Risky or Not?
Don Schaffner and Ben Chapman
A Show About Risk From Microorganisms (Mostly)
- 12 minutes 24 seconds891. Using Fresh Garlic in Sous Vide Cooking
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using fresh garlic in sous vide cooking.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- FDA Fish and Fishery Products Hazards and Controls Guidance Chapter 13
- Conservative prediction of time to Clostridium botulinum toxin formation for use with time-temperature indicators to ensure the safety of foods - PubMed
- Parameters Determining Inoculated Pack Challenge Study
- Why you should never use raw garlic for sous vide cooking
- Sous Vide Short Ribs Recipe (48 hours to tenderness) - DadCooksDinner
- Sous Vide Short Ribs (Boneless Beef) - Two Kooks In The Kitchen&
18 February 2026, 12:00 pm - 8 minutes 9 seconds890. Hairy Bikers Poached Eggs in Dirty Water
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using the Hairy Bikers egg poaching method.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
16 February 2026, 12:00 pm - 14 minutes 11 seconds889. Re-Using Chocolate From a Chocolate Fondue Fountain
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from re-using chocolate from a chocolate fondue fountain.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
13 February 2026, 12:00 pm - 14 minutes 33 seconds888. Using Smell to Determine When a Food Is Safely Cooked
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using smell to determine when a food is safely cooked.
Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️
11 February 2026, 12:00 pm - 8 minutes 18 seconds887. Four Year Expired Beef Jerky From a Safe at the Bottom of the Ocean
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating four year expired beef jerky from a safe at the bottom of the ocean.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
9 February 2026, 12:00 pm - 13 minutes 44 seconds886. Attending a Pickle Party
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from attending a pickle party.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️
6 February 2026, 12:00 pm - 13 minutes 2 seconds885. Snowcream
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from snowcream.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
4 February 2026, 12:00 pm - 15 minutes 45 seconds884. Using a Screen Porch as a Refrigerator in December in Upstate New York
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using a screen porch as a refrigerator in December in upstate New York.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
2 February 2026, 12:00 pm - 12 minutes 48 seconds883. Eggnog in a Plastic Wine Bottle
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eggnog commercially sold in a plastic wine bottle.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️
30 January 2026, 12:00 pm - 11 minutes 37 seconds882. Ice From the Automatic Ice Maker in a Home Freezer
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from a home automatic ice maker ice.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- How clean is your ice machine? Revealing microbial amplification and presence of opportunistic pathogens in hospital ice-water machines - ScienceDirect
- Microbiological quality of packaged ice from various sources in Georgia - PubMed
- Outbreaks in Health Care Settings - PMC
- Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities
28 January 2026, 12:00 pm - 11 minutes 22 seconds881. 40 Year Old Dry Aged Coffee
Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of consuming 40 year old dry aged coffee.
Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼
- Yosemitebear Mountain Double Rainbow 1-8-10 - YouTube
- Double Rainbow (viral video) - Wikipedia
- Risky or Not?
- 310. Really Old Green Coffee Beans — Risky or Not?
- What Is Aged Coffee?
- [TOMT] [Conspiracy Tool] What's it called when you use red string to connect a bunch of pieces of information when trying to unravel a conspiracy? : r/tipofmytongue
- Starbucks Dua Kali: A Bold Reinvention of Sumatra Coffee : Starbucks Stories Asia
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