I miss being able to eat cake batter.

[greatauntoftriplets]

Just made a cake to celebrate the inauguration (milk chocolate, but don't get excited -- it's from a mix but I'm lazy). The mix called for three eggs (!!!) and had a warning about not eating the cake batter, so I didn't. But I remember a time when I would lick a mixing bowl clean.

[fizzgig]

1. i still lick the bowl

but i understand why others don't. i have guts of cast iron.

[cbayer]

2. Warnings about eggs don't bother me and I still use them raw in recipes and

lick the cake bowls.

Enjoy your cake!

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. It didn't used to bother me either...

until my body started going haywire.

I intend to enjoy the cake. It's cooling right now and I will frost it later (also store-bought fosting).

[cbayer]

5. I don't blame you. You have had enough health issues already.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Exactly.

For that matter, my nephrologist says I shouldn't eat chocolate. I've been pretty good, but sometimes you need to splurge.

[KC]

15. Im curious

why no chocolate?

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. Kidney disease.

My nephrologist says it's not good for me.

[eShirl]

18. probably has to be careful of foods high in phosphorus

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-and-nutrition/HQ01212

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. I take pill to control the phosphorus.

[Major Nikon]

3. It's not a big risk

1 in 10,000 eggs has salmonella. Even if the egg has salmonella, it's not assured that you will get sick if you eat it raw. If all you are doing is licking the bowl clean, you are only eating a very small portion of the raw eggs contained in the total mixture.

[Phentex]

7. That's the best part of making the cake!

and being old enough to do whatever the hell I want. I understand if you have health issues, but I am like a little kid with cake batter.

[gollygee]

8. Get eggs from free range chickens

There is much less danger from their eggs than from factory farmed eggs. I get free range eggs from someone at church and let the kids lick the bowl.

[Phentex]

9. Good point!

Hadn't thought of that.

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. I should do that the next time...

it's just that I rarely makes cakes.

This one is excellent!

[Retrograde]

14. You can also buy pasteurized raw eggs at some stores

more expensive, but if you're paranoid about salmonella and like raw eggs it might be worth it.

I eat raw egg on occasion and the one precaution I take is to avoid ultra-cheap eggs from the Mid-west: I'll pay the extra for eggs produced by smaller businesses here in California. The brown eggs I've been getting recently have been very tasty.

[pinto]

10. When I was a kid I'd get one of the mixer attachments as a treat, especially chocolate...

Licked it clean.

I hear you, though. Now the few times I make a cake or brownies I think twice.

[Phentex]

11. I think about it

for a couple of seconds and then do it.

[TheManInTheMac]

12. What the people and groups promoting the fear of food don't tell you along with that warning

is that the chance of getting salmonella from raw eggs is about 1 in 20,000. Driving to the store to get the eggs is probably riskier behavior.

[wildeyed]

17. I do it anyway.

I like to live dangerously

[kestrel91316]

20. I still eat cake and brownie batter and cookie dough. To hell with the food nannies.

[HappyMe]

21. Me too.

I just don't worry about it.