bearisgray

On a bag of Gold Medal unbleached all purpose flour:

"Cook before sneaking a taste
Flour is raw
Please cook fully before enjoying"


It was in all capitals on the top of the bag so it would be almost impossible to miss that while opening the bag.

cashs_mom

It the sue-happy world we live in. Everything has a caution. I bought some new kitchen knives the other day. When I was got home, I noticed that the package said "Caution: Has sharp edges" I thought "Well, I certainly hope so"

Doggramma

Well, don't you want to just say "well...duh." But what about if it was in cookie dough and you ate it. I guess that would be your own fault then if you got sick. Patrice is right. It's because everyone is so sue happy. Sad times when no one wants to take respinsibility anymore for their own choices.

EasyPeezy

Some flour got recalled in Canada because of E. Coli. Quite a few people got
sick. I'm not surprised to see this on all bags of flour. Hard to make a chocolate
cake without tasting that yummy batter.

cathyvv

It is possible to get pneumonia from inhaling the flour in powder form. And I guess just about any bacteria can survive in the flour. Personally, I don't have a taste for dry flour.

QuiltE

It's not the dry flour that is the concern, but the raw/uncooked flour.

When "enjoying" cookie dough or cake batter, you are eating it raw,
and as EasyPeezy mentioned if bacteria is there, you are ingesting it ...
... and could be risking your health!

Thus, no matter how good it may taste ... always better to wait until it is baked!

lynnie

very interesting, good reading about flour

bearisgray

I have never - ever - been interested in eating raw cooky dough or raw cake batter.

I have always been leery about the use of raw eggs in uncooked frosting, too.

ptquilts

I used to like raw cookie dough and cake batter til I read about how flour is made. Huge piles of wheat in warehouses/silos. naturally there are mice - mice pee and poo on wheat, wheat gets made into flour, at no time in the process is it sterilized. No thank you.

willferg

I have always loved - and eaten - raw cookie dough and raw cake batter, and I've never been sick from it. Guess I've built up an immunity