457. Cooking With Molten Glass or Metal

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from cooking food using molten glass or metal.

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

• Mr Forge (@mrforge_) | TikTok
• Is It Safe To Heat Canned Food In The Can?
• 254. Do It Yourself Pizza Oven — Risky or Not?
• 155. Lava Pizza — Risky or Not?
• (5) Mike Batz on Twitter: "My first thought was that lava smoke must have some nasty crap in it, but I'm gonna need the experts to chime in... Hey @benjaminchapman @bugcounter is cooking on lava #riskyornot" / Twitter
• Blacksmithing At Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
• Cooking Over Molten Glass • Coastal Lifestyle Magazine

456. Pepper Shakers at a Restaurant

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using a pepper shaker at a restaurant.

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

• 449. Pepper Mill Over a Pot — Risky or Not?
• Why You Shouldn't Use the Pepper Shakers at a Restaurant | The Healthy
• Dirty Restaurant Secrets the Kitchen Crew Won't Tell You
• Restaurant Safety Boosted With New Sani Shaker No-Contact Salt & Pepper Shakers
• Here's the Dirtiest Thing on Restaurant Tables | Reader's Digest

455. Super Sweaty Celebrity Chefs

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating food made by a super sweaty celebrity chef.

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

• The Microbiology of the Human Axilla and Its Relationship to Axillary Odor - ScienceDirect
• Sweat and Sebum Preferences of the Human Skin Microbiota | Microbiology Spectrum
• Outbreaks Where Food Workers Have Been Implicated in the Spread of Foodborne Disease. Part 5. Sources of Contamination and Pathogen Excretion from Infected Persons - ScienceDirect

454. Mammoth Meatballs

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating meatballs made using mammoth (and elephant) DNA.

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

• Company Serves World's First 'Mammoth' Meatball, But Nobody Is Allowed to Eat It : ScienceAlert
• Why Are Some Proteins Allergens? | Toxicological Sciences | Oxford Academic
• Current Understanding of Food Allergens - LEHRER - 2002 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley Online Library
• FDA says tara flour was likely behind illnesses tied to Daily Harvest crumbles | Food Safety News
• Ethnozoology of bushmeat
• Botswana has 'significant elephant-poaching problem,' conservation group says

453. Wild Yeast Water

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of baking using wild yeast.

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

• Baking bread with a yeast water starter | King Arthur Baking
• 2 easy ways to make yeast water with fruits - The Flavor Bells
• Creating Fruit Yeast Water Starter - Make It Dough
• Pruno: A Recipe for Botulism | Botulism | CDC
• What Are Wild Ales? The Beer Style Explained | Chatelaine

452. Reusing Bamboo Chopsticks for Raw Sushi

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of Reusing Bamboo Chopsticks hand washed with soap and water for raw sushi.

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

• Chopsticks!! (Piano Song) - YouTube
• Urban Dictionary: open the kimono
• Welcome | 12th International Conference on Predictive Modelling in Food
• Amazon.com: Bamber 10 Pairs Reusable Bamboo Chopsticks Set, 10 Inches Long Chopstick, Japanese Style : Home & Kitchen
• Microbial Safety of Wood in Contact with Food: A Review - Aviat - 2016 - Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety - Wiley Online Library
• Efficacy of electrolysed oxidizing water in inactivating Vibrio parahaemolyticus on kitchen cutting boards and food contact surfaces | Letters in Applied Microbiology | Oxford Academic
• The 6 Best Chopstick Sets of 2023 | Reviews by Wirecutter

451. Bobbing for Apples

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of bobbing for apples.

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

• 316. Using Cups to Scoop Water Out of a Shared Bowl — Risky or Not?
• bobbing for apples - Google Scholar
• Bobbing For Apples Could Be Bad For Your Health | LittleThings.com
• Halloween Food Safety Tips for Parents | FDA
• Is Bobbing For Apples Safe? Dangers Lurk In This Fall Tradition
• Bobbing for apples, the silent danger this Halloween · TheJournal.ie

450. Salting Pasta Water With Iodized Salt

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of salting pasta water with iodized salt.

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

• Four ways to reduce unwanted iodized table salt reactions when boiling pasta - American Chemical Society
• Overlooked Iodo-Disinfection Byproduct Formation When Cooking Pasta with Iodized Table Salt | Environmental Science & Technology
• Overlooked Iodo-Disinfection Byproduct Formation When Cooking Pasta with Iodized Table Salt | Environmental Science & Technology PDF

449. Pepper Mill Over a Pot

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of repeatedly using a pepper mill over a pot of water.

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

• Peugeot pepper and salt mill Checkmate 30cm | mydealz
• Aspergillus growth and aflatoxin production on black pepper | SpringerLink
• Pepper Potts | Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki | Fandom

448. Pool Pizza

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating a slice of pizza dipped momentarily in a pool.

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

Mystery Guest 1 - not risky 👍🏼
Mystery Guest 2 - not risky 👍🏼

• pizza - Risky or Not?
• CDC Online Newsroom | Press Release | CDC study finds fecal contamination in pools

447. Repeated Hot Fudge Temperature Cycling

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of repeatedly reheating hot fudge in a microwave.

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

• Robbie Williams – Hot Fudge Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
• Hot Chocolate (band) - Wikipedia)
• Hot Fudge | Smucker's®
• Microbiological safety of chocolate confectionery products - New Food Magazine
• Hot Fudge - song and lyrics by Johnny & The Hurricanes | Spotify
• Vanilla Fudge
• Hot Hot Heat
• MC5 - Wikipedia
• The Dave Clark Five - Wikipedia

446. Ice Cream From a Malfunctioning Freezer

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating soft ice cream from a malfunctioning freezer.

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

• Welcome - Rutgers AAUP-AFT
• Quantitative Assessment of Relative Risk to Public Health from Foodborne Listeria monocytogenes Among Selected Categories of Ready-to-Eat Foods | FDA
• National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS) | CDC
• Listeria Outbreak Linked to Ice Cream | CDC
• Frontiers | Listeria monocytogenes Growth Kinetics in Milkshakes Made from Naturally and Artificially Contaminated Ice Cream
• Mark Knopfler - Boom, Like That Lyrics | AZLyrics.com
• Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's: Kroc, Ray: 8601300195858: Amazon.com: Books
• Kelis - Milkshake (Official HD Video) - YouTube

PS, the strike was suspended at 12:41 AM on April 15, 2023.

445. Old Meat Sticks

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from old meat sticks.

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

• Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "@CrucialTK #NotRisky!" / Twitter
• Emma Hartnett » Risk Sciences International
• What is Landjaeger? - Hempler's Foods
• Landjaeger Snack Sticks – Wisconsin Cheese Mart
• Meat Bars: A Survey To Assess Consumer Familiarity and Preparation Parameters and a Challenge Study To Quantify Viability of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Cells during Processing and Storage - PubMed
• Food Safety and Defense » Risk Sciences International
• Risk Assessment of Lethality Standards for RTE Meat and Poultry Products - Executive Summary
• Risk Assessment of Lethality Standards for RTE Meat and Poultry Products

444. Marrying the Ketchup

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from marrying the ketchup.

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

• Marrying the Ketchups - How To - Author Jennifer Close - YouTube
• Television review: '2 Broke Girls' - Los Angeles Times
• Gross Things Restaurants Do to Save Money | Reader's Digest
• Why You Shouldn't Use the Pepper Shakers at a Restaurant | The Healthy
• Ghostbusters: "Print is Dead" - YouTube
• Survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella spp. in Acidic Condiments - PubMed
• Flying Spaghetti Monster - Wikipedia

443. College Students Selling Foods to the Community

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from college students selling foods to the community.

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

• How It Works | Bites | Eat With Your Tribe
• AB626: Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations - Consumer Protection Division - County of Santa Clara
• Freewill Lyrics | Rush.com
• California Food Handlers Card | eFoodcard
• 90210 (TV series) - Wikipedia)
• About Me Chef Matt Collins

442. Restaurant Misting Fans

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about food safety and other risks from restaurant misting fans.

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

• Restaurant Misting Systems - Koolfog
• A Shopper’s Eye View of Food Safety at Retail Stores: Lessons from Photographs Taken while Grocery Shopping
• Produce Misting Literall Prevents Shrink | Produce Business Magazine
• Remembering Jim Prevor by Harris S. Cutler, Race-West Company - Produce Business
• N.C. Officials Trace 124 Legionnaires' Disease Cases To Hot Tub At A Fair : NPR
• Legionnaires’ disease outbreak associated with the North Carolina Mountain State Fair, 2019

441. Pooled Eggs in the Fridge for 10 Days

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing cracked pooled eggs in the fridge for 10 days.

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

• Pocket Full of Kryptonite - Wikipedia
• Romeo Toledo | LinkedIn
• Romeo T. Toledo's research works | University of Georgia, GA (UGA) and other places
• Toledo
• Isolation of Listeria Spp. From Faecal Samples of Cracked Egg Fed Chickens and Rapd Analysis of Listeria Monocytogenes Strains

440. Ketchup in the Cabinet

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing ketchup in the cabinet.

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

• Botulism Associated with Commercial Carrot Juice --- Georgia and Florida, September 2006
• Should you keep ketchup in the fridge or pantry?
• Acidity/pH of common food and beverages Chagrin Falls OH, Dentistry at Winbury
• Chagrin Falls-The Tragically Hip - YouTube
• Clemson pH of common foods
• Over two thousand estimations of the pH of representative foods - SpringerLink
• The Tragically Hip - Chagrin Falls Lyrics | SongMeanings

439. Gloves

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using non-sterile gloves in foodservice.

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

• Study finds half of new disposable gloves carry microbes from poo | Stuff.co.nz
• Researchgate Barry-Michaels/Metagenomic-Analysis-of-the-Microbiome-Associated-with-Single-Use-Glove-Manufacturing.pdf
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry-Michaels/publication/334684419_Viability-Linked_Metagenomic_Analysis_of_the_Disposable_Glove_Microbiome/links/5d3a10c892851cd04686b6a1/Viability-Linked-Metagenomic-Analysis-of-the-Disposable-Glove-Microbiome.pdf
• Validation of the Single-Use Glove Microbiome Shotgun WGS Metagenomic Analysis
• Comparative Pathogenomics of Escherichia coli: Polyvalent Vaccine Target Identification through Virulome Analysis | Infection and Immunity

438. Half Year Old Aged Steak in Cheese Wax

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating half year old steak aged in cheese wax.

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

• I Dry-Aged steaks in CHEESE WAX for 1/2 yr and ate it! - YouTube
• Microbiological safety of aged meat | EFSA
• Is Waxed Cheese Safe for Food Storage? | USU
• Coatings | Free Full-Text | Characterization of Beeswax, Candelilla Wax and Paraffin Wax for Coating Cheeses