742. Stirring Your Coffee With "Pickle" the Barrista Bird Daily

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of letting a parrot stir you coffee with a spoon every day.

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

• Pickle the barista birb loves to stir my coffee every morning : r/aww
• Salmonella | Cornell Wildlife Health Lab
• Psittacosis (Ornithosis) fact sheet
• Human Salmonellosis Outbreak Linked to Salmonella Typhimurium Epidemic in Wild Songbirds, United States, 2020–2021 - Volume 29, Number 11—November 2023 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
• Salmonella pet birds - Google Scholar
• Full article: Zoonotic potential and prevalence of Salmonella serovars isolated from pets
• Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of Salmonella spp. in Fecal Samples of Pet Birds | Avian Diseases
• Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Salmonella spp. in Pet Mammals, Reptiles, Fish Aquarium Water, and Birds in Trinidad - Seepersadsingh - 2003 - Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B - Wiley Online Library
• Salmonella Newport outbreak in Brazilian parrots: confiscated birds from the illegal pet trade as possible zoonotic sources - Saidenberg - 2021 - Environmental Microbiology Reports - Wiley Online Library
• Zoonoses in pet birds: review and perspectives | Veterinary Research

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?

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

646. Taking Your Coffee Cup Into the Bathroom With You

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from taking your coffee cup into the bathroom with you while pooping.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• 645. Eating at the Toe Beans Cat Cafe — Risky or Not?
• Barenaked Ladies – Never Is Enough Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
• 395. Open Dippin' Dots in a Sporting Event Bathroom Stall — Risky or Not?
• Here's What Really Happens When You Flush a Toilet | Smithsonian
• R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts (Official HD Music Video) - YouTube

572. Awning Drip Coffee

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking a cup of coffee into which a drop of water from an awning has fallen.

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

• A global review of the microbiological quality and potential health risks associated with roof-harvested rainwater tanks | npj Clean Water
• 562. Using Graywater or Rainwater in a Bidet — Risky or Not?
• Microbiological Quality of Roof‐Harvested Rainwater and Health Risks: A Review - Ahmed - 2011 - Journal of Environmental Quality - Wiley Online Library
• Big Yellow Taxi - Wikipedia
• Raised on Robbery - Wikipedia
• Trans Canada Highwaymen - Trans Canada Highwaymen
• New Album: Some Guys - Jonathan Coulton

470. Recalled Cold Brew Coffee With a Bolt

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking cold brew coffee that was recalled because of a missing bolt.

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

• Blame Canada - South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (3/9) Movie CLIP (1999) HD - YouTube
• 2.7 Million Cans of Coffee Sold at Costco Recalled — Best Life
• ‎Costco Recall notice

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 👍🏼

• Risky or Not? episodes with Coffee tag

370. Chuck's Cold Brew

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making cold brew in the style of Dr. Chuck Haas.

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

• Charles Haas | Drexel Engineering
• 38: Black Coffee at Room Temperature — Risky or Not?
• Factors That Impact Survival of Salmonella during Storage of Beans and Batch Production of Cold Brew Coffee

323. Stirring Your Coffee With a Hotel Pen

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of stirring your coffee with a hotel pen.

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

• AeroPress Coffee Maker Official Store
• Urban Dictionary:Mann's Assumption
• Association of Food and Drug Officials – Many perspectives, one voice, since 1896.
• Home | Dutch Bros
• House Paint | Interior & Exterior Paint Colors | Dutch Boy

310. Really Old Green Coffee Beans

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking coffee made from really old coffee beans.

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

• Steve Lister on Twitter: "1930's green coffee beans roasted today? Is @jimseven going to end up in the hospital? @bugcounter @benjaminchapman #riskyornot https://t.co/DOAn7SqQLm" / Twitter
• Drinking Harrods Coffee From the 1930s - YouTube
• Joseph Lister - Wikipedia
• 130. Drinking Civit Poop Coffee — Risky or Not?
• Mycotoxins in Coffee | Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL | Oxford Academic
• Sci-Hub | Mycotoxins in Coffee

208. Not Washing Coffee Making Devices

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from not washing coffee making devices.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• IAFP Foundation - International Association for Food Protection
• AeroPress - Official Store, Replacement Parts And Recipes
• Coffee and spent coffee extracts protect against cell mutagens and inhibit growth of food-borne pathogen microorganisms - ScienceDirect

130. Drinking Civit Poop Coffee

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking coffee made from beans pooped our by a civit.

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

• Gluconobacter dominates the gut microbiome of the Asian palm civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus that produces kopi luwak [PeerJ]
• Is Kopi Luwak safe to drink? - Coffee Stack Exchange
• Campus News: Kopi luwak coffee safe, U of G study finds
• What is Kopi Luwak? (and Why You Shouldn't Drink it) - Coffee Affection
• What is kopi luwak? A literature review on production, quality and problems
• Beall's List – of Potential Predatory Journals and Publishers

60. Reusing Disposable Coffee Cups

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing disposable coffee cups.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• 38: Black Coffee at Room Temperature — Risky or Not?
• Why can't I put your paper cups or soup cups in the microwave?

38: Black Coffee at Room Temperature

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of holding black coffee at room temperature all day.

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

• Antibacterial activity of tea (Camellia sinensis) and coffee (Coffee arabica) with special reference to Salmonella typhimurium. - Abstract - Europe PMC
• Antibacterial Activity of Coffee Extracts and Selected Coffee Chemical Compounds against Enterobacteria | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
• Food Safety Considerations for Coffee and Tea Brewers | Food Safety & Quality Blog
• Death Wish coffee recall: Nitro Cold Brew can kill you