Spin off: Who still lets their kids lick the beater?

[Anonymous]

Of course! I didn't know this was a controversial thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ very unclassy

Kids don't need to be classy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never. Salmonella is in most eggs - even pasture raised organic ones! In an ER doctor and have seen a ton of salmonella diarrhea and just enough cases of salmonella blood infections and complications to freak me out about letting my kids do this....

Source?

Hardly "most."

How often does an egg contain Salmonella?
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 10,000 eggs contain Salmonella. If you consider most egg dishes are made with at least 2 eggs, that's 1 in 5,000 egg dishes that potentially contain Salmonella. Of course, this is a national average. As demonstrated by the 2010 egg recall, the risk could be higher in eggs that come from flocks and farms that are contaminated with Salmonella.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another post made me think of this -

Do parents, besides me, still let their kids lick the beater/spoon after mixing cake batter or brownies?

I buy open pasture eggs from a local family however they are not certified organic.

I guess I'm wondering if I'm really weird and putting my kids at more than normal risk.

Yes, this is what is meant when I ask if they want to 'help bake.'

'Who will help cook by licking this spoon? How will we get this bowl clean. Can you help with this? Oh thank you!'

[Anonymous]

Each kid gets a beater and I get the bowl. That's the best park of baking anything.

[Anonymous]

Yes, reluctantly because I like to lick them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Each kid gets a beater and I get the bowl. That's the best park of baking anything.

Yup

[Anonymous]

My mom used to put raw eggs in our carnation instant breakfast. So yeah....a little raw egg on the beater is fine with me.

[Anonymous]

Yes!

[Anonymous]

I did wait until my kids were about two though before I let them eat anything with raw egg.

I waited about that long as well. Then I did many google searches for any recent cases of salmonella and cookie dough. I found two - both traced the contaminants back to the dry ingredients (?!). After that I was like, whatever, I'm not going to ban my child from flour!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who doesn't?

My uptight DIL. So my grandkids are TERRIFIED of cookie dough.

So I get to lick it all. Still waiting to get sick, and I'm 70.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I totally do. Only with grocery store eggs though, not the yard chicken eggs we get from a friend. Not sure how much difference there is in the risk, but I feel better about it with grocery store eggs.

[Anonymous]

Yup, all the time.

[Anonymous]

Um yeah! I would never deny my kids the pleasure that is licking the batter off the spoon. That, my friends, is one of life's great simple joys!

[Anonymous]

We're vegan so yes.