Amazingly, all it would take for America to have safe-to-eat cookie dough would be to stop pressure washing the fucking eggs. Does America love pressure-washing eggs more than eating cookie dough? Seems so!
My mum used to let me eat raw cake batter out of the bowl, because it was safe in the UK. Maybe it wasn’t as safe as she thought, and I just lucked into never getting salmonella 😬
Amazingly, all it would take for America to have safe-to-eat cookie dough would be to stop pressure washing the fucking eggs. Does America love pressure-washing eggs more than eating cookie dough? Seems so!
Its the raw flour too.
In fact it’s almost entirely the flour. Raw eggs are pretty safe these days
The guidance on this changed in recent years: https://www.food-safety.com/articles/9668-ukhsa-conducts-first-investigation-of-salmonella-stec-risks-associated-with-uk-raw-flour-products
My mum used to let me eat raw cake batter out of the bowl, because it was safe in the UK. Maybe it wasn’t as safe as she thought, and I just lucked into never getting salmonella 😬