711. Leaving Cookies and Milk Out for Santa

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of leaving cookies and milk out for Santa, and carrots for his reindeer.

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

• How To Celebrate The Winter Solstice
• How does Santa make it around the world in one night? | HowStuffWorks
• Is Santa Claus immune to COVID-19? - YouTube
• Immunologists convinced Santa has a great immune system - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

577. Baking Cookies on Wax Paper

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from baking cookies on wax paper.

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

• Loonies and Toonies Canadian Dollar Coins
• pre taped call in show - YouTube
• Ash Wednesday - Wikipedia
• Can You Bake With Wax Paper? | MyRecipes
• used wax paper instead of parchment, is my food still safe to eat? : r/Cooking
• Wax Paper | Reynolds Brands
• Reynolds Group Holdings - Wikipedia
• Parchmentising - Wikipedia
• Twaddell scale - Wikipedia
• What is wax paper?

522. Paw Print Sugar Cookies Made With an Actual Dog Paw

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating paw print sugar cookies made with an actual dog paw.

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

• Cut Out Cookies Recipe - Paw Prints For A Fundraiser
• Thumbprint Cookies - Sugar Spun Run
• I can't wait for the office potluck! People always ask me how I make the paw print sugar cookies so perfect! - iFunny

476. Worlds Purest Cookie

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating the "worlds purest cookie".

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

• Making the World's Purest Cookie - YouTube
• Baking chocolate NIST® SRM® 2384 | Sigma-Aldrich
• Baking chocolate SDS

282. Sage's Steak Cookies

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making cookies with steak chips.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Sage (@SageOlson) / Twitter
• Glazed Burnt End Chocolate Chip Cookies | Beef Loving Texans
• Fate of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, and Salmonella typhimurium during Preparation and Storage of Beef Jerky | Journal of Food Protection
• Brisket Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe - Barbecuebible.com
• Home - Texas Cottage Food Law
• From Jam to Jerky: Water Activity and the Science of Preservation

182. Dashboard Cookies

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of making making cookies on the dashboard of a car.

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

• Andrew H on Twitter
• An Assessment of Time/Temperature Combinations for Salmonella Lethality Achieved when Baking Cookies in Vehicles (IAFP 2016 Annual Meeting)
• Starch Gelatinization in the Presence of Emulsifiers. A Morphological Study of Wheat Starch
• Thermal Inactivation of Salmonella on Sesame-topped Bread during Baking Using High and Low Oven Humidity
• A Thermal Process Lethality Model for Low Water Activity Food
• Validation of Baking to Reduce Coliform Counts and Salmonella in Cookie Dough
• Low water activity refrigerated cookie dough - Google Patents