And Another Thing - Homemade Egg Nog

[NashVegas]

Oh my goodness.

Never made this before, but Alton Brown inspired me.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_32424,00.html


Oh. Goodness. I used the 'raw' version, with pasteurized eggs.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. I gave up on eggnog

the day I came home late that Saturday afternoon when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and Mom had fixed eggnog. What a nice surprise on that cold winter day!

Mom wasn't all that great a cook, and really got bored with recipes.

She skipped the part about beating the eggs, and didn't bother with the cooking business, either.

That's when I gave up on eggnog.

[NashVegas]

3. Oh That's Just Sad

You should try this, it took all of about 10 minutes to make.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

2. one of our stores used to carry the pasteurized eggs,

but they quit. grrrrrr. I'm now stuck with lots of favorite recipes & no way to make them. double grrrrr

[NashVegas]

4. I Got These At a Harris Teeter

I think. That or Publix.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

5. It's easy to do at home

We first did it back in the eighties, for our Caesar salad. I can't remember exactly how we did it, but it involved the eggs in a low oven for a certain amount of time, and it worked just perfectly.

Now, there are microwaves:

http://www.melindalee.com/hardboileggs.html

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

6. is that safe?

as many here know, i got salmonella poisoning once & never, ever, ever, ever again.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

7. I know the feeling

I got it, too. Once is too much.

But, yeah, we never had any problem with using raw eggs in anything with our home pasteurization. As I recall, there was information on how to do - 'way back then - in a pamphlet we got from the FDA.

If you're at all hesitant about it, don't do it.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Pshaw ..... food poisoning is no biggie

Well .... actually, it is. It can even kill. But back in my school days, food poisoning was de rigeur. Lots of e coli and sal. Intestinal cramps were as common as morning coffee and undone mise en place. One builds a tolerance .... but one also grows more cutious. That's why a spray bottle of bleach and a pump bottle of hand sanitizer live on our counter.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

9. Ah, the young are immortal (at least in their heads)

I got food poisoning from a hot dog I ate at a hangout when I was in high school. It was called the "L&D," which, we were all pretty sure, stood for "Local & DIrty." Or "Local Dump."

So, after a long stretch of worshipping the porcelain altar, I was pretty much unconscious for a couple of days. Then, healthy again, back to school.

Yep, I had another hot dog not long after, and, yep, it happened all again.

I was blessed with a father who, while holding my head over the toilet, said maybe the funniest thing anyone's ever said to me. Try barfing and laughing at the same time.

A few months ago, we had a turkey dinner at a friend's house. All four of us puked the night away. Don't you just love contaminated poultry? I sure do.

We keep a spray bottle of white vinegar, H2S, and a big dispenser of hand soap, right there at the sink. And each cutting board has a different purpose.

Ah, The Beaver ...............

[linazelle]

12. I got food poisoning from hot dogs, too...I've had it at least

10 times. NOT a good thing. I cook at home more often now--I used to eat out daily.

[Lorax]

10. I don't think eggs are as a big of a problem as other things

Both times I've had food poisoning was from eating lunch meat turkey. I rarely eat land animals anymore, but on the few occasions I do you can bet it won't be lunch meat turkey. Blech! However, I've made caesar salad with raw eggs many times and never had a problem.

My Joy of Cooking says you can coddle the eggs by gently boiling for 2 minutes but I never bother.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

11. I had read that only 1 in a 100 eggs is infected with

salmonella, while 80 percent of chicken is. When chickens are slaughtered they're put in a communal bath. So, I never worried about raw eggs. Well, that 100th raw egg I ate got me. It was in homemade ice cream & I wasn't careful to get the creme agnlaise up to whatever temp it was supposed to be.

Others can talk about how it's no big deal, but I'll tell you that first I was afraid I was going to die & then I was afaid I wasn't going to die.