Don Schaffner and Ben Chapman

Risky or Not?

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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.

Author

Don Schaffner and Ben Chapman

Category

Science

Podcast website

riskyornot.co

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

51: Linda's Hot Beets 07.10.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of holding unrefrigerated processed beets in your car for 5 hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Love Beets - Healthy Organic Beets, Beet Juice and Beet Powders 100% Organic Cooked Beets | Love Beets Batavia, New York - Wikipedia Geneseo, New York - Wikipedia Botulism from Home-Canned Beets. Botulism from Home-Canned Beets Ou...

50: Reusing Wood in the Kitchen 05.10.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing wood in the kitchen. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Fast Facts About Cutting Boards and Food Safety in Your Kitchen | NC State News Which is Safer? Wood vs. Plastic Cutting Boards | Homegrown | NC State University Bacterial Adherence and Viability on Cutting Board Surfaces

49: Reusing Dirty Baby Bibs 02.10.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of reusing dirty baby bibs within 4 hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Cronobacter species (formerly known as Enterobacter sakazakii) in powdered infant formula: a review of our current understanding of the biology of this bacterium - Yan - 2012 - Journal of Applied Microbiology - Wiley Online Library The human milk microbi...

48: John's Old Refrigerated Fried Rice 30.09.2020

48: John's Old Refrigerated Fried Rice Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating fried rice refrigerated for a long time. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 john roderick on Twitter: "I just ate a bunch of fried rice "…" Relationship Between the Heat Resistance of Spores and the Optimum and Maximum Growth Temperatures of Bacillus Species. Food Standards Austra...

47: Peanut Butter Fingering 27.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of double dipping a finger into your peanut butter. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Ted Lasso - Wikipedia Effect of Biting Before Dipping (Double‐Dipping) Chips on the Bacterial Population of the Dipping Solution

46: Honey Fermented Garlic 25.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from honey fermented garlic. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Honey Fermented Garlic: A Natural Remedy for Cold and Flu | Yang's Nourishing Kitchen Current Food Safety Issues of Home-prepared Vegetables and Herbs Stored in Oil Honey - Wikipedia pH and Acids in Honey Welcome to the Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program

45: Masked Waiters Touching Your Plate 23.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of masked waiters touching your plate. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 The Lincoln Project on Twitter: "VOTER: Why can't we have a national mask mandate? TRUMP: Waiters. https://t.co/ivrYbewk0d" / Twitter Considerations for Restaurants and Bars | COVID-19 | CDC Community and Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 Amon...

44: Salt Cured Egg Yolks 21.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating salt cured egg yolks. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Cured Egg Yolks Recipe | Bon Appetit Salt Cured Egg Yolks Effect of sublethal heat stress on Salmonella Typhimurium virulence "salt cured" egg yolk - Google Scholar Evaluating the Risk of Contracting Salmonellosis from Egg Yolk 'Parmesan'Based on Water Activity

43: Masks on the Table 18.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of leaving ones facemask on the table in times of COVID-19. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ (3) Brian #SlowtheSpread Sauders, PhD 🛒🔬🦠🧫🧬☣️😷 on Twitter: "@bugcounter @tvaziri @benjaminchapman How about taking your mask off in a meeting and putting it on the conference room table; then putting it back on when you leave the meeting? Simi...

42: Reboiling Soup 16.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating reboiled soup stored at room temperature. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Daring Fireball: Jason Kottke on Dean Allen Food Safety Talk 144: They Look and Taste Like Green Turds — Food Safety Talk Bending the Rules on Bacteria and Food Safety - The New York Times Tyndallization - Wikipedia

41: Butter at Room Temperature 14.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of storing butter at room temperature Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Exposure of Listeria monocytogenes within an epidemic caused by butter in Finland - ScienceDirect Viability of Pathogenic Organisms in Butter. Applied Dairy Microbiology, Second Edition - Google Books Can You Leave Butter Out? Food Safety During Power Outage...

40: Refrozen Butter 11.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of refreezing butter. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Which Foods Can be Refrozen and Which Can't - UGA The Big Thaw

39: Chapman's Backyard Poultry 09.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of Ben's backyard (and front yard) poultry flock. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Backyard Poultry Flocks and Salmonellosis: A Recurring, Yet Preventable Public Health Challenge | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Salmonella Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices: A Survey of Backyard Poultry Owners Residing in Seattle, Wash...

38: Black Coffee at Room Temperature 07.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of holding black coffee at room temperature all day. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Antibacterial activity of tea (Camellia sinensis) and coffee (Coffee arabica) with special reference to Salmonella typhimurium. - Abstract - Europe PMC Antibacterial Activity of Coffee Extracts and Selected Coffee Chemical Compounds against Ent...

37: Tea at Room Temperature 04.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making or holding tea at room temperature. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Genmaicha - Wikipedia What You Should Know Before Sipping Your Next Batch of Sun Tea, According to a Food Microbiologist | News Break Health Relevance of the Presence of Fecal Coliforms in Iced Tea and Leaf Tea Herbal Tea recalled in Canada for Salmonella risk |...

36: Sucking the Air Out of a Meat Bag 02.09.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sucking the air out of a meat bag Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Lakeside Refrigerated Services Recalls Beef Products due to Possible E.coli O157:H7 Contamination Food Safety Talk 79: You're Into Botulism Country (with Merlin Mann) — Food Safety Talk

35: Reusing Red Onion Pickling Brine 31.08.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks or reusing reusing red onion pickling brine Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Quick Pickled Onions Recipe | Bon Appetit Outbreak Investigation of Salmonella Newport: Red Onions (July 2020) | FDA  

34: Thawing Frozen Fish in Vacuum Packed Bag 28.08.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of thawing frozen fish in vacuum packed bag Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/fsis-content/internet/main/topics/regulations/advisory-committees/nacmcf-reports/nacmcf-map-fishery-products Conservative Prediction of Time to Clostridium botulinum Toxin Formation for Use with Time-Temperature Indicators...

33: Black Garlic 26.08.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of fermenting black garlic Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Black garlic - Wikipedia Black Garlic – food safety – Dr. Brian Nummer PhD

32: Food Stored in a Delivery Bag in a Restroom 24.08.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating food stored in a delivery bag in a restroom. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 (12) JSmith on Twitter: "Risky or Not? @benjaminchapman @bugcounter https://t.co/n5mMp5MxKv" / Twitter Bathroom-stored grocery bag fingered in norovirus outbreak | CIDRAP

31: Rice Left in a Waming Rice Cooker Over Night 21.08.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating rice left in a waming rice cooker over night Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Neuro Fuzzy® Rice Cooker & Warmer NS-ZCC10/18 | Zojirushi.com Bacillus cereus - Wikipedia

30: Cutting Mold Off Hard Cheese 19.08.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of cutting mold off hard cheese. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Formation of Aflatoxin in Cheddar Cheese by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus - ScienceDirect

Methanol Hand Sanitizer 17.08.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risk of methanol hand sanitizer. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ FDA updates on hand sanitizers consumers should not use | FDA Serious Adverse Health Events, Including Death, Associated with Ingesting Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers Containing Methanol — Arizona and New Mexico, May–June 2020 | MMWR 8 People in U.S. Have Died After Ingesting Hand S...

28: Bar Soap 14.08.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using bar soap Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Washing with contaminated bar soap is unlikely to transfer bacteria

27: Eating at a Restaurant in Times of COVID-19 12.08.2020

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating at a restaurant in times of COVID-19 Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Raleigh restaurant professionally cleaned after coronavirus patient ate there :: WRAL.com Considerations for Restaurants and Bars | COVID-19 | CDC

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