eli5: why can’t we eat cookie dough because it’s got raw egg in it, but athletes eat straight raw egg and they’re fine?

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eli5: why can’t we eat cookie dough because it’s got raw egg in it, but athletes eat straight raw egg and they’re fine?

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You can totally eat raw cookie dough. My mom used to make the dough and just not bake eat. We just eat the dough little by little over a few days. For years I never made it the baking stage. We even had a kids cookbook that suggested not baking the dough. Never got one got sick from it.