Kind of a silly question . . .

[sillygirl]

I've been making cookies today and I made a double batch of chocolate chip. I always make them kind of small because I seem to eat the same number of cookies no matter what size they are. I've done this before and my mom always made cookies like this. But what my question is, since I probably made about 10 dozen (at 8 minutes per dozen) the cookie dough sat out for somewhere between 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours before the last cookies were done. Is this bad? I guess the only thing that would go bad is the eggs. I didn't eat any raw dough or anything, but would bacteria grow in that amount of time in the dough? I've never gotten sick from it before, but lately I seem to worry about all of this stuff. What do you think?

[shiva]

I wouldn't worry about that. It's not like they sat out in the sun at a pic nic, you know? I start to worry at about 3 hours. Every Christmas we bake tons of cookies and the dough has to sit out a while. Don't worry about it.

[tayda]

I'm sure you are fine. It's not that much time for cookie dough to be out. Plus you baked them, so that should have killed any salmonella that may have been in it. Just enjoy your cookies and in the future maybe stick the dough back in the fridge between batches if you're really worried about it.

[spilled_milk]

Whenever I worry about things like that I remember that baking things kills the germs. I've seen cookie dough be out for way more time than that, and it's been fine. You will totally be fine.


<3 Anya--

[stephiewephie05]

my dad & i are the worst about eating raw cookie dough, but we never v*ed from it before.

[Eternity]

The temperature of the oven would kill anything that was on the dough atall, n the chances of getting sick from eating even raw dough are minimal, I used to do it every weekend when my grandmother baked, n Im not talkin licking the bowl, I mean eating LOADS of the mixture lol... n although not advisable behaviour, I never got sick from it.

[meercat]

Oh my gosh, i absolutely LOVE raw chocolate chip cookie dough!!!!! I know i'm taking a chance eating it but i can't HELP myself LOL!!! I probably eat 2-3 raw spoonsful each time i make them! One of these times i may regret it, but OHHHHH they're good!!! hahaha!

[liriodendron]

I can't believe there's people here that eat raw cookie dough. That's
dangerous and potentially DEADLY for sensitive groups, nevermind the
V. Keep the dough in the fridge.



1 in 6 eggs, ok?!

Don't take the chance then get sick and assume it's a virus when it's bacteria.</font>

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