: Australians urged not to seek out spinach products for recreational high | Health | The Guardian
- Riviera Farms Spinach Recall: 'At least' 42 people seek medical help after consuming toxic spinach in NSW
401. Unrefrigerated Jalapeño Queso Dip
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing Jalapeño Queso Dip for 12 hours at room temperature.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Landon Conover on Twitter: "After the party, it came home and sat on the counter overnight, 12+ hours. The next morning she is saving it by putting it in the fridge. Reasoning the velveeta cheese is shelf stable. Pretty sure I know the answer to this, but #riskyornot?" / Twitter
- 3-Ingredient Spicy Jalapeño Queso Dip - The Seasoned Mom
- US5935634A - Low-water activity cheese and method of preparation - Google Patents
- Foodborne Botulism Outbreak Associated With Commercial Nacho Cheese Sauce From a Gas Station Market - PubMed
400. Simple Syrup Stored at Room Temperature
DALL·E generated glass bottle of simple syrup with mold in it. This is not the bottle discussed on the podcast. This is an imaginary bottle made up by an Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing simple syrup at room temperature.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Quatercentenary Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
- Simple Syrup Kit | A Kit for Making Simple Syrup. By Studio Neat.
- cocktails - How to make syrups shelf stable? - Seasoned Advice
- How to Store Simple Syrup in 3 Easy Steps - 2022 - MasterClass
- Supersaturated Solution Definition and Examples
- Health Safety of Soft Drinks: Contents, Containers, and Microorganisms - PMC
399. Eating Decorative Kale
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating decorative kale from a Pizza Hut in the 2000's.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Pizza Hut Used to Be One of the Largest Kale Purchasers in the US
- Iman Jalali on Twitter: "Up until 2013, Pizza Hut was the largest buyer of kale in the US They used it to decorate their salad bar https://t.co/1rTLitCHRv" / Twitter
- Growth model of Escherichia coli O157:H7 at various storage temperatures on kale treated by thermosonication combined with slightly acidic electrolyzed water - PubMed
- Tracing Temperature Patterns of Cut Leafy Greens during Service in North Carolina School Food Service | Journal of Food Protection
- William Coney on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman Risky or Not - eating Kale from a 2000s / 2010s Pizza Hut salad buffet where it is being used in a decorative capacity" / Twitter
- It's Corn - Remix & Original Video (Corn Kid) - YouTube
- Kale | Food Source Information
398. Using Stretch-Tite to Cover a Pot of Boiling Water
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using Stretch-Tite plastic to cover a pot of boiling water for 40 minutes.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️