Ice cream with egg in it.

[rollerbaby]

I've just bought 5 homemade pots and noticed it has egg in it.

Husband says no. I think, I want it.

What would you do?

My mum makes her own ice cream and it has egg in it - tastes amazing! I'd eat it

If you're pregnant, I wouldn't risk it.

Well, in fact I myself would never risk it. But advice is for pregnant women to be almost as careful as I always am (emetophobe).

I wouldn't worry about it - I'm pregnant atm. Eggs are pretty safe these days - chickens are vaccinated against salmonella, and the lion mark on the eggs means the eggs are safe.

The egg in ice cream is to thicken the mixture before freezing, i.e. ice cream is frozen custard.

For the custard to thicken, the eggs have to cook, so they are cooked eggs.

You can eat cooked eggs in pregnancy.

The egg in the ice cream will be pasteurized liquid egg, so there's no need to worry from a safety perspective. Saying that how many of us lick spooons etc when we are making cakes. Me, definitely and I let my dcs too - bloody awful parent actually.

As sloanypony said, you have to heat cream, milk and eggs in a pan stirring like a fiend so they don't scramble before freezing. Frozen custard [drools] I'm also pregnant and YABU for putting the idea of my mum's ice cream in my head!

YYYYYYEEEESSSSSSSS!!!

Off to scoff!

You can eat RAW eggs if they're lion-stamped. Either they're lion-stamped or they're not, non? Cooking makes no odds! Stop spreading bollocks.

This is the best ice cream I've ever had. Cheers my dears. The internet is a wonderful thing.

Who is spreading bollocks?

the lion stamping shows the hens are vaccinated against salmonella, and therefore the eggs are free from it. I think it is a requirement for supermarkets etc to use lion-stamped eggs.

We use eggs from our own chickens which I know are vaccinated, and therefore safe.

It wouldn't be raw egg - ice cream is made by starting with a cooked egg custard.

methinks your husband wanted the ice cream if it was that nice and saw an opportunity to get it all for himself

"ice cream is made by starting with a cooked egg custard."

just splitting hairs (since it'll generally be made with eggs from vaccinated hens in this country anyway) but ice cream can either be made with a custard base or a mousse base and a mousse base might include raw eggs.

If its homemade, make sure whoever made it for you didn't use their own chicken's eggs if you see what i mean - otherwise i'd say its ok (if they were lion stamped).

Is it definitely ice cream not semi-fredo? I have the most gorgeous recipe for semi fredo which is easy peasy but unfortunately contains raw eggs (will definitely be making some once baby's here!)

if the egg is cooked as most have said here, it doesn't matter if it's lion stamped or not.

it's the cooking that kills the nasties.
that's why they say don't eat raw eggs.

pasteurised it has to be heated to 54 degrees which kills most nasites, but custard will have been heated higher than that.

if they are home-laid eggs they may well be from vaccinated hens - mine are.

Mine too.

Surely the main risk with any icecream would be listeriosis. I wouldn't be too worried about the eggs tbh.

I thought listeriosis was only a risk with the Mr Whippy sort of ice-cream you get from machines, which are hard to keep spotlessly clean.

• which isn't to say that pregnant women shouldn't eat icecream. That would be madness

EmmaBemma you're right. Although I'd be wary of eating any from somewhere looked like they didn't sanitise their scoops etc. Icecream is pretty nortorious for causing food poisoning - but I seriously doubt that the OP's homemade stuff was anything to worry about.

I am pregnant and I had a Mr Whippy last week

Whoops.