do you let your kids 'lick the bowl'????

[auburnmum]

Have always let my kids (4 and 2) lick the bowl after making cakes, etc. Yeah, I know it has raw eggs in it, but it's just soooo yummy amd never did me any harm. My friend completely flipped out yesterday when her 3 yr old ate some home-made cookie dough round my house when we were making biscuits. Is this reasonable? What do you do???

My 2 always lick the bowl.

We made chocolate muffins the other day and by the time we'd finished DS (2) had a chocolate goatee beard .

Yes, I just discovered that and I've been on here a month!!

She'd rip my head off if I tried to stop her (I am not NORMALLY dictated to by my 3yo, but she has inherited the Passionate Devotion To Chocolate gene from her father, you see). She IS a PFB, but I'm normally way too lazy to act on the fact.

Made cakes today and ds licked the bowl and the mixers and the spoons.. I even tried some yummy..

Absolutely. Although DS is more often my baking companion than the girls. he doesn't seem too bothered about it.

always let her, even the xmas cake with brandy in it

DH disapproves, and tends not to eat anything with raw egg in it.

Helpfully, I make my own ice cream which has raw egg in it. He spends quite a bit of energy convincing himself that freezing is the same as cooking .

I do let the kids lick the bowls. Eggs are always good quality, anyway.

NQC

I once made a cake with my little brother and we ate the whole lot raw. I was about seven, he was three, and we lived (after feeling slightly sick) perfectly well to tell the tale.

You lot are making me hungry, I'm going to bed.

You see your dp is not only swoonfully tall but he is SO smart as well

that is exactly right, freezing egg is JUST the same as cooking it

yup
best part of baking!

Are you maybe feverish from some sort of disease you get from not eating raw egg?

(Not all homemade ice cream has egg in it - but the semi-freddo stuff that you don't have to stir, which is what I make, does. Do you guys have an ice cream maker?)

I gave me and ds , then aged 4 salmonella after licking bowl when making cake. Holding his frail little body in my arms at the doctor after days of vomiting will stay with me forever. Please only do it if eggs are stamped. I lost a stone in 3 days, have never been so ill and wouldn't wish it on anyone.
I am normally the least precious person so don't ignore me as mad person, just make sure your eggs are salmonella free. Mine were farm fresh ones from local butcher.

Seems reasonable to me. I mean if she's worried about it she's worried about it. Lots of people have worries about things and these may be reasonable or they may be irrational, and quite often they are deemed reasonable or irrational by some persons subjective view.

how awful, robinpud.
it is difficult to assess the level of risk, really. I feel inclined to take the risk, but would probably change if anyone I know got salmonella. Illogical, I know. I am not sure how to tell if eggs are likely to have salmonella or not actually?
I am in Germany, so could be different from the UK.

Didn't know that about the eggs and the stamp. Mind you I buy organic eggs froma friend so they're not stamped.

How awful robinpud

I was buying farm eggs from a local butcher and then because I bake a lot, keeping them out of the fridge. Yes, we were unlucky and up until that point I would have posted exactly the same way as all the other blase posters.. but watching your child be so ill for such a long time soon changes your mind.
Better safe than sorry.
So buy eggs with a lion stamp and keep them in the fridge.

Lololol at Greensleeves!