Very few foods in life are worth food poisoning to me, so I just don’t risk it.

The kids like the end product but not keen on beaters.

Thanks for posting – so glad I haven’t done the wrong thing.

Salmonella is a risk because egg shells are porous and germs such as it can penetrate theough the shell into the contents.
Some children are allergic to eggs. It can trigger hayfever(I definitely know of one case) or asthma in some. Some will actual vomit after eating custard with eggs in it. A friend of mine has a little boy who is allergic to the egg yolk.
We used tofight over who turn it was to lick the spoon from homemade custard and attempt to salvage the remnants from the bottom of the saucepan. Also the beaters from homemade icecream (that didn’t have eggs in it)

Oh gross, who would want to feed their kids raw eggs anyway? My kids don’t even like raw cookie dough or cake mix

This was an interesting mini article. Thanks for posting!

I read in a medical guide that because egg shells are porous, eating raw eggs can cause salmonella poisoning and other problems. If your child has asthma or hayfever there is a higher chance of allergic reaction.

Nothing is going to stop me licking the beaters!

My kids LOVE licking the spoon but I get there’s potential for harm with raw eggs. Potentially because of the hormones injected into chickens these days….

Its good to read this, so many things to be uncertain about. Particularly raw egg.

I still do it……and my sister used to eat raw eggs, straight from the fridge. We never got sick. If my daughter want to lick the beater I think I will be fine with that.

I’m one of those mums that doesn’t let my child ick the beaters. Even though I did it as a kid and survived.
Thank you so much for this information, I’m going to bake a cake tomorrow and let my daughter lick the beaters. Thank you

As a child and older and with my children we always licked the beaters when cooking cakes and biscuits or making home made ice cream and we never had any illness from it – my husband still likes to lick the beaters if he gets the chance.

One of my greatest childhood memories is mum calling me into the kitchen when she was baking and then letting me lick the beaters….yum!!! As an adult I still lick the beaters and as a 34 year old have never been sick from licking the beaters.

Each to their own….mine never have then raw.

This is so sad, one of my childhood memories is fighting with my sisters over who got to lick the beaters when mum was baking, fortunately in Australia we are unlikely to get salmonella with the fresh eggs we use in our baking, this recommendation has mainly come from USA, and the instructions that they are forced to put on cake mix boxes etc re eating raw egg, but they have a lot more problems with salmonella in eggs than in Australia. I still taste my cake batter and will continue to, however it goes without saying, NEVER use any egg that has any crack in it no matter how tiny, as this is where the salmonella gets in. clean refrigerated eggs without cracks are likely to be fine. enjoy your baking

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  • • mom94125 replied
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  oh yeah don’t use cracked eggs for sure.

HUGE NONO in my house
allergy to Egg whites
even my other children DONT have it

Like anything it is all about personally weighing up risks.
You are probably more likely to be in a car accident that causes an injury than to get salmonella from eating fresh raw egg yolk.
So for that reason – my kid will get to lick the bowl!

my 2 year old daughter got eggs out of the fridge one day and started eating them raw. She thought it was great but i stressed! All turned out fine ,apparently it is very good for your system .

We grew up with egg flips and as a nurse we served raw egg on weetbix to our baby patients. Then again, I have never been tempted to feed egg raw to my own kids.