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

708. Expired Pasteurized Cows Milk Used for Yogurt

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using expired pasteurized cows milk used for yogurt.

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

• 563. Chris's Yogurt Without Heating — Risky or Not?
• 128. Milk on the Counter Over Night — Risky or Not?
• Foods Near the End of Their Shelf Life - Consumption Recommendations | Consumer Food Waste Community of Practice | Connect
• Staphylococcus aureus Toxin Formation in Hydrated Batter Mixes

617. HPAI in Pasteurized Milk

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in pasteurized milk.

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

• EPI-WIN
• How CDC is monitoring influenza data to better understand the current avian influenza A (H5N1) situation in people | Avian Influenza (Flu)
• Emergence and interstate spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) in dairy cattle
• Bird Flu Highlights Concerns Around Raw Milk - The New York Times
• Early Release - Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Clade 2.3.4.4b Virus Infection in Domestic Dairy Cattle and Cats, United States, 2024 - Volume 30, Number 7—July 2024 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
• The surprising physics of cats’ drinking | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Experiment (100x slower) - YouTube
• Cutta Cutta (67x slower) - YouTube
• Virginia Tech, MIT, Princeton collaborate on cat study that shows intriguing gravity issues
• How Cats Lap: Water Uptake by Felis catus | Science

563. Chris's Yogurt Without Heating

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making yogurt at home without first heating the pasteurized milk.

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

• Yogurt - Wikipedia
• How To Make Yogurt at Home (Easy Step-by-Step Recipe) | The Kitchn
• WSU Extension | Yogurt Made Simple
• NC State Extension - Troubleshooting Yogurt
• National Center for Home Food Preservation | Yogurt

309. Adding Milk to Yogurt to Make More Yogurt

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making yogurt by adding milk to yogurt to make more yogurt.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
Dr. and Mrs. Danyluk - not risky 👍🏼

• Protested game - Wikipedia
• Landon Conover #Vaccinated on Twitter: "I don't know if this is really a thing, but for me, the more important canonical question is: Adding milk to yogurt to make more yogurt, #RiskyOrNot? @bugcounter and @benjaminchapman" / Twitter
• Yogurt, cultured fermented milk, and health: a systematic review | Nutrition Reviews | Oxford Academic
• A 100-Year Review: Yogurt and other cultured dairy products - ScienceDirect
• Creamy Homemade Yogurt Recipe - NYT Cooking
• Modeling of the Competitive Growth of Listeria monocytogenes and Lactococcus lactis in Vegetable Broth | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• ComBase

256. Sniffing Milk Instead Using Expiration Dates

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sniffing milk instead using expiration dates.

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

• Morrisons scraps use by dates on milk in favour of sniff test | News | The Grocer
• Short communication: Bacterial ecology of high-temperature, short-time pasteurized milk processed in the United States - ScienceDirect
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a cause of infectious diarrhoea - PubMed
• Identification and Pathogenic Potential of Clinical Bacillus and Paenibacillus Isolates - PubMed

135. Coffee (Or Tea) With Milk on a Mug Warmer for 6 Plus Hours

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of keeping coffee (or tea) with milk on a mug warmer for 6 plus hours.

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

• Cortex - Relay FM
• Relay FM
• FSIS Salmonella Compliance Guidelines for Small and Very Small Meat and Poultry Establishments that Produce Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Products and Revised Appendix A | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• I like my sugar with coffee and cream - YouTube
• Ember®: The World’s First Temperature Control Mug
• ComBase Perfringens Predictor
• CB Premium

128. Milk on the Counter Over Night

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from leaving milk on the counter over night.

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

• pandasPause on Twitter
• Casey Neistat - Wikipedia
• Allen Pike on Twitter: "@atpfm I laughed so hard at “Who the hell is Casey” that I had to pause the podcast
• Casey Liss (@caseyliss) / Twitter
• ComBase