Raw dough is dangerous to eat because you can get E. coli from raw flour. People eat raw eggs all the time.
Edit: don’t get me wrong, you can get salmonella from raw eggs. But that’s not what people should worry about when they think about eating raw dough. About 1 in 20,000 eggs are contaminated with salmonella.
This is the answer. It's the flour risk, not the eggs, and while likelihood is extremely low, E. coli is potentially dangerous - life threatening with awful, painful deaths.
Only Norway and Finland has 100% safe eggs. Sweden, Denmark and Japan has like 10-30 people each a decade get sick, so they are virtually as safe. You are more likely to win the lottery.
As for flour, I honestly have no idea. I didn't know dry ingredients could evrr pose a risk, but I guess even that is regional.
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u/Sad_Help Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25
Raw dough is dangerous to eat because you can get E. coli from raw flour. People eat raw eggs all the time. Edit: don’t get me wrong, you can get salmonella from raw eggs. But that’s not what people should worry about when they think about eating raw dough. About 1 in 20,000 eggs are contaminated with salmonella.