eli5: How is raw egg dangerous to eat (in America at least) but runny egg yolk is perfectly fine?

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eli5: How is raw egg dangerous to eat (in America at least) but runny egg yolk is perfectly fine?

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Answer 1

Fresh raw eggs are pretty safe to eat, and I eat them fairly often.

But also, hardening of the yolk and the killing of bacteria are seperate processes. They are both processed caused by the denaturing of proteins at high temperatures, but they don’t impact one another at all.