Hi everyone. Although i havn’t made any posts, i have been browsing this site for a long time and i wanted to say great stuff!!! ummn…i do have a question, currently im on a low carb diet, and in the morning i can be in a rush b/c school, so i tend to make something quick and the last couple of days i have been getting freshly brewed instant coffee and mixing it with raw eggs and drinking it. I know it might sound like a dumb question to some, but will the boiling water in the instant coffee kill the harmful bacteria in the eggs, or will i be at risk of getting food poisining. Any suggestions would be great. thanks in advance.
Searching the net, they suggest temperatures of 140F - 160F will kill Salmonella bacteria.
I’ve also read somewhere else that your body better digests cooked eggs. But I can’t quote anything right now.
Btw, eggs in coffe is pretty f’in hardcore… is it any good?
i have a couple raw eggs every morning with my shake. Ive been doing this for some time now and i havnt had a problem. I did do some research and i looked up what the chances are of getting salmanella(sp) poisioning and the chances are very low, somethin like .005%. (as i knock on wood).
Actually, it’s not bad, just a bit slimy at the end. Then again, thats just my opinion, i’d eat just about anything…
If you put enough schnapps in the coffee it will kill the salmanella.
Your best option is going to bed earlier. You could also try microwaving the eggs, which is pretty quick.
[quote]begginer13 wrote:
Actually, it’s not bad, just a bit slimy at the end. Then again, thats just my opinion, i’d eat just about anything…[/quote]
BACON CHURNER!
While the chance of gettingn sick is over blown it is real and you are gambling. One thing you can do is make sure to wash the heck out of the shell they say much of the chance comes from bacteria on the outside not so much the inside.
I agree on the wake earlier, cook the night prior, use pasturized egg, or heck a protein shake, etc.
Phill
[quote]Phill wrote:
While the chance of gettingn sick is over blown it is real and you are gambling. One thing you can do is make sure to wash the heck out of the shell they say much of the chance comes from bacteria on the outside not so much the inside.
I agree on the wake earlier, cook the night prior, use pasturized egg, or heck a protein shake, etc.
Phill[/quote]
Yeah, the inside of an unbroken egg is sterile.
Any germs or bacteria would be found on the outside of the egg, so if you wash the eggs pretty well, then the chances of getting sick are virtually nil.
[quote]HugeNerd wrote:
Searching the net, they suggest temperatures of 140F - 160F will kill Salmonella bacteria.
I’ve also read somewhere else that your body better digests cooked eggs. But I can’t quote anything right now.
Btw, eggs in coffe is pretty f’in hardcore… is it any good?[/quote]
I heard that your body can digest over ninety something percent when cooked in comparison to forty percent when uncooked.
[quote]Phill wrote:
While the chance of gettingn sick is over blown it is real and you are gambling. One thing you can do is make sure to wash the heck out of the shell they say much of the chance comes from bacteria on the outside not so much the inside.
I agree on the wake earlier, cook the night prior, use pasturized egg, or heck a protein shake, etc.
Phill[/quote]
It only takes ONE time in your life of getting food poisoning to stop gambling with ways that put you at any more risk regardless of the percentage point touted in an article.
It takes all of two minutes to cook eggs. Why do people make such a big deal of this? Get up earlier.
The inside of the egg was once thought of as being a sterile environment but we now know that certain bacteria may be contained inside the shell. The risks of poisoning are very unlikely but present, so like prof x said, cook them, why take a chance it isn’t that hard to do anyways.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Phill wrote:
While the chance of gettingn sick is over blown it is real and you are gambling. One thing you can do is make sure to wash the heck out of the shell they say much of the chance comes from bacteria on the outside not so much the inside.
I agree on the wake earlier, cook the night prior, use pasturized egg, or heck a protein shake, etc.
Phill
It only takes ONE time in your life of getting food poisoning to stop gambling with ways that put you at any more risk regardless of the percentage point touted in an article.
It takes all of two minutes to cook eggs. Why do people make such a big deal of this? Get up earlier. [/quote]
Oh dont get me wrong I have had food poisoning and stuff flying out both ends and am not surfing to get it again. Just giving options.
I personally dont eat the damn thing raw and like you said take the two mins to cook them or have something else.
Phill
[quote]That One Guy wrote:
I heard that your body can digest over ninety something percent when cooked in comparison to forty percent when uncooked.[/quote]
This also depends on the part of the egg. its said the white is better digested more readily available cooked and yolk raw. have em sunnyside up lol best of both worlds.
Phill
I remember reading on a couple of health sites that the best way to eat an egg is to cook the albumen and eat the yolk raw. The reasoning was that the albumen was found to have substances that depleted the vitamin content of the yolk and that heating them was worth denaturing the small amount of protein it has.
Provided what I read is accurate, I can imagine that a boiling cup of coffee might be good for doing that to an extent.
You can buy just whites brand egg whites or some other egg-white-only pasteurized thing.
And drinking egg whites, while making you jacked, will cause you to loose your grasp of the English Language, date quiet pet store owners, and listen to Bill Conti.
In “the east” (Japan, Korea, (China?)) they eat raw eggs a fair amount. they crack the things and put them over rice. I’ve done it, taste is okay. They would be surprised if someone said you might get sick over it.
BUT I have heard that their eggs are treated a bit differently from hen to shop, but I don’t know the veracity of this.
That being said, I wake up a bit earlier and cook my eggs.
[quote]Phill wrote:
That One Guy wrote:
I heard that your body can digest over ninety something percent when cooked in comparison to forty percent when uncooked.
This also depends on the part of the egg. its said the white is better digested more readily available cooked and yolk raw. have em sunnyside up lol best of both worlds.
Phill
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Hell, I didn’t know that. I’ll have to cook 'em sunny side up from time to time.
I’m sure that you did have a source which said that cooked eggs are better digested than raw, else you would not have said it, but it’s such a peculiar possibility that I would have to see the source and how they determined it.
There are foods where softening of fiber in cooking makes the food more digestible. That isn’t a factor at all with eggs.
In contrast, when the whites turn solid this is from denaturing the protein, forming numerous disulfide bridges which make utilization harder not easier.
If that source was wrong, it could be either memory confusion on their part, or alternately, sadly there are some people that have a psychology that when they have an agenda for what is “moral” or right to do in their book, then when they find need to persuade others towards their way, they see nothing wrong with making up “facts” that would nail the case for them.
E.g. someone doesn’t want athletes eating raw eggs and feels it is a moral mission to stop them. How? Let’s tell them that they need to cook it to absorb the nutrients.
This psychology gets even all the way to the top in modern news organizations, e.g. Dan Rather’s Texas Air National Guard Kinko faxes, printed on Microsoft Word, that even after thoroughly being proved as manufactured, he insisted were “fake but accurate.” Hey, they told the story that they needed to tell to shape opinion the way they want.
Anyway, at least at Publix Supermarkets they sell pasteurized eggs. I personally use differing raw eggs as I prefer for the birds to be uncaged. Years ago I had a pasteurization method simply involving a large pot, given amount of water and eggs, and given amount of time.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the nutrition, other than biotin, is better raw. For example, cats will live healthy lives on raw beef or chicken and raw liver but will die on a diet of cooked beef or chicken and liver.
[quote]begginer13 wrote:
Actually, it’s not bad, just a bit slimy at the end. Then again, thats just my opinion, i’d eat just about anything…[/quote]
What is that in your picture? Something with bacon on it?