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These days, many people avoid anything made with raw eggs for fear that the eggs are contaminated and could cause illness. But if you've sourced great farm-fresh ones and are confident about their quality, you can still enjoy dishes that benefit from the richness and texture that eggs impart when they're left uncooked.
For instance, some condiments—like a classic Caesar salad dressing, or mayonnaise and its garlicky cousin, aioli—rely on the emulsifying properties of raw yolks for their creamy consistency and fresh flavor, which makes them superior to the commercial versions.
Or, incorporated quickly into hot grains, eggs add a luscious texture. A dish that evokes childhood memories for BigSal is tamago gohan, or raw egg mixed with soy sauce and stirred into hot white rice. It's "Japanese comfort food," she says.
Raw eggs are also a key ingredient in some traditional beverages. A Ramos gin fizz, which gets its frothiness from a well-shaken egg white, is "delicious," says porker. There's also real, homemade eggnog, which, it turns out, many hounds really love.
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This is really bad information. Raw eggs from a small farm are no safer than raw eggs from a large commercial manufacturer, regardless of how fresh they are. In fact, because small farms can't maintain the same cleanliness and testing standards they may actually be less safe. If you are willing to risk the infection (I am) then eat eggs any way you want but if your immune system is compromised...+READ
This is really bad information. Raw eggs from a small farm are no safer than raw eggs from a large commercial manufacturer, regardless of how fresh they are. In fact, because small farms can't maintain the same cleanliness and testing standards they may actually be less safe. If you are willing to risk the infection (I am) then eat eggs any way you want but if your immune system is compromised you need to be careful. If you just can't live without raw eggs but would like to reduce your risk you can buy pasteurized eggs in their shell.
This from the CDC:
Most types of Salmonella live in the intestinal tracts of animals and birds and are transmitted to humans when feces from animals directly or indirectly contaminate foods that humans eat. For example, if chicken feces get on the outside of the shell of eggs, Salmonella in the feces can contaminate the egg through cracks in the shell. This used to be a common problem. However, stringent procedures for cleaning and inspecting eggs were implemented in the 1970s and have made illness from Salmonella caused by chicken feces on the outside of egg shells extremely rare. However, unlike Salmonella infections from eggs in past decades, the epidemic that started in the 1980s and continues to cause illnesses today is due to SE being inside of intact grade A eggs with clean shells. The reason is that SE can silently infect the ovaries of healthy appearing hens and contaminate the inside of eggs before the shells are formed.
SE infection is present in hens in most areas in the United States. An estimated one in 20,000 eggs is internally contaminated. Only a small number of hens might be infected at any given time, and an infected hen can lay many normal eggs while only occasionally laying eggs contaminated with SE.-COLLAPSE