675. Working Out in a Gym With a Live Chicken

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from working out in a gym with a live chicken.

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

• Monmouth University
• CDC warns of Salmonella outbreaks linked to backyard poultry flocks | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC
• Risk factors for Salmonella persistence after cleansing and disinfection in French broiler-chicken houses - ScienceDirect
• 611. Eating at a Restaurant Under a Bridge — Risky or Not?
• 535. Adults Eating at Picnic Tables With a Little Bit of Dried Bird Poop — Risky or Not?

661. Blowing Air Over Raw Chicken

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of blowing air over raw chicken.

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

• Alton Brown | Dry that chicken! #chicken #refrigeratorlife #goodeats | Instagram
• Brian Brozovic on X: "#riskyornot, taking into account FSIS Appendix A will be followed for cooking, so specifically airborne risk from household fan being applied to direct surface of raw poultry for rapid thawing @benjaminchapman @bugcounter https://t.co/VYPEPFokjd" / X
• Airborne Bacteria and Carcass Contamination in Slaughterhouses - ScienceDirect
• Distribution and Prevalence of Airborne Microorganisms in Three Commercial Poultry Processing Plants - ScienceDirect
• Microbial Composition in Bioaerosols of a High-Throughput Chicken-Slaughtering Facility - ScienceDirect
• Mechanically Ventilated Broiler Sheds: a Possible Source of Aerosolized Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Escherichia coli | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Temperature control: food safety tips | North Devon Council

635. Eating 3-Day-Old Fast Food Chicken Tacos

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating properly refrigerated 3-day-old fast food chicken tacos.

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

• Merch — Risky or Not?
• Carnac the Magnificent - Wikipedia
• Who Has The Worst Fast Food Leftovers? - YouTube
• FoodKeeper App | FoodSafety.gov

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

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

499. Cooking Raw Chicken in a Rice Cooker

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cooking raw chicken in a rice cooker.

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

• Need an Idea for Easy Meal Prep? Make Dinner in Your Rice Cooker. - Eater
• I’m all about low effort dishes that taste amazing.. and this is one o... | Rice Cooker Recipes | TikTok
• 31: Rice Left in a Warming Rice Cooker Over Night — Risky or Not?
• USDA FSIS Appendix A
• Veronica (@squirrelchomp) / X
• Chicken Dry Curry | Zojirushi.com
• Rice Cooker Chicken and Soy Sauce Rice - Jasmine and Tea

420. Chicken in a Waffle Maker

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cooking chicken drumsticks in a waffle maker.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Christian Johnson Ent. 💫🏁 on Instagram: “CHICKEN ON A WAFFLE MAKER?? 🥴😳😂 #ChristianJohnsonComedy Follow Me! @christianjohnsoncomedy…”
• Waffled Chicken with Spicy Syrup Recipe | Food Network Kitchen | Food Network
• Location Finder | Maple Street Biscuit Company

362. Nyquil Chicken

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from making and eating Nyquil chicken.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• F.D.A. Warning on NyQuil Chicken Alerts Many to Existence of NyQuil Chicken - The New York Times
• A Recipe for Danger: Social Media Challenges Involving Medicines | FDA
• What Cooking Chicken in NyQuil Actually Does to Your Body
• Twitter's Main Character | Know Your Meme

353. Cooking Chicken in a Hotel Coffeepot

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of trying to cook a chicken in a "hotel" coffeepot.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Nick Dawson on Twitter: "@bugcounter @benjaminchapman from Reddit…chicken cooked in a hotel room coffee carafe 🤢https://t.co/t1Ad7LjgcO" / Twitter
• Dave Harbarger on Twitter: "@bugcounter Apparently satire… but…here’s a link to the original poster on Twitter. https://t.co/z8kAeeszfL" / Twitter
• The labeled this "Career advice" : insanepeoplefacebook
• Alex Cohen on Twitter: "This is my best LinkedIn post to date https://t.co/lfyGEGHuo8" / Twitter
• 👨‍🍳💋 : LinkedInLunatics
• HUTTEN 9-bottle wine rack, solid wood - IKEA
• How hot does a coffee maker hot plate get? | Espresso Expert
• FSIS Cooking Guideline for Meat and Poultry Products (Revised Appendix A) | Food Safety and Inspection Service

338. Precooked Frozen Dino Nuggies Eaten by 2.5 Year Old

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of a 2.5 year old eating precooked dino nuggies while still frozen.

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

• chicken strips | Food Safety News
• Fun Nuggets Dino Nuggets | Tyson® Brand
• Dino-Buddies® (Rivercrest Industries, Inc.) | Dino-Buddies®
• Oral Health in Canada: Health risks of frozen raw breaded chicken products: A local health unit perspective - PMC
• Original Dinosaur-Shaped — Yummy Dino Buddies
• Perdue Panko Breaded Chicken Breast Dino Nuggets - Frozen - 27oz : Target

Note this was recorded before the USDA FSIS announcement:

• USDA Announces Action to Declare Salmonella an Adulterant in Breaded Stuffed Raw Chicken Products | USDA

331. Sucking the Air Out of a Bag of Raw Chicken

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sucking the air out of a bag of raw chicken with your mouth.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Aerosol - Wikipedia
• The straw method for vacuum sealing - General - Anova Community | Food Nerd Forum | Anova Culinary
• Food Safety Talk 79: You’re Into Botulism Country (with Merlin Mann) — Food Safety Talk
• Quantification of Microbial Aerosol Generation during Standard Laboratory Procedures | Applied Biosafety

197. Raw Meat Sashimi

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating raw chicken meat sashimi.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Benjamin Schrager on Twitter: "My paper on raw chicken in Japan just got published!! Risky but Raw: On (Not) Regulating One of the Most High-Risk Dishes in Japan Thank you to @Gastronomica for the smooth process and reviewers for their insightful feedback. https://t.co/2mp9FpESDo" / Twitter
• Risky but Raw | Gastronomica | University of California Press
• Assessment of the dose-response relationship of Campylobacter jejuni - PubMed

107. Slapping a Chicken to Cook It

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of slapping your chicken.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

• Don Schaffner 🦠 on Twitter: "The simulation shows lots of bits of blue flying away, so I'm going to assume that is 63°F chicken flying around your kitchen
• Matt’s Newsletter
• Full article: A review on underwater shockwave processing and its application in food technology
• Physics Major Calculates How Hard You Have To Slap Chicken To Cook It And People React With Hilarious Memes | Bored Panda