673. Ramen
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from ramen based on a TikTok warning.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
DALL·E - A person furiously chopping a carrot on a plastic cutting board. The person is in an intense stance with exaggerated chopping motions, and pieces of the cutting board are flying.
672. Plastic Cutting Boards Because of Microplastics
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from microplastics from cutting boards.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Cutting Boards: An Overlooked Source of Microplastics in Human Food? | Environmental Science & Technology
- Microplastic Contamination of Chicken Meat and Fish through Plastic Cutting Boards - PubMed
- Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Foods | FDA
- Human Consumption of Microplastics | Environmental Science & Technology
- Environmental exposure to microplastics: An overview on possible human health effects - ScienceDirect
DALL·E - An elderly man with wrinkles and white hair, dressed in full kayaking gear including a life jacket, helmet, and paddling gloves, jumping enthusiastically under a ceiling fan.
671. Older Man Kayaking With Fresh Wounds in Water Which Regularly Fails Coliform Tests
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of kayaking with fresh wounds in water which regularly fails coliform tests while elderly.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
DALL·E - A close-up view of an open grill with a piece of salmon resting on a wooden plank. The wooden plank is visibly aged and covered in patches of green mold
670. Cooking Salmon on Moldy Cedar Planks
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating salmon cooked on moldy cedar planks.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Sprouts 3.5 X 7 Cedar Plank | Shop Online, Shopping List, Digital Coupons | Sprouts Farmers Market
- The fate of mycotoxins during thermal food processing - Kabak - 2009 - Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture - Wiley Online Library
- Stability of mycotoxins during food processing - ScienceDirect
- Microbial Safety of Wood in Contact with Food: A Review - Aviat - 2016 - Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety - Wiley Online Library
DALL·E - An automatic dishwasher with the door open, filled to capacity with plates, cups, and silverware. All the dishes and silverware are densely packed and moldy.
669. Items Washed Twice in a Festered Moldy Dishwasher
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating off plates covered in mold after they were washed twice in an automatic dishwasher on the sanitize cycle.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
DALL·E - A detailed image of an open microwave oven with food splatters all over the interior. The food splatter is visibly unclean, with bits of food and sauce.
668. Using a Microwave Because They Are Contaminated With Bacteria
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cooking foods in microwaves because of cross-contamination from the cavity.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
DALL·E - A close-up view of a slow cooker filled with beans, where the beans are arranged in two different colors to form a skull and crossbones pattern.
667. Cooking Dry Beans in Slow Cookers
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from cooking dry beans in slow cookers.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Chow Line: Dry kidney beans need to be boiled | CFAES
- Cooking (and Canning) Kidney Beans
- Canning Dry Beans: It Matters How They Go in the Jar - National Center for Home Food Preservation
- FDA Bad Bug Book
- Toxicity of Kidney Beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris) With Particular Reference to Lectins: Journal of Plant Foods: Vol 4, No 1
- Differentiating the Lectin Activity in Twenty‐Four Cultivars of Dry Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) - KOEHLER - 1986 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library
DALL·E - A dark, demonic figure with a menacing presence, featuring sharp, twisted horns and glowing red eyes. The figure is extending a glowing glass filled with a liquid.
666. Drinking Alcohol from Uranium Glassware
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking alcohol from uranium glassware.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Helpless Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
- Conversion: Port Hope | Cameco
- Port Hope, Ontario - Wikipedia
- Port Hope Area Initiative - Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
- Marie Curie - Wikipedia
- The Black Hole of the Canadian Nuclear Industry
- Max & Anita Pochon, 1920 | Title: Max & Anita Pochon Accessi… | Flickr
- Uranium glass - Wikipedia
- Uranium Glass Bottle - Etsy
- What to know about collecting uranium glass - The Washington Post
- Vaseline and Uranium Glass (ca. 1930s) | Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity
- Leaching of uranium from glass and ceramic foodware and decorative items - PubMed
- Dan McClellan (@maklelan) | TikTok
- #maklelan666 | TikTok
- (#maklelan1854 #markofthebeast | TikTok
- SLAYER To Release 6/6/06 T-Shirt, Limited To 666 Units, Priced At $16.66 - BLABBERMOUTH.NET
DALL·E - A realistic image of a cut avocado wrapped in plastic wrap, sitting on a kitchen counter. The kitchen counter is dimly lit, indicating it's the middle of the night.
665. Leaving a Cut Unripe Avocado at Room Temperature for a Day
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from leaving a cut unripe avocado at room temperature for a day.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street | Recipes, TV and Cooking Tips
- America's Test Kitchen: Recipes & Reviews You Can Trust | Stream Every Episode | America’s Test Kitchen
- Richard Kimble | The Fugitive Wiki | Fandom
- Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, and Indicator Microorganisms on Hass Avocados Sold at Retail Markets in Guadalajara, Mexico - ScienceDirect
- Behaviors of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and Listeria monocytogenes on whole avocado during storage at 21 or 7°C and their reduction by aqueous chlorine dioxide and peroxyacetic acid - ScienceDirect
- Effect of storage temperature and time on the behavior of Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, and background microbiota on whole fresh avocados (Persea americana var Hass) - ScienceDirect
- Survival of Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat “Guacamole”: Role of Added Antimicrobials - PMC
- Quality variables of “Hass” avocado stored in modified atmosphere packaging
DALL·E - A dimly lit restaurant at night, with all the chairs placed upside down on the tables. The restaurant has a slightly dirty and unkempt appearance.
664. Putting Chairs on a Sanitized Restaurant Table
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed to diners when chairs are placed on sanitized tables.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Consumer Perceptions, Pathogen Detection, and Removal Rate Determination in Market-style Restaurants
- A Survey of Microbial Contamination on Restaurant Nonfood‐Contact Surfaces - Patel - 2017 - Journal of Food Safety - Wiley Online Library
- Are Ball Pits the Playground for Potentially Harmful Bacteria? - Document - Gale Academic OneFile
DALL·E - A person sitting at a table eating a rare hamburger. The person looks slightly nauseous, possibly due to the undercooked meat. They are holding a beer.
663. Eating Foods With Pathogens as Long as You Are Drinking Alcohol
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating pathogen laden food while drinking alcohol.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- ཨ་རིའི་གླུ་མ་ Amalia སེང་འབྲུག་མཚོ། | #foodsafety #health #sterilization #sanitization #lifehack | Instagram
- Epidemiology
- The protective effect of alcohol on the occurrence of epidemic oyster-borne hepatitis A - PubMed
- Bellido-Blasco: The protective effect of alcoholic... - Google Scholar
- Wine is Bactericidal to Foodborne Pathogens - Møretrø - 2004 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library
- The antimicrobial effect of wine on Listeria innocua in a model stomach system - ScienceDirect
- When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses - ScienceDirect
- The Claim: Drinking Alcohol With a Meal Prevents Food Poisoning - The New York Times
- ALCOHOLIC DRINK CUTS HEALTH RISK IN OYSTERS – Orlando Sentinel
- Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia
DALL·E - A detailed scene of a person sitting at a bar, holding a drink with a surprised expression on their face. The drink in front of them has a human toe.
662. Enjoying a Sourtoe Cocktail
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking a cocktail made with a mummified toe.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
DALL·E - A detailed image of a spatchcocked chicken resting in a refrigerator. The chicken is spread out flat, with the skin facing up, and placed on a rack next to a fan.
661. Blowing Air Over Raw Chicken
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of blowing air over raw chicken.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Alton Brown | Dry that chicken! #chicken #refrigeratorlife #goodeats | Instagram
- Brian Brozovic on X: "#riskyornot, taking into account FSIS Appendix A will be followed for cooking, so specifically airborne risk from household fan being applied to direct surface of raw poultry for rapid thawing @benjaminchapman @bugcounter https://t.co/VYPEPFokjd" / X
- Airborne Bacteria and Carcass Contamination in Slaughterhouses - ScienceDirect
- Distribution and Prevalence of Airborne Microorganisms in Three Commercial Poultry Processing Plants - ScienceDirect
- Microbial Composition in Bioaerosols of a High-Throughput Chicken-Slaughtering Facility - ScienceDirect
- Mechanically Ventilated Broiler Sheds: a Possible Source of Aerosolized Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Escherichia coli | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Temperature control: food safety tips | North Devon Council
DALL·E - A detailed image of a person in an office, sneaking behind a coffee maker, with only a small part of them visible, such as an eye peeking out...
660. Coffee Made With Water From a Strangers Water Bottle
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from drinking coffee made with water from a strangers water bottle.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- The Cleanliness of Reusable Water Bottles: How Contamination Levels are Affected by Bottle Usage and Cleaning Behaviors of Bottle Owners
- Bacterial water quality in the personal water bottles of elementary students - PubMed
- saliva - Risky or Not?
- Detection of Norovirus in Saliva Samples from Acute Gastroenteritis Cases and Asymptomatic Subjects: Association with Age and Higher Shedding in Stool - PMC
- Merch — Risky or Not?
DALL·E - A cup of coffee placed on an airline tray table, with a mysterious and eerie atmosphere. The coffee is steaming, but the steam forms into strange shapes.
659. Drinking Coffee or Tea on an Airplane
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from drinking coffee or tea brewed on an airplane.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Why You Shouldn't Order Coffee or Tea on an Airplane
- 2019 Airline Water Study by CUNY's Hunter Col | EurekAlert!
- IJERPH | Free Full-Text | Bacteria that Travel: The Quality of Aircraft Water
- IJERPH | Free Full-Text | Microbial Contamination in the Coffee Industry: An Occupational Menace besides a Food Safety Concern?
- Factors That Impact Survival of Salmonella during Storage of Beans and Batch Production of Cold Brew Coffee
DALL·E - An Olympic athlete sitting at a table in the Olympic village, holding a piece of fish with a surprised expression as they notice a small worm in the fish.
658. Eating Fish in the Olympic Village
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating fish in the Olympic Village.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Food Vision - Paris 2024
- Illness-Causing Fish Parasites (Worms)
- Effect of Lime Juice on Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Salmonella enterica Inactivation during the Preparation of the Raw Fish Dish Ceviche - ScienceDirect
- Response to the questions posed by the Food and Drug Administration and the National Marine Fisheries Service regarding determination of cooking parameters for safe seafood for consumers - PubMed
- About Anisakiasis | Anisakiasis | CDC
DALL·E - An Olympic swimmer swimming on their back in the river Seine in Paris, surrounded by iconic Parisian landmarks like the Eiffel Tower in the background.
657. Swimming in the Seine during the 2024 Olympics
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from swimming in the Seine during the 2024 Olympics.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Merch — Risky or Not?
- Olympic Marathon Swimming | Paris 2024 Olympics
- Three German swimmers fall ill after Olympic races in the Seine | AP News
- Triathlon - Wikipedia
- Why Olympic athletes may be getting sick from swimming in the Seine - The Washington Post
- Don Schaffner 🦠 on X: ""And it’s actually backed by science. Proven methods." Um. No. https://t.co/oMgSsRizTJ" / X
- How one U.S. Olympian is prepping for Seine’s E. coli problem: Not washing his hands - The Athletic
- The Paris Museum of Sewers
- Olympic poop protest postponed after politicians cancel swim in feces-filled Seine
DALL·E - A large container filled with liquid labeled 'Cleaning Vinegar.' Inside the container, there are various fruits and vegetables submerged in the liquid.
656. Eating Fruit and Vegetables Washed With Cleaning Vinegar
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating fruit and vegetables washed with cleaning vinegar.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
DALL·E - An airplane meal on an airplane tray. The meal consists of rice, green beans, and chicken tikka masala. There are several spots of black mold on the food.
655. Eating Moldy Food on a Delta Flight
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating moldy food on a flight.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Helpless Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
- Delta Flight Diverts Plane After Serving Contaminated Food | Inside Edition
- Flight diverted to JFK after passengers served spoiled food: Delta
- Photos of Delta Airlines’ ‘Spoiled’ Meals Show Mold Growing on Food
- An overview of mycotoxin contamination in foods and its implications for human health: Toxin Reviews: Vol 29, No 1
- Merch — Risky or Not?
DALL·E - A half of a cut watermelon sitting on a kitchen counter in the middle of the night. The kitchen is dimly lit, with a soft glow from a nearby light.
654. Cut Watermelon at Room Temperature for One Day or More
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating cut watermelon at room temperature for a day or more.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Modeling the growth of Listeria monocytogenes on cut cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon - ScienceDirect
- Survival and Growth of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Cantaloupe and Watermelon - ScienceDirect
- Growth of Salmonella spp. in Cantaloupe, Watermelon, and Honeydew Melons - ScienceDirect
- Merch — Risky or Not?
- Caricature Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster