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Risky or Not?

Risky or Not is a short podcast from Professor Ben Chapman from North Carolina State University, and Dr. Don Schaffner from Rutgers University. Dr. Don and Professor Chapman promise to do their best not to waffle, dither, dissemble or equivocate, and to give straight up answers about whether something is risky or not.

309. Adding Milk to Yogurt to Make More Yogurt

16 mins; June 01, 2022

Two Day Trunk Cheese

8 mins; May 30, 2022

Buffet Corndogs Brought From Home

11 mins; May 27, 2022

Plant Based Deli Meat and Soft Cheeses for a Pregnant Woman

10 mins; May 25, 2022

Uncovered Trash Cans in Women's/Unisex Bathrooms

10 mins; May 23, 2022

Steve's Green Beef Pastrami

8 mins; May 20, 2022

Eight Pounds of Pad Thai Leftovers

13 mins; May 18, 2022

Reheating Food in a Microwave

11 mins; May 16, 2022

"Canning" Without "Cooking"

11 mins; May 13, 2022

Washing Your Toilet Seat in Your Dishwasher

8 mins; May 11, 2022

Rihanna's Ocean Dipped Mangos

9 mins; May 09, 2022

Canadian Airport Toilet Vegetables

16 mins; May 06, 2022

Poultry Cooked to 150 °F (Plus Carryover)

8 mins; May 04, 2022

Pastor Pinkston's Putrid (?) Pork

12 mins; May 02, 2022

Baked Refrigerated Dough After Five Days in the Refrigerator

8 mins; April 29, 2022

Hand Washing Raw Meat Dishes

14 mins; April 27, 2022

Low Volume Lasagna at Olive Garden

12 mins; April 25, 2022

Whole Strawberries at Room Temperature for 24 Hr

16 mins; April 22, 2022

RTE Greens With Dirt in the Package

14 mins; April 20, 2022

Yeeting a Real Fish Into a Crowd

16 mins; April 18, 2022

Last Years Easter Treats at Ben's House

11 mins; April 15, 2022

Really Old Soda

8 mins; April 13, 2022

Rice Used to Dry Out Phone Dropped in Water

8 mins; April 11, 2022

Eating in a Restaurant Built on a Graveyard

9 mins; April 08, 2022

Bringing Your Own Banana

11 mins; April 06, 2022

Dog Kisses

9 mins; April 04, 2022

Infant Formula After a Few Ants Are Removed

9 mins; April 01, 2022

Sage's Steak Cookies

17 mins; March 30, 2022

Unpasteurized Eggs from Neighbor

13 mins; March 28, 2022

Thirty-Three Year Old Baseball Card Gum

11 mins; March 25, 2022

Letting a 20 Month Old Try Kombucha

17 mins; March 23, 2022

Unprocessed, Unrefrigerated Apple Butter

9 mins; March 21, 2022

Chicken Taco in a Backpack for a Day and a Half

8 mins; March 18, 2022

Cold-Soaked Freeze-Dried Backpacking Food

16 mins; March 16, 2022

Cooking While COVID-19 Positive

7 mins; March 14, 2022

COVID-19 and Revolving Doors

15 mins; March 11, 2022

Cooking With Himalayan Soup Salter on a Rope

11 mins; March 09, 2022

Thirteen Year Old Tapioca Flour

12 mins; March 07, 2022

Salt Rising Bread

11 mins; March 04, 2022

Rice, Chicken, and Lo Mein Leftovers

15 mins; March 02, 2022

Cat Licked Cake

9 mins; February 28, 2022

Old Outbreak Peanut Butter

14 mins; February 25, 2022

Single Mouse Turd Near the Guacamole Ingredients

13 mins; February 23, 2022

Linda's Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes

15 mins; February 21, 2022

Sewer Shrimp

11 mins; February 18, 2022

Kapchunka

13 mins; February 16, 2022

Eating Foods Labeled as "Made in a Facility" With a Food To Which You're Allergic

13 mins; February 14, 2022

Justin's Leftover Steak, Cooked on the Use-By Date and Eaten Two Days Later

10 mins; February 11, 2022

Sam's Plowed Snow and Ice

13 mins; February 09, 2022

Wegmans Cook in a Bag Meal Cooked in a Slow Cooker

16 mins; February 07, 2022

Eating a Food or at a Restaurant Again, After (You Think) It Made You Sick

16 mins; February 04, 2022

Re-Using Boxed Fish Fry Stored at Room Temperature

10 mins; February 02, 2022

Sous Vide Brisket for One Month at 131 °F

8 mins; January 31, 2022

Sniffing Milk Instead Using Expiration Dates

10 mins; January 28, 2022

Lining Wooden Beer Casks With Pine Pitch in Czech Tradition

11 mins; January 26, 2022

Do It Yourself Pizza Oven

9 mins; January 24, 2022

Scott's Ambiguously Sealed Mincemeat

14 mins; January 21, 2022

Taste the TV

9 mins; January 19, 2022

Aaron's Black Eyed Peas

10 mins; January 17, 2022

Pasta With Sauce and Turkey Left Out Overnight

9 mins; January 14, 2022

Bringing Frozen Unrefrigerated Peameal Bacon Across the Border

12 mins; January 12, 2022

Eating Raw Bacon

11 mins; January 10, 2022

Feeding Breadcrumbs Older Than Your Kid to Your Kid

17 mins; January 07, 2022

Re-Using Plastic Bags

19 mins; January 05, 2022

Licking an Ice Sculpture

9 mins; January 03, 2022

Food Out of Temperature Control for 6 Hours

12 mins; December 31, 2021

Unrefrigerated Baileys Irish Cream After 6 Months

10 mins; December 29, 2021

Brushing Teeth With Well Water

17 mins; December 27, 2021

Unrefrigerated Pesto

11 mins; December 24, 2021

"Lightly" Pasteurized OJ Left at Room Temp for 24 Hours

11 mins; December 22, 2021

Turkey Meatballs From Jimmy Kimmels Steps

13 mins; December 20, 2021

Raw Egg Eggnog Refrigerated for 6 Months

17 mins; December 17, 2021

My Twinkie Smells Like Poop

12 mins; December 15, 2021

Eating 2,400 Year Old Soup

12 mins; December 13, 2021

Unheated Instant Hot Cocoa Powder

10 mins; December 10, 2021

Salmon at 43 °F for 15 Hours

11 mins; December 08, 2021

100 Hour Lasagna

10 mins; December 06, 2021

S'mores Cooked on Pallet Wood

12 mins; December 03, 2021

Eating Produce Stickers

13 mins; December 03, 2021

Un-cleanable Salad Spinners

12 mins; November 29, 2021

Giving a Raw Turkey to a 13 Year Old

16 mins; November 26, 2021

Trice Reheated Poultry

10 mins; November 24, 2021

Open Turkey Bacon a Few Weeks After It's Best by Date

11 mins; November 22, 2021

Putting Hot Food in the Fridge With a Lid

16 mins; November 19, 2021

Common Cold and a Breakfast Casserole

13 mins; November 17, 2021

Dry Canning Ground Beef

15 mins; November 15, 2021

Reprocessed Under Processed Potatoes Held at Room Temperature for 24 Hours

16 mins; November 12, 2021

Punishing a Food Server for Calling in Sick With a Serious Infection

11 mins; November 10, 2021

Frozen Food From 1972

8 mins; November 08, 2021

Eating Carrot Top Pesto

9 mins; November 05, 2021

Take Out Omelette With "Pepper"

14 mins; November 03, 2021

Returning Food Trucks to Use After Holding COVID-19 Bodies

9 mins; November 01, 2021

Homemade Treats From Neighbors

14 mins; October 29, 2021

Cockroach Footprints on Packaging Cleaned With Soap

11 mins; October 27, 2021

Cross-Contamination From Plant Based Meat

19 mins; October 25, 2021

Having a Romantic Flour Fight

10 mins; October 22, 2021

Eating on an Active Fishing Pier

12 mins; October 20, 2021

Food With a Bite Out of It

12 mins; October 18, 2021

Kinder Surprise Eggs

14 mins; October 15, 2021

Air cooled hard boiled eggs at room temperature

8 mins; October 13, 2021

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