8: Etrog
Dr. Don and Professor Ben the safety of using Etrog Fruit for preparation of food items.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
7: Unwashed Coffee Cups
Dr. Don and Professor Ben discuss the risks of reusing your coffee cup without washing in between.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
6: Cast Iron Cleaning
Dr. Don and Professor Ben discuss the risks of light cleaning of cast iron pans.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
5: Doner Kebab
Dr. Don and Professor Ben discuss whether doner kebab meat (also called gyro meat) is risky or not when it comes to food poisoning.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - risky ☣️
- Time-Temperature Conditions of Gyros | Journal of Food Protection
- Outbreak of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 infections associated with consumption of beef donair. - PubMed - NCBI
- Management of the Risks Related to Consumption of Donairs and Similar Products (Gyros, Kebabs, Chawarmas and Shawarmas) Health Canada, 2008
4: Vintage Glassware
Dr. Don and Professor Ben venture outside of their food microbiology comfort zone to talk toxicology, specifically about the risks from eating off vintage dishware.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Vintage Pyrex Contains Unsafe Levels of Lead?
- Charity Navigator - CN Advisory of Lead Safe America Foundation
- Pamplin Media Group - Embattled former leader of Lead Safe America says felony charges are bogus
- leachable lead in tableware - U.S. Food and Drug Administration Search Results
- Is it Safe to Eat Off Vintage Plates? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian
- Myth Busting: Is There REALLY Lead in Vintage Pyrex? - Creative Green Living
- Childhood Lead Poisoning from Commercially Manufactured French Ceramic Dinnerware --- New York City, 2003
- How Radioactive Is Fiesta Ware?
- Fiestaware (ca. 1930s)
3: Out of Date Ravioli
Dr. Don and Professor Ben discus the risky posed by consumption of Mushroom Ravioli that is several weeks past it’s use by date.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
2: Refrigerated Grease
Dr. Don and regular co-host Professor Chapman discuss the risks posed by the long term storage of refrigerated cooking grease.
1: Non-Canonical First Episode
In this non-canonical first episode Dr. Don is joined by guest cohost Merlin Mann, and they talk about the risks from carrot water, washing chicken in your sink, eating human flesh and washing pre-washed spinach.
Carrot water - not risky 👍🏼
Washing chicken in your sink - risky ☣️
Human flesh - not risky 👍🏼
Washing triple washed leafy greens - risky ☣️
- Merlin Mann on Twitter: "@tvaziri @bugcounter Not for nothing: if Dr. Don ever did a Robot or Not-style program where he answered obscure food and health questions, I'd be the first subscriber." / Twitter
- Food Safety Talk
- Do By Friday
- Robot or Not? - a podcast from The Incomparable
- Should you wash raw chicken? CDC posts serious reminder about food poisoning
- Chicken and Food Poisoning | Food Safety | CDC
- Don't Wash Your Chicken
- Did a Swedish Scientist Propose Cannibalism as a Solution to Climate Change?
- Recommendations for Handling Fresh-cut Leafy Green Salads by Consumers and Retail Foodservice Operators