On: I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)

[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 → nkozyra]

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 → philsnow]

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

[astrange → bigiain]

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 → astrange]

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 → sleepybrett]

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

[swiftcoder → bigiain]

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 → nkozyra]

> unless you're making the cookies yourself from scratch

This isn't the default assumption?

[Terr_ → nkozyra]

> 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 → Terr_]

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