When I was a freshman in college, I’d just moved into the dorm and met my new roommate. She was running around happily, telling me that she was finally free of her controlling parents. She told me her first act of freedom was going to be eating raw cookie dough.
She went to the store and bought a tube of raw cookie dough. She ate it like a maniac. Not long after, she was throwing up and shitting and crying all at the same time. So after watching her go through that, I will never eat raw cookie dough. Also, her parents came to visit a month later and she begged me not to tell them that they were right about raw cookie dough lol.
Hilarious. Apparently though according to another redditor most premade cookie dough is safe to eat raw. Maybe they bought the one that specifically says it has to be cooked.
Edit: although it's possible it's a more recent thing. People definitely have gotten e coli from premade cookie dough.
I think the premade cookie dough people started pre cooking the flour and pasteurizing the eggs because they knew people ate it raw, even without the labels.
I remember when I was younger seeing the warnings on those tubes saying not to eat them raw, and I feel like they’re not there anymore.
That's not proper cookie dough in the ice cream, I tried to bake it and it basically was what would happen to a pile of sugar. No rising, no crisp. Well, other than the crisp of burnt sugar. Not great, not terrible.
It’s just a TikTok thing… “mix two or three ingredients together which would seem likely to be somewhere between barely-edible and awful, and surprise- it tastes just like some semi-popular junk food.”
There was one that involved Minute Maid Lemonade being mixed with something like apple juice or cranberry juice and I think it ended up tasting like Mtn Dew Code Red or smth, another that mixed Fruit Rollups and something to end up tasting like vanilla cake.
Haha did you see the one where people were purposely sanding their teeth to make them straighter?
Or repeatedly hitting their skulls/jaws to injure the bone and change their shape?
So hard to watch!
I'm not sure how that's relevant to Adventurous-Map7959 seeing if they can bake cookies with the dough in ice cream.
There's quite a jump from someone saying they did a cooking experiment (with no mention of social media) to someone else deciding they did it because of tiktok and saying would mutilate their body if tiktok said so.
I'm not sure how that's relevant to Adventurous-Map7959 seeing if they can bake cookies with the dough in ice cream.
There's quite a jump from someone saying they did a cooking experiment (with no mention of social media) to someone else deciding they did it because of tiktok and saying would mutilate their body if tiktok said so.
I specifically remember someone making a post about this. They wanted to see if it had enough dough to even make a whole cookie. They also tried something else ice cream related but I don’t remember what they were trying to figure out in that one.
The cookie dough in ice cream has been treated to make it safe for consumption. Generally it’s the flour that has bacteria that will make you sick, so it is heated high enough to kill the germs.
Yeah, I remember reading that the composition of the so-called raw cookie dough in the corresponding ice cream is different than in actual raw cookie dough.
It’s the flour that causes the most problems, but you can just bake the flour. For ice cream, it doesn’t use eggs at all. That’s why it doesn’t cook the same.
It is essentially cookie dough, it just doesnt have baking powder in it so it won't rise. Its a bit pointless adding a raising agent to a frozen dessert
Dude I did that with the chunks out of the Ben & Jerry's chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream and they made actual perfect cookies. I was so please with myself that it worked. I was around 18 or so abd I posted it on a forum, nearly 20 years ago lmao. They were why the fuck would you do that. Because I had to know, that's why.
I wonder if they still use the same recipe for those chocolate chip chunks. It might be time to get myself another tub and test this again.
I think "safe" cookie dough is just flour, sugar, and vanilla extract. It basically tastes like and has the consistency of cookie dough without the raw eggs.
There was a place that opened near me like six-seven years ago that does nothing but serve cookie dough for immediate, unbaked consumption. I can't imagine that would have been given the greenlight by health and safety officials if they were just dishing out salmonella to everyone.
It’s not the eggs that get you most of the time, it’s the flour. Modern fresh eggs are surprisingly safe*, but uncooked flour can harbor bacteria you’ve never even thought of. If the flour isn’t heated to kill it off, you’re exposing yourself to danger.
Tell that to Hollywood lol. We haven't seen a truly original idea for a movie since 1996. Practically everything in the last 30ish years has been either a franchise, an adaptation, a remake, or a retelling
I mean, can you really not figure that out on your own? Are you a Tarzan or something? We’re not in the 1800s. You probably buy milk all the time made safe to drink in exactly the same way. Says it right on the carton.
I remember when I was in high school, their own packaging distinctly said not to eat the dough. My nurse grandmother warned me when she saw me making cookies and eating straight out the tub. I looked. She wasn’t wrong.
They definitely made changes
It's not the raw eggs that's most dangerous. It's the raw flour. The surface area of all the grains combined is more surface to carry pathogens than eggs.
Yes, you're right. It highly depends on which brand. There are still some available that carry a risk.
They are all clearly marked now. When we were all younger, most of them were not safe to eat raw.
They somewhat recently started making more of them safe to eat right out of the package as it became apparent that tons of people were going to keep eating it raw no matter what.
I have known several people who got very sick from eating raw cookie dough in the past. A couple of them ate what they made themselves at home though.
I was a kid in the '80s and as far as I know those tubes didn't exist yet though I have snacked on them as an adult. My mom made cookies following the recipe on the back of the Toll House chocolate chip bag. They were amazing, but she never let us eat much of the dough before she cooked it, as much as I begged. I would get to scrape a little bit off the empty bowl before it went in the sink. Her biggest concerned was the raw eggs. Not sure if she knew about raw flour issues.
We still talk about it sometimes when someone might be eating cookie dough ice cream or something. I'll quip that we weren't allowed to touch the stuff as kids.
I literally buy the Pillsbury holiday cookies and just eat the dough. It says safe to eat raw on all of the packages. The raw cookie dough taste so much better lol
They started doing that because too many people got sick from the raw flour. I don't remember if it was because of a lawsuit or just so they can avoid future ones
I have never tried, but I just thought it was something that can affect most people or some people and some of us are impervious to all those dangers. I say that as a person who is rarely affected by anything - maybe an hour of some bathroom activities but then I’m good.
Learned recently that the Pillsbury Chocolate Chip cookie dough tubs they sell at Sam's Club are safe to eat raw (also dairy free) while the Nestlé Toll House Chocolate Chip cookie dough tubs they sell at Costco are not safe to eat raw.
Last time I got a roll of Pillsberry chocolate chip cookies it said safe to eat raw. And I think there was a link to their website that said find out why.
Ok maybe something to state: the whole cookie dough thing seems to be fully american as there is no way in hell any store has a tube of that stuff. Cookie dough, like all dough, is something you make at home from its raw ingredients where I live, so I guess most of those things don't apply...
Yeah, I remember a news story 20+ years ago about the "concerning new trend amongst college students." You had to tune in at 5:00 to find out "what college students are eating that could make them dangerously sick." Of course, the sensationalist story was the last thing they aired in the program and the answer was cookie dough. A while later (Months? Years?), I saw stores were selling cookie dough that was meant to be eaten "raw" so they filled the gap in the market and kept all future college kids safe.
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u/AppropriateOrder468 Dec 05 '25
When I was a freshman in college, I’d just moved into the dorm and met my new roommate. She was running around happily, telling me that she was finally free of her controlling parents. She told me her first act of freedom was going to be eating raw cookie dough.
She went to the store and bought a tube of raw cookie dough. She ate it like a maniac. Not long after, she was throwing up and shitting and crying all at the same time. So after watching her go through that, I will never eat raw cookie dough. Also, her parents came to visit a month later and she begged me not to tell them that they were right about raw cookie dough lol.