748. Butter That a Mouse Churned

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating butter that a mouse churned.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Richard Gere and the Gerbil | Snopes.com
• Two Little Mice Fell Into a Bucket of Cream Lesson
• Is it true that if you shake the creamer cups you get with coffee enough, they turn into butter? : r/NoStupidQuestions
• Fecal Shedding of Zoonotic Food-Borne Pathogens by Wild Rodents in a Major Agricultural Region of the Central California Coast - PMC
• SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, More Cowbell Season 1, Episode 2
• Annie Hall (8/12) Movie CLIP - Can I Confess Something? (1977) HD - YouTube

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?

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

425. Reusing Room Temperature Butter for Sautéing Vegetables

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing room temperature butter for sautéing vegetables.

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

• Risky or Not?
• Heat Inactivation Rates of Botulinum Toxins A, B, E and F in Some Foods and Buffers - Woodburn- 1979 - Journal of Food Science - Wiley Online Library
• Conditions associated with Clostridium sporogenes growth as a surrogate for Clostridium botulinum in nonthermally processed canned butter - PubMed
• Botulism outbreak in a rural Ethiopia: a case series | BMC Infectious Diseases | Full Text
• Outbreaks of Botulism at Albany, Oregon, and Sterling, Colorado, February, 1924 on JSTOR

422. Butter Candles

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using butter candles.

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

• Landon Conover on Twitter: "⁦@bugcounter⁩ and ⁦@benjaminchapman⁩, here is another viral trend that might make a good #riskyornot. Merry Christmas and thanks for an awesome show! https://t.co/OCj0XHZQA4" / Twitter
• Ain’t Too Proud To Meg on Instagram: “Follow @ainttooproudtomeg. VIRAL BUTTER CANDLE 🧈🕯️ What do you think? #foodtrend #buttercandle #feedfeed #food52 #tastemademedoit”
• Butter Candle · i am a food blog
• Elements of a Candle: Wicks - National Candle Association

368. Butter Boards

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of the hot new TikTok trend of butter boards.

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

• Happy Carcoochie Board 2022!
• Butter board trend sickens TikTok: 'Heart attack on a plate'
• Butter Boards Are Spreading Across TikTok - The New York Times
• Butter > #butterboard #butter
• Bacteria and Various Cutting Board Materials by Dean O. Cliver Ph.D
• Preliminary assessment of microbial quality of edible flowers - ScienceDirect

360. Redditer's Purple Butter

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating butter that has turned purple.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• What is this purple stuff in my butter dish? : biology
• Butter Bell | French Butter Crock - YouTube
• Why the heck did my butter turn purple? - cooking | Ask MetaFilter
• Purps butter - Imgur
• First attempt at cannabutter (purple butter) : treedibles
• Serratia marcescens - Wikipedia
• Microorganisms | Free Full-Text | What Is Candida Doing in My Food? A Review and Safety Alert on Its Use as Starter Cultures in Fermented Foods
• Candida glabrata: Review of Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Clinical Disease with Comparison to C. albicans - PMC

41: Butter at Room Temperature

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing butter at room temperature

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

• Exposure of Listeria monocytogenes within an epidemic caused by butter in Finland - ScienceDirect
• Viability of Pathogenic Organisms in Butter.
• Applied Dairy Microbiology, Second Edition - Google Books
• Can You Leave Butter Out?
• Food Safety During Power Outage | FoodSafety.gov
• Microbiological Safety and Quality of Food - Google Books
• Evaluation and Definition of Potentially Hazardous Foods
• Viability of Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Listeria monocytogenes in butter, yellow fat spreads, and margarine as affected by temperature and physical abuse - ScienceDirect

40: Refrozen Butter

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of refreezing butter.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

• Which Foods Can be Refrozen and Which Can't - UGA
• The Big Thaw