447. Repeated Hot Fudge Temperature Cycling

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of repeatedly reheating hot fudge in a microwave.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Robbie Williams – Hot Fudge Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
• Hot Chocolate (band) - Wikipedia)
• Hot Fudge | Smucker's®
• Microbiological safety of chocolate confectionery products - New Food Magazine
• Hot Fudge - song and lyrics by Johnny & The Hurricanes | Spotify
• Vanilla Fudge
• Hot Hot Heat
• MC5 - Wikipedia
• The Dave Clark Five - Wikipedia

446. Ice Cream From a Malfunctioning Freezer

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating soft ice cream from a malfunctioning freezer.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Welcome - Rutgers AAUP-AFT
• 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) | CDC
• Listeria Outbreak Linked to Ice Cream | CDC
• Frontiers | Listeria monocytogenes Growth Kinetics in Milkshakes Made from Naturally and Artificially Contaminated Ice Cream
• Mark Knopfler - Boom, Like That Lyrics | AZLyrics.com
• Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's: Kroc, Ray: 8601300195858: Amazon.com: Books
• Kelis - Milkshake (Official HD Video) - YouTube

PS, the strike was suspended at 12:41 AM on April 15, 2023.

445. Old Meat Sticks

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from old meat sticks.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "@CrucialTK #NotRisky!" / Twitter
• Emma Hartnett » Risk Sciences International
• What is Landjaeger? - Hempler's Foods
• Landjaeger Snack Sticks – Wisconsin Cheese Mart
• Meat Bars: A Survey To Assess Consumer Familiarity and Preparation Parameters and a Challenge Study To Quantify Viability of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Cells during Processing and Storage - PubMed
• Food Safety and Defense » Risk Sciences International
• Risk Assessment of Lethality Standards for RTE Meat and Poultry Products - Executive Summary
• Risk Assessment of Lethality Standards for RTE Meat and Poultry Products

444. Marrying the Ketchup

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from marrying the ketchup.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Marrying the Ketchups - How To - Author Jennifer Close - YouTube
• Television review: '2 Broke Girls' - Los Angeles Times
• Gross Things Restaurants Do to Save Money | Reader's Digest
• Why You Shouldn't Use the Pepper Shakers at a Restaurant | The Healthy
• Ghostbusters: "Print is Dead" - YouTube
• Survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella spp. in Acidic Condiments - PubMed
• Flying Spaghetti Monster - Wikipedia

443. College Students Selling Foods to the Community

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from college students selling foods to the community.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• How It Works | Bites | Eat With Your Tribe
• AB626: Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations - Consumer Protection Division - County of Santa Clara
• Freewill Lyrics | Rush.com
• California Food Handlers Card | eFoodcard
• 90210 (TV series) - Wikipedia)
• About Me Chef Matt Collins

442. Restaurant Misting Fans

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about food safety and other risks from restaurant misting fans.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Restaurant Misting Systems - Koolfog
• A Shopper’s Eye View of Food Safety at Retail Stores: Lessons from Photographs Taken while Grocery Shopping
• Produce Misting Literall Prevents Shrink | Produce Business Magazine
• Remembering Jim Prevor by Harris S. Cutler, Race-West Company - Produce Business
• N.C. Officials Trace 124 Legionnaires' Disease Cases To Hot Tub At A Fair : NPR
• Legionnaires’ disease outbreak associated with the North Carolina Mountain State Fair, 2019

441. Pooled Eggs in the Fridge for 10 Days

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing cracked pooled eggs in the fridge for 10 days.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Pocket Full of Kryptonite - Wikipedia
• Romeo Toledo | LinkedIn
• Romeo T. Toledo's research works | University of Georgia, GA (UGA) and other places
• Toledo
• Isolation of Listeria Spp. From Faecal Samples of Cracked Egg Fed Chickens and Rapd Analysis of Listeria Monocytogenes Strains

440. Ketchup in the Cabinet

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing ketchup in the cabinet.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Botulism Associated with Commercial Carrot Juice --- Georgia and Florida, September 2006
• Should you keep ketchup in the fridge or pantry?
• Acidity/pH of common food and beverages Chagrin Falls OH, Dentistry at Winbury
• Chagrin Falls-The Tragically Hip - YouTube
• Clemson pH of common foods
• Over two thousand estimations of the pH of representative foods - SpringerLink
• The Tragically Hip - Chagrin Falls Lyrics | SongMeanings

439. Gloves

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using non-sterile gloves in foodservice.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Study finds half of new disposable gloves carry microbes from poo | Stuff.co.nz
• Researchgate Barry-Michaels/Metagenomic-Analysis-of-the-Microbiome-Associated-with-Single-Use-Glove-Manufacturing.pdf
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry-Michaels/publication/334684419_Viability-Linked_Metagenomic_Analysis_of_the_Disposable_Glove_Microbiome/links/5d3a10c892851cd04686b6a1/Viability-Linked-Metagenomic-Analysis-of-the-Disposable-Glove-Microbiome.pdf
• Validation of the Single-Use Glove Microbiome Shotgun WGS Metagenomic Analysis
• Comparative Pathogenomics of Escherichia coli: Polyvalent Vaccine Target Identification through Virulome Analysis | Infection and Immunity

438. Half Year Old Aged Steak in Cheese Wax

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating half year old steak aged in cheese wax.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• I Dry-Aged steaks in CHEESE WAX for 1/2 yr and ate it! - YouTube
• Microbiological safety of aged meat | EFSA
• Is Waxed Cheese Safe for Food Storage? | USU
• Coatings | Free Full-Text | Characterization of Beeswax, Candelilla Wax and Paraffin Wax for Coating Cheeses

437. Dolly's Dry Pickles

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating pickles refrigerated without the juice.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Pickles - Risky or Not?
• Amazon.com : freeze dried pickles
• Freeze Dried Dill Pickles Freeze Dry Pickles Dried Dill - Etsy

436. Zach's Day Old Breakfast Popcorn

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of leaving buttered popcorn with spices at room temperature overnight.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Leftover food triggered disease that left teen without legs, fingers
• Case Challenge — A 19-Year-Old Man with Shock, Multiple Organ Failure, and Rash — NEJM
• 20-Year-Old Dies Of 'Fried Rice Syndrome' After Eating 5-Day-Old Pasta | KFI AM 640
• Sudden Death of a Young Adult Associated with Bacillus cereus Food Poisoning - PMC
• What Is Tajin Seasoning? How Do You Use It?

435. Cooked Fruit Pie Stored at Room Temperature

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating cooked fruit pie stored at room temperature.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Evaluation and Definition of Potentially Hazardous Foods
• Incidence and Growth of Bacillus cereus in Retail Pumpkin Pies 1 - PubMed
• How to Make a Sweet Southern Persimmon Pie - Mama on the Homestead
• About - Mama on the Homestead

434. Pastor Pinkstons Brownie Batter Bonanza

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating uncooked brownie batter made without eggs.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "@gregpinkston @benjaminchapman Darn, this is a good one. (The first draft of that sentence had a curse word in it, but I shouldn’t curse to a pastor). Some of these mixes have been linked to outbreaks, but I’m gonna give it a tentative #NotRisky. Added to the queue!" / Twitter
• Betty Crocker™ Brownies and Bars - BettyCrocker.com
• E. Coli scare leads to multi-state recall of brownie mix
• Outbreak of E. coli Infections Linked to Flour | E. coli Infections Linked to Flour | May 2019 | E. coli | CDC
• Recall of Brownie and Other Food Mixes Expanded | Food Safety News
• Betty Crocker™ Fudge Brownie Mix - BettyCrocker.com
• Jane's Addiction - Stop (Official Music Video) | Warner Vault - YouTube

433. 17 Year Old Pickle Brine

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming 17 year old pickle brine.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• What is this white stuff in my 17 year old pickle brine? How to fix th... | TikTok
• Recipes | Cookingbomb | United States

432. Bog Butter

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating modern homemade bog butter.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• bruce bogbutter on Twitter: "some of you may remember that me and some pals went and buried some butter in a bog. today we retrieved it. it tasted extremely Ripe. https://t.co/7VBOa9MuR9" / Twitter
• Bog butter - Wikipedia
• DEVO "Whip It" [Official Music Video] - YouTube
• Butter was stored in bogs 3,500 years ago, researchers reveal – The Irish Times
• Ancient Bog Butter – Dublin, Ireland - Gastro Obscura
• BOG BUTTER on JSTOR
• Composition of ancient Irish bog butter - ScienceDirect
• Bog Butter: A Two Thousand Year History on JSTOR
• Phylogenetic Analysis and In Situ Identification of Bacteria Community Composition in an Acidic Sphagnum Peat Bog | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

431. Eating at a Restaurant Operating Without Power

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating in a restaurant without power.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Waffle House - Good Food Fast
• Nashville restaurant owner says power outage costing him business
• FATTOUSH CAFE - 1716 Charlotte Ave, Nashville, Tennessee - 104 Photos & 169 Reviews - Middle Eastern - Restaurant Reviews - Phone Number - Menu - Yelp
• Fattoush Cafe - Menu - Nashville
• https://www.orangecountync.gov/DocumentCenter/View/17418/2017-FoodCodeAdoption-Summary-of-Changes-FINAL-WITH-EDITS-2021?bidId=
• Emergency Action Plan for Retail Food Establishment | Conference-Developed Guides and Documents | Conference for Food Protection
• ‎www.foodprotect.org/media/guide/Emergency%20Action%20Plan%20for%20Retail%20food%20Est.pdf
• Power Outage Guidance for Food Establishments | Washington State Department of Health
• 5: Doner Kebab — Risky or Not?

430. Wearing Silver-Threaded Clothing

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from wearing silver-threaded clothing.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• The Molecular Effect of Wearing Silver-Threaded Clothing on the Human Skin | mSystems
• Mack Weldon Underwear - Men's Underwear | Mack Weldon
• Full article: Silver as an antimicrobial: facts and gaps in knowledge
• 32 DEGREES Mens 3 Pack Active Mesh Boxer Brief
• Shop Graphic Tees, Hoodies, Phone Cases, and More. | Cotton Bureau

429. TikTok Fridge-Decorating Trend

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of decorating the inside of your refrigerator.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• People Are Up In Arms About This TikTok Fridge-Decorating Trend

428. Semi-Firm Cheese at 45-55 °F for an Undetermined Amount of Time

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing cheddar and gouda cheese at 45-55 °F for an undetermined amount of time.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Everything you need to know about Semi-Hard Cheese | Castello | Castello
• CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21
• The Nibble: Types Cheese
• Curd Clinic: Cheese Safety/Storage
• Risk assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in Gouda cheese — Research@WUR