[Terr_]

> driving down the road I was inspired to taste some fresh wheat grains in a field

Fun fact: The danger in eating raw cookie-dough isn't primarily from fresh eggs (though they can have problems too) but rather from the raw flour, which before cooking may have a bunch of bacterial nastiness in it.

[throwaway519]

Choking on the mixture is the main danger.

[bigiain]

I wonder if that has a higher death rate than driving to the store to buy it?

[Terr_]

I feel like dividing the outcomes into just two buckets of "direct cause of permanent death" versus "everything else" isn't the ideal way to approach routine decisions about what to eat. :p

("This cardboard is unlikely to kill me, sooooo...")

[eru]

> ("This cardboard is unlikely to kill me, sooooo...")

Yeah, but it ain't much fun to eat, either?

[bigiain]

You just need to wrap it in spicy rodent tape...

[throwaway519]

Both probably higher than taking the subway to work.

[nkozyra]

Raw flour is generally not pasteurized, it's true, but most cookie dough mixes are.

The eggs are a far more likely vector for illness unless you're making the cookies yourself from scratch.

[philsnow]

You can easily pasteurize both eggs* and flour at home, and make Cookie Dough That Won't Kill You (Nearly As Quickly)

* with the right equipment

[bigiain]

I assume "the right equipment" is "an oven", and "Cookie Dough That Won't Kill You" is usually referred to as just "cookies"? ;-)

[astrange]

You can microwave flour to make it safe without actually cooking it.

Don't know about eggs, but some recipe sites claim it works for them too.

[sleepybrett]

microwaves cook eggs, throw some scrambled eggs in a glass and into the microwave you get a very smooth scrambled egg. Unpleasant generally but a lot of coffeeshops do this for breakfast sandwiches.

Perhaps on a low setting?

[astrange]

https://www.thespruceeats.com/pasteurize-eggs-in-the-microwa...

[swiftcoder]

You can pasteurise eggs with a basic sous vide setup. Take any of those home sous vide circulators, set it to 140 F, and once it's up to temperature put the eggs in for 4 minutes...

[account42]

> unless you're making the cookies yourself from scratch

This isn't the default assumption?

[Terr_]

> most cookie dough mixes are

At least where I live, only a minority are advertised as "ready to eat". It's more common to see the opposite, an explicit warning that it must be cooked.

[shermantanktop]

That just puts a frisson of risk into your decision to eat the raw dough, which wasn’t a good idea to begin with.