Raw Eggs, Anyone else do this?

[BusyBlonde]

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We grew up the same way. Six kids, no one sick all the time, never went to the hospital for anything, very healthy. I see parents now who won't let their kids touch anything without putting on the hand sanitizer before & after, kids spend no time outdoors, can't have pets because they have dander, can't eat/drink certain things because they 'may' be sensitive ... WOW. I think people are making kids into targets for all the bad things out there by not letting them develop any immunities or anti-bodies. Today, we put 16 chicks in the brooder that we just hatched. We took our 7-month old grandson down to see them, and let him pet one. My son-in-law was very concerned that we made sure we washed/sanitized his hands after he touched a day-old chick. Really? I think we put worse things in our mouths at that age way back when, LOL. And no one thought anything about it. Mostly we grew up fine -

 

[Davian]

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Sugar does act in that manner and it used to be standard to use in wound poltices because of that antiseptic property.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

Yup, the eggs are from our chickens and the kids have eaten worse things.

 

[runsw/scissors]

I let my son (he's 4) lick the beaters when I'm baking anytime he wants to... Although I did wait until he was 2 before i let him... din't want him to choke on the beaters lol!

His father has a cow if I let him drink from the hose.

Makes no sense to me!

 

[Royd]

I make mayonaise and eggnog, without pastuerization, so yeah.

 

[Abirdbrain]

It is true, that a LITTLE sugar is a culture that make microbes grow. An ancient Berber recipe for eggs on a long Sea voyage was sugar inrendered butter to cover cooked boiled eggs. Nothing of this was wasted as the sugared butter was spead over died bread and the eggs were consumed along the way.

I know clean freaks, but if you understand, even clean chickens have eggs out their poop chute, maybe you should think twice about eating eggs at all. Ok, I wash all my eggs, mild dishsoap, with a hint of bleach, and then fridge. They are usually clean from the nests anyway, but a few yard eggs have mud marks, that scrub off.

I ate a ton of batter from the bowl, and getting the spoon was a treat, way before the baked things were ready. Yum! I am nearly 60, and mostly healthier than most of my peers.

 

[Davian]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down...chickens POOP eggs? I thought they made them in a sanitary factory hidden in the coop!?!

 

[M.sue]

Busy Blonde....I agree. Hospitals use to have hand sanitizers in patient rooms, halls, offices, waiting room, every corner you turned there was one. Then all of a sudden they were removing a lot of them because just for the fact you stated.....the staff was not able to build a tolerance and the germs were building an immunity.

 

[conny63malies]

I survied raw eggs, raw milk, raw meat, raw fish..... in germany you could actually Bratwaurs Gehaeck for wating on open faced sandwich. Gehaeck is a lot like bratwurst filling. In school we actually made desert containing raw egg!!!!

 

[Stacykins]

When I was a lot younger, six or seven, licking a batter spoon sent me to the hospital with salmonellosis. I was hospitalized for four days. The vomiting and diarrhea was so severe that I became dangerously dehydrated. My mom remembers that was the one time I didn't fight when I got stuck with an needle for an IV, I was so sick. *shudders* I still have memories of that. It was awful. This wasn't just a case of the 'stomach flu' blown out of proportion, it was acute and severe.