I made French silk pie with regular eggs (not pasteurized) is it safe?
Used organic eggs but didn't read the recipe before making the pie and didn't have time to buy pasteurized eggs. I did, however, heat up the chocolate before adding it to the egg mixture but I don't think it was hot enough to cook it well.
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The issues as I laid out were basic, and you shouldnt make these types of health and safety decisions on behalf of others. It is dangerous. When I cross the road I still look both ways, I dont close my eyes and hope i will cross and not be hit.
As for the arguments on food safety where persons state-they used to do it-and were fine, thats inaccurate also. Many persons did get sick, now they know why. Even 100 years ago they knew very little about these things. Many unsanitary practices have been removed from our behavior based on expanding knowledge, this is just one of them, others include washing your hands, just as one example.
Dont roll the dice with these things. Just because you havent gotten sick from raw eggs, doesnt mean it wont happen in the future. My best advice is to always err on the side of safety, and brush up on Statistics 101 :).
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But then, so could my next trip in a car or walk down the street. Risk is an ever-present part of life, and reasonable people can disagree about the amount they feel comfortable in assuming. I happen to think that, in our increasingly germophobic culture, many people deny themselves pleasure because they're unreasonably afraid of risks whose likelihood is extremely remote. But that's my opinion; everyone makes their own call.
Anyway, as for me, I'm going to keep eating and serving runny-yolk eggs and encouraging my granddaughter to lick the brownie batter from the beaters (her mother, the nurse, does it too!). And if you don't want that piece of french silk pie, I'll take it. The snark? That you can keep for yourself.
As for me, if you don't want that piece of french silk pie, I'll take it.
As for your French Silk pie (awesome dessert btw), I wouldnt serve it, and chalk it up to experience-a small price to pay for a waste of fine ingredients. The odds are definitely in you favor that it will be perfectly fine, but these odds arent like the lottery-when you win, its disastrous.
One other note of caution here, whenever I make raw egg recipes, even with pasteurized eggs, I am extremely cautious with egg handling (the outer shells in contact with the internal egg is a real issue), I refrigerate and chill items immediately, and never ever keep these items as leftovers.
Safe eating!