Could you get sick from the raw egg in eggnog?

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

I want to make eggnog but I am a little nervous as the recipe calls for raw eggs. Is it possible that raw eggs in eggnog could make you sick?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Fred's Hens]

There is always that risk. The government makes all cafe's and eateries put a warning against the eating of raw eggs and rare meat on the menu, so I'd say yes. That doesn't stop folks for doing so, of course. It all about the risk one wishes to take, I guess.

 

[GoldenSparrow]

thats funny, I never thought of that? strange

 

[ChickiKat]

Ya know, I saw a recipe the other day that was uncooked with egg in it and I wondered the same thing. Even though I know where my girls have been and what they have been doing, I don't want to eat raw eggs. You know that where the egg comes from is the same duct that the other comes from.... OK

 

[Imp]

The risk would be very small, but possible.

I'm assuming you want to use your own eggs.
You can reduce that risk even more by coddling the eggs. Bring water to boiling, take off heat, immerse room temperature eggs in boiled water for 1 minute. Remove and put in a ice water bath to stop the cooking process.

You can eliminate the risk almost completely by using pasteurized eggs.

Imp

 

[bigmike&nan]

Pretty much what Imp said, coddle those eggs - just like you would if you wanted to be sure you were making a food safe mayonnaise or Caesar's Salad Dressing from scratch. Coddling the eggs will NOT change the way the eggs look or break down in the recipe. Better to be FOOD SAFE than sorry...


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[Oregon Blues]

You can purchase pasturized raw egg and use that. Or you can always make a cooked custard type of eggnog.

I use my home grown eggs raw, just wash the outside of the shell carefully before cracking the egg. I'm willing to take a little risk as long as I know where the eggs came from. But yes, there is some risk.

I sample the raw cookie dough and raw cake batter, too, and there is raw egg in that.

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

Yes, I will be using my eggs from my chickens. Thank you all so very much! I have never heard of coddling eggs. I will definitaly be doing that for both eggnog as well as mayonaise!

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

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Sigh... I just tried to coddle some eggs--didn't work. I brought the water to a boil, plopped my egg in the water immediatley took the pan off the burner and waited for 1 minute. When the minute was up, I ran the egg under cold water. After that, I cracked open the egg and it had bits of cooked/hard boiled egg in it. And the shell of the egg had a thick layer of cooked/hard boiled egg in it. So then I did the same thing but this time only did it for 45 seconds... still had bits of hard boiled egg in it.

So after many failed attempts the chickens and dogs are now having some hard boiled egg with their dinner.

Do you know where I may have gone wrong?

 

[KenK]

To quote my late and favorite uncle: "eggnog is a waste of good drinking liquor".

I apologize to all the eggnog aficionados. : )