Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating dim sum from bamboo steamer. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Dim sum - Wikipedia National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS) Dashboard | CDC After the pandemic left them empty, dim sum restaurants are bustling once again : NPR No need to clean bamboo steamer Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Dim Sum Chain in Shanghai – Thatsmags.com Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight - YouTube Nearly 100 People Sickened After Attendi...
Jul 26, 2023•17 min•Ep 489•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating boiled freshwater mussels from Lake Winnisquam, New Hampshire Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Lake Winnipesaukee - Wikipedia Lake Winnisquam - Wikipedia Advisories | NH Department of Environmental Services Healthy Swimming Mapper | NH Department of Environmental Services FAQs | NH Department of Environmental Services Healthy Swimming Mapper FRI Cyanobacteria Toxins Aug 2011...
Jul 24, 2023•15 min•Ep 488•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks four year old blackberry freezer jam which may have been temperature abused. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 KathleenS on Twitter: “Eating this seems like a surefire way to end up seriously ill and featured in an episode of @chubbyemu But I’m no scientist. What say you @bugcounter @benjaminchapman #RiskyOrNot https://t.co/UjpgyUQAzm” / Twitter National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I? Jam and Jelly Blackberry Fre...
Jul 21, 2023•8 min•Ep 487•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating a food that a cat has smelled. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Melon and Finn (@melon.n.finn) | TikTok 115. Cats in the Kitchen — Risky or Not? 269. Cat Licked Cake — Risky or Not? What was the first Beatles song over three minutes in length? - BeatlesTrivia.com 65 Beatles songs in under 3 minutes - YouTube Billy Joel- The Entertainer HD - YouTube...
Jul 19, 2023•9 min•Ep 486•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making baby back ribs in your hotel room with a hair drier and a pillow case. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Chef Reactions on Twitter: “We will never break the chain (of custody) https://t.co/8iSmYz59Ep” / Twitter Explicit tag because Chef Reactions curses.
Jul 17, 2023•7 min•Ep 485•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks making a fermented pineapple drink called tepache de piña. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 ★metal★matt★ @mattorantimatt@mstdn.social on Twitter: “@bugcounter @benjaminchapman Tepache de piña #riskyornot (or maybe more specifically how can I ensure I do this safely) https://t.co/aqCseSbDAo” / Twitter Pineapple Tepache Recipe (With Variations) Inactivation of Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Salmonella Enteritidis ...
Jul 14, 2023•8 min•Ep 484•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of wiping lime juice on your skin when in the sun. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Criminalize Straight (Pride Special 2023!) — Lovett or Leave It — Overcast Guy Branum - Wikipedia Phytophotodermatitis ‘Margarita disease’ gets its turn in the limelight | CTV News Sun Exposure | CDC Yellow Book 2024...
Jul 12, 2023•9 min•Ep 483•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of opening a beverage with a snapping turtle. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Food Safety Talk 251: Too Many Brooms — Food Safety Talk Beer Time Billy 🍺 on Instagram: “Who knew turtles were so useful?! I’ll name him squirtle.😂 Follow @beertimebilly if need a squirtle right now!🍻 Credit: @tooturnttony” Tiny Turtles and Salmonella | Healthy Pets, Healthy People | CDC Michelob Ultra 12pk Cans – Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corporat...
Jul 10, 2023•12 min•Ep 482•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating a chopped salad from Portillo’s while pregnant. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Salads | Portillo’s People at Risk: Pregnant Women | FoodSafety.gov Quantitative Assessment of Relative Risk to Public Health from Foodborne Listeria monocytogenes Among Selected Categories of Ready-to-Eat Foods | FDA National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS) Dashboard | CDC Listeria monocytogenes in Gorgonzola: subtypes, diversity and p...
Jul 07, 2023•14 min•Ep 481•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating guacamole that is sparking. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Andy Hamilton on Twitter: “@bugcounter @benjaminchapman 4th of July firework sals? #riskyornot” / Twitter Gustavo on Twitter: “@HeshComps @fuckedupfoods There’s this explanation from youtube Water salt, acid from jalapeños, mixing together to make hydrogen gas when the aluminum spoon touches the salt bridge. The human had acts as the grounds while the alumi...
Jul 05, 2023•18 min•Ep 480•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks making homemade halloumi with fresh raw milk. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Halloumi cheese: the product and its characteristics - PAPADEMAS - 1998 - International Journal of Dairy Technology - Wiley Online Library Halloumi Recipe | Cheese Maker Recipes | Cheese Making Supply Problems with Ultra Pasteurized Milk | Cheese Making Supply 459. AI-Generated Recipes — Risky or Not?...
Jul 03, 2023•11 min•Ep 479•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of living next to a farm. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Farm Visits and Undercooked Hamburgers as Major Risk Factors for Sporadic Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infection: Data from a Case-Control Study in 5 FoodNet Sites | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Vero Cytotoxin–Producing Escherichia coli O157 Gastroenteritis in Farm Visitors, North Wales - PMC Vero Cytotoxigenic Escherichia coli Infection in Dairy Farm Families on JST...
Jun 30, 2023•15 min•Ep 478•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating a tiny spider in a bunch of grapes. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Madeline on Twitter: “@bugcounter @benjaminchapman Accidentally Eating A Tiny Spider In Your Bunch Of Grapes - Risky or Not? (I didn’t actually eat a spider, I found it & removed it but it was so small I wondered if somebody somewhere might make the mistake sometime)” / Twitter Spiders On Grapevines Extremely Deadly Spider Found in Box of Grapes at ...
Jun 28, 2023•10 min•Ep 477•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating the “worlds purest cookie”. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Making the World’s Purest Cookie - YouTube Baking chocolate NIST® SRM® 2384 | Sigma-Aldrich Baking chocolate SDS...
Jun 26, 2023•12 min•Ep 476•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using bamboo straws for smoothies without a brush for cleaning. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Wikipedia Amazon.com : reusable bamboo straws 50 Best Smoothie Recipes | Easy Smoothie Ideas | Recipes, Dinners and Easy Meal Ideas | Food Network Efficacy of neutral electrolyzed water for sanitization of cutting boards used in the preparation of foods - ScienceDirect Jack and Diane but most of t...
Jun 23, 2023•22 min•Ep 475•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using toilet paper to wipe your butt. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: “Hey @benjaminchapman using toilet paper? #RiskyOrNot” / Twitter Ej Dickson on Twitter: “Alpha male lifestyle influencer Paul Saladino, aka Carnivore MD, just told his 1.3 million followers not to use toilet paper after they poop because wiping is dangerous for your “hormonal health.” https://t.co/XjUXMnOr5T” / Twitter Home...
Jun 21, 2023•9 min•Ep 474•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed by the sweetener Splenda based on a recent research study from North Carolina State University. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 NC study discovers chemical in common sweetener damages DNA, can cause cancer Chemical Found in Common Sweetener Damages DNA | NC State News Toxicological and pharmacokinetic properties of sucralose-6-acetate and its parent sucralose: in vitro screening assays - PubMed Susan Schiffman » Electri...
Jun 19, 2023•17 min•Ep 473•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of being in Rutgers University fraternities because of some data shared on Reddit. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 I swabbed every single fraternity on campus and this is the result. : r/rutgers
Jun 16, 2023•12 min•Ep 472•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks draining pasta in your sink instead of a colander. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ AITA for not eating sink pasta? : r/AmItheAsshole Reduction of faecal coliform, coliform and heterotrophic plate count bacteria in the household kitchen and bathroom by disinfection with hypochlorite cleaners | Journal of Applied Microbiology | Oxford Academic Mapping the Kitchen Microbiota in Five European Countries Reveals a Set of Core Bacteria across C...
Jun 14, 2023•15 min•Ep 471•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking cold brew coffee that was recalled because of a missing bolt. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Blame Canada - South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (3/9) Movie CLIP (1999) HD - YouTube 2.7 Million Cans of Coffee Sold at Costco Recalled — Best Life Costco Recall notice...
Jun 12, 2023•13 min•Ep 470•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks consuming marinated feta (with garlic) in oil in a jar bought at a farmers market. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Certified Food Scientist | CIFST Overview of Food Ingredients, Additives & Colors | FDA FRESHFARM on Instagram: “It’s time to praise the CHEESE 🧀 January 20 is NATIONAL CHEESE LOVERS DAY! Did you know that you could stock up on cheese at your…” Amazon.com: Customer Questions & Answers Amazon.com: Danish Feta In Oil and Spic...
Jun 09, 2023•10 min•Ep 469•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks to a child from taking one sip from an open and unrefrigerated container of fruit and veggie blend after 16 hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 https://www.fda.gov/files/food/published/Job-Aid–Time-and-Temperature-Control-for-Safety-Foods.pdf OhMyMega Veggie! | Once Upon a Farm...
Jun 07, 2023•15 min•Ep 468•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming hard boiled eggs stored for five hours at room temperature or for a similar but undetermined amount of time in a bra. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Off Menu Podcast History and applications - The discoverers of calculus 210. Air cooled hard boiled eggs at room temperature — Risky or Not?...
Jun 05, 2023•12 min•Ep 467•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drink wine from a spit bucket like in the movie Sideways. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Sideways (2004) - IMDb Thomas Haden Church - Wikipedia Detection of Norovirus in Saliva Samples from Acute Gastroenteritis Cases and Asymptomatic Subjects: Association with Age and Higher Shedding in Stool - PMC...
Jun 02, 2023•11 min•Ep 466•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming frozen sausage that had gas formation in the freezer. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Tarantino Mild Italian Sausage, 20 Links, 5 lbs | Costco Why is my sausage package puffed up? – Eating Expired (13) Jimmy Dean - Posts | Facebook Ground beef package bloated/blown in freezer but normal when purchased? : r/Cooking Woman explains why you should never eat food products from packet that’s not flat - Mirror Online...
May 31, 2023•12 min•Ep 465•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming frozen tofu that had gas formation in the freezer. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Veronica (@squirrelchomp) / Twitter Tofu balloon. Any have this issue? : r/aldi If You See Bloated Food Packaging, This Is What It Means | Taste of Home I HAVE SOME BAGS OF FROZEN VEGETABLES THAT HAVE EXPANDED SINCE I BOUGHT THEM. THEY HAVE BEEN FROZEN THE ENTIRE TIME, BUT NOW THEY ARE SO FULL OF AIR THAT I CAN’T SQUEEZE THEM. IS T...
May 29, 2023•17 min•Ep 464•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating cookies made with homemade cookie dough left out overnight at room temperature. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 How to Make a Safe, Ready-to-Eat Cookie Dough Appendix E: Water Activity Values of Select Food Ingredients and Products - Water Activity in Foods - Wiley Online Library ComBase...
May 26, 2023•12 min•Ep 463•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from licking a plate that had raw chicken juice on it and was only cleaned with Norwex. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 The Norwex Raw Chicken Demo - YouTube Microfiber Science PWS | Norwex USA Microfiber Testing PWS | Norwex USA Norwex Home - Premium Microfiber & Sustainable Cleaning Products | Norwex USA The change in prevalence of Campylobacter on chicken carcasses during processing: A systematic review - ScienceDirect Baseline ...
May 24, 2023•22 min•Ep 462•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating food cooked in the outdoors by 12 to 14 year old Scouts. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Wood Badge - Wikipedia Cooking Merit Badge Requirements Keeping Your Food Safe | Boy Scouts of America What Merit Badges are required for the Eagle Scout rank? | Boy Scouts of America...
May 22, 2023•15 min•Ep 461•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating that one green potato chip in the bag. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Toxic Glycoalkaloids in Potatoes Nugget of Knowledge: Green potato chips | WYTV This is how poisonous green crisps are - and why you still find them in your packet - Mirror Online Horrific Tales of Potatoes That Caused Mass Sickness and Even Death | Arts & Culture| Smithsonian Magazine Potential Food Safety Problems Related to New Uses of Biote...
May 19, 2023•11 min•Ep 460•Transcript available on Metacast 
