601. Reusing Electric Kettle Water

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing electric kettle water.

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

• 102. Perpetual Stew — Risky or Not?
• Aqua | North Carolina
• Amazon.com: Capresso 259.04 H2O Plus Water Kettle, Matte Silver, 48-Ounce: Electric Kettle: Home & Kitchen
• Amazon.com: CACHOO Electric Gooseneck Kettle with Coffee Dripper, Pour Over Coffee Kettle, Hot Water Boiler with Temperature Control, Stainless Steel, LED Display, Auto Shut-off and Keep Warm, 1000W/1L: Home & Kitchen

600. Eating Raw Chicken Every Day

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating raw chicken every day.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Family Feud
• Florida man takes on bizarre challenge of eating raw chicken every day | WFLA
• Raw Chicken Experiment (@rawchickenexperiment) • Instagram photos and videos
• April Fools' Day - Wikipedia
• Baseline Data Raw Chicken Parts
• USDA Progress Report Salmonella Campylobacter CY2014
• Performance Standards Salmonella Verification Program for Raw Poultry Products | Food Safety and Inspection Service

Don wrote a small QMRA on this topic, available here https://go.rutgers.edu/rcQMRA

599. Brining Meat in a Refrigerator Drawer

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of brining meat in a refrigerator drawer without secondary containment.

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

• Dinosaurs on the Ark | Answers in Genesis
• Mind the gap - Wikipedia
• You guys use the Turkey Brining drawer in your fridge too right? : r/smoking

I tried to get a little creative and I told DALL·E to hide the episode number 599 somewhere in the picture, but I couldn't find it. Then I asked DALL·E to indicate the number with a red arrow and this image was the result. If you can find the number in the original image, the first one to prove it to me via the contact us link gets to pick an episode topic!

598. Laura's Misbehaving Fridge

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing food in a refrigerator that keeps food at 42-45 °F.

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

• Changes to Cold Holding Temperatures and Date Marking- North Carolina Public Health
• The “Danger Zone” Reevaluated | Food Safety
• ComBase Home
• Parameters for Determining Inoculated Pack/Challenge Study Protocols - ScienceDirect

597. Using a Netipot with Tap Water

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using a netipot with tap water.

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

• Death by neti pot: Why you shouldn’t use tap water to clean your sinuses | Ars Technica
• Early Release - Acanthamoeba Infection and Nasal Rinsing, United States, 1994–2022 - Volume 30, Number 4—April 2024 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
• Neti pot: Can it clear my nose? - Mayo Clinic
• Amazon.com: Ceramic Neti Pot for Nasal Sinus Cleansing Wash Irrigation Relief - Microwave and Dishwasher Safe - Petite : Health & Household
• Can Expired Pancake Mix Kill You? | POPSUGAR Food
• An unusual case of anaphylaxis. Mold in pancake mix - PubMed
• Henry (patient) | House Wiki | Fandom

596. Homemade Cashew Cheese

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of homemade cashew cheese.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• U.S. Consumer Practices of Homemade Nut-based Dairy Analogs and Soaked Nuts - ScienceDirect
• Go-to Cashew Cheese Recipe | The Full Helping
• Outbreak of S. Weltevreden linked to fermented cashew nut cheese in Victoria, BC
• Weltevreden (How to Pronounce Cities of the World)💬⭐🌍✅ - YouTube
• A Review of Outbreak Investigations of Salmonella Infections Associated with Cashews and Cashew-Containing Food Products in the U.S. | Food Safety
• Food Safety Implications of Online Recipes for Preparing Soaked Nuts and Nut-Based Dairy Analogs. | Food Protection Trends | EBSCOhost
• Fermentation of Aqueous Plant Seed Extracts by Lactic Acid Bacteria | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• ‎Safety of fermented foods. Assessing risks in fermented food processing practices and advice on how to mitigate them. Section 3.7 Plant-based cheese. Environmental Health Services, BC Centre for Disease Control.

595. Groceries in a Car Trunk in the Winter for Four and a Half Hours

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from consuming groceries stored in a car trunk in the winter for about four and a half hours.

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

• Welsh language - Wikipedia
• Story Arcs: 5 Elements, Examples & How To Write Them Well
• Controlling Listeria monocytogenes in Post-lethality Exposed Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• Using car trunk as freezer during winter. : r/Frugal
• Will meat remain safe in my trunk?
• Do not leave these 8 things in your car during cold weather in winter
• A Spring Spent Inside A Car Trunk: Tracking Temperature for 3 Months in the Midwest
• Fav Jim Dickskin bit? : r/Letterkenny
• Jim Dickens | Letterkenny Wiki | Fandom
• Alex McCooeye - IMDb

594. Expired Sushi in a Unplugged Refrigerator for 7 Hours

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating out of date sushi from a refrigerator that was unplugged for about seven hours.

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

• Bug Juice Fruit Punch - The Nerdy Gourmet
• Bug Juice Drink Recipe - Punch
• Histamine fish poisoning: a common but frequently misdiagnosed condition - PubMed
• Histamine - Wikipedia
• FDA Chapter 7: Scombrotoxin (Histamine) Formation
• Modelling the effect of temperature, carbon dioxide, water activity and pH on growth and histamine formation by Morganella psychrotolerans - ScienceDirect

593. Cooking With Aluminium Foil

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed by cooking with aluminum foil.

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

• Aluminum | Public Health Statement | ATSDR
• Leaching of aluminium from cookwares -- a review | Environmental Geochemistry and Health
• The Effect of Cooking Conditions on Aluminum Concentrations of Seafood, Cooked in Aluminum Foil: Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology: Vol 29 , No 2
• Aluminum contamination of food during culinary preparation: Case study with aluminum foil and consumers’ preferences - PMC
• Karlovarský knedlík - Carlsbad dumpling - Czechology
• Mofongo [Recipe + Video] How to Make an Amazing Plantain Dish
• Traditional Puerto Rican Mofongo (25 Minutes!) | Salima's Kitchen

592. Eating Pickles From a Vat That a Man Dunked His Head Into

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating pickles from a vat that someone has dunked their head into.

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

• Glassboro police searching for man accused of dunking head in pickle jar at Heritage store - 6abc Philadelphia
• Sky blue beach chairs on West Main St #streetseats #street_seats #streetart #artiseverywhere #mendham #mendhamnj #mendhamboro #takeaseat | Instagram
• Ordinance of the Borough of Mendham, in the County of Morris and State of New Jersey, Amending the Borough Code to Permit Outdoor Dining and Outdoor Seating to Facilitate Small Business Recovery Needed in Light of the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency
• Mendham Borough, New Jersey - Wikipedia
• dc _ bathrooms (@dc_bathrooms) • Instagram photos and videos
• Official Website of the Borough of GlassboroOfficial Website of the Borough of Glassboro
• 582. Soup After Someone Has Tasted That Soup From the Ladle in a Grocery Store Hot Bar — Risky or Not?
• pickles - Risky or Not?

591. Drinking Water From Switzerland's 7,000 Lakes

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking untreated lakewater from Switzerland.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• IAFP Post on LinkedIn
• European Symposium - International Association for Food Protection
• Jet d'Eau - Wikipedia
• National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA)
• Increased Levels of Multiresistant Bacteria and Resistance Genes after Wastewater Treatment and Their Dissemination into Lake Geneva, Switzerland - PMC

590. Kejni's Extra-Crispy Roast Potato Recipe

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of leaving boiled chunks of Yukon gold potatoes at room temperature overnight.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• J. Kenji López-Alt
• James Neal (ice hockey) - Wikipedia
• Last night I followed the beginning of my extra-crispy roast potato recipe (I boiled chunks of Yukon golds in water with salt and a pinch… | Instagram
• Large Outbreak of Botulism: The Hazardous Baked Potato | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic
• Restaurant-Associated Type a Botulism: Transmission by Potato Salad | American Journal of Epidemiology | Oxford Academic
• Combined effect of water activity and pH on inhibition of toxin production by Clostridium botulinum in cooked, vacuum-packed potatoes | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Presence and Significance of Bacillus cereus in Dehydrated Potato Products - ScienceDirect
• Influence of temperature shifts on survival, growth, and toxin production by psychrotrophic and mesophilic strains of Bacillus cereus in potatoes and chicken gravy - ScienceDirect
• Presence and Growth of Bacillus cereus in Dehydrated Potato Flakes and Hot-Held, Ready-to-Eat Potato Products Purchased in New Zealand - ScienceDirect
• 154. Michael Scott Bacon Method — Risky or Not?

589. Hamburger Left in Car for Three Days

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating a smelly hamburger left in car for three days.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• All-American Cheeseburger - Nearby For Delivery or Pick Up | Buffalo Wild Wings
• McDonald's Burger Survives 20 Years and Still Looks Fresh off the Grill - Interesting Engineering
• Control of Clostridium perfringens in Cooked Ground Beef by Carvacrol, Cinnamaldehyde, Thymol, or Oregano Oil during Chilling - ScienceDirect

588. Swollen Can of Surströmming

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating surströmming from a swollen can.

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

• Surströmming - Wikipedia
• Fermented and ripened fish products in the northern European countries - ScienceDirect
• Discovering microbiota and volatile compounds of surströmming, the traditional Swedish sour herring - ScienceDirect
• Safety of Fermented Fish Products - ScienceDirect
• Fermented and ripened fish products in the northern European countries - ScienceDirect
• Strictly anaerobic halophiles isolated from canned Swedish fermented herrings (Surströmming) - ScienceDirect
• Swollen can of surströmming - SURSTRÖMMING - THE OFFICIAL STORE

587. Homemade Jerky From Facebook Marketplace

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating homemade beef jerky from facebook marketplace.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Marketplace - Beef jerky | Facebook
• Jerky and Food Safety | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• FSIS Compliance Guideline for Meat and Poultry Jerky Produced by Small and Very Small Establishments | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• Jersey Mike's Subs - Menu
• Fate of Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella Species in Ground Beef Jerky - ScienceDirect
• Home-Style Beef Jerky: Effect of Four Preparation Methods on Consumer Acceptability and Pathogen Inactivation - ScienceDirect
• About Uncle Mike's | Uncle Mike's
• The Naughty Nineties | Who’s on First? — Abbott and Costello - YouTube
• Marketplace - Apple Mac Pro (Late 2013)-$500(Wake Forest, Raleigh) | Facebook

586. Jane's Raw Ground Beef in the Deli Station

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing raw ground beef in a deli preparation station near ready-to-eat foods.

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

• FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Ground Beef Products That Tested Positive for E. Coli O157:H7 | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• Sampling Verification Activities for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia Coli (STEC) in Raw Beef Products - Revision 6 | Food Safety and Inspection Service
• Management of Risk of Microbial Cross-Contamination from Uncooked Frozen Hamburgers by Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer - ScienceDirect
• Public Health Effects of Performance Standards for Ground Beef and Beef Manufacturing Trimmings

585. Drinking From a "Common Cup" for Communion

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of drinking from a "common cup" for communion.

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

• Holy Communion and Infection Transmission: A Literature Review - PMC
• Risk of the Common Communion Cup
• Risk of Infectious Disease Transmission from a Common Communion Cup - St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church & School
• Risk of Infectious Disease Transmission from a Common Communion Cup - ScienceDirect
• Risk of Infectious Disease Transmission from a Common Communion Cup - American Journal of Infection Control
• Could The Stanley Cup Spread Disease? | NC State News
• 153. Drinking From the Stanley Cup, COVID Edition — Risky or Not?
• Big Dumb Cups - SNL - YouTube
• Stanley Drinkware & Gear | Bottles, Tumblers, Growlers & More – Stanley 1913
• A note about receiving Holy Communion by intinction | Diocese in Europe

584. Chicken Washed With Bleach and Soap

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating chicken washed with bleach and soap

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• KING 👑 on X: "If y’all needed some understanding as to why you don’t eat at everybody’s house here’s some. https://t.co/N2BDpDavRq" / X
• Cleaning and Disinfecting With Bleach | CDC
• Effect of Exposure of Meat and Poultry to Chlorinated Water on the Retention of Chlorinated Compounds and Water - Cunningham - 1977 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library
• Su1776 A Series of Detergent Pod Ingestions in Toddlers - Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
• Household bleaches based on sodium hypochlorite: Review of acute toxicology and poison control center experience - ScienceDirect
• Cleaning and Disinfectant Chemical Exposures and Temporal Associations with COVID-19 — National Poison Data System, United States, January 1, 2020–March 31, 2020 | MMWR

583. Food From a Table With Live Fish Swimming in It

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating at a table with live fish swimming in it.

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

• A tea table with a filter#teatable #table #coffeetable #diningtable #woodentable #desk #carpentry #fishculture #fish #growflowers #tealife | Instagram
• XIMU Tea House
• Place a table by the window for coffee and fish farming.#table#teatable#coffeetable #diningtable #woodentable #desk #carpentry #fishculture… | Instagram
• Fish | Healthy Pets, Healthy People | CDC
• 213. Eating on an Active Fishing Pier — Risky or Not?
• 290. Yeeting a Real Fish Into a Crowd — Risky or Not?
• 493. Visiting a Fish Market — Risky or Not?

582. Soup After Someone Has Tasted That Soup From the Ladle in a Grocery Store Hot Bar

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of getting soup after someone has tasted that soup from the ladle in a grocery store hot bar.

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

• @ask_aubry • This is why I have trust issues. • Threads
• Serving Up Safe Buffets | FDA
• Minimally Invasive Saliva Testing to Monitor Norovirus Infection in Community Settings | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic
• An Outbreak of Norovirus Infection from Shellfish Soup Due to Unforeseen Insufficient Heating During Preparation - PubMed