2) the process of baking introduces air bubbles &c, which give it a nice yummy texture
3) you can keep cakes that're baked and have a slice at will
4) they look pretty if done right, even without any sort of icing, coating or whatever
5) Anyone can throw ingredients into a tub and mix them together to make goo. I reckon even you could do it. Baking is an art.
6) Freshly baked cakes smell nice
7) Because we do, OK?
8) having said all this, raw cookie dough kept in the fridge doesn't always all make it to the oven when I know it's there
9) Some flavour aquire a completely different effect during the baking process--orange and cinnamon comes to mind, goes from quite harsh to very very nice while in the oven.
10) it's easy to cary baked cakes around, share them out, etc without implements, cake mix being gooey is going to need something to hold it and a spoon
11) for bonus extra points. No one is ever impressed being given a spoonfull of goo. A decent cake can get you laid.
Raw eggs aren't actually a problem - in the US it's about 1 in 30,000 eggs that have salmonella, and in the UK vaccination against salmonella is indicated by a stamp (And is quite common, I believe).
you'd think that people would eat cake mix as it's own thing sometimes. Due to it tasting of pure awesome.
I do!
I may have baked cookies last week on account of wanting some cookie dough and then realising that I'd be ill if I actually ate all of it raw.... Actually, that may be your explanation: really, the scrapings are about as much as you'd want to eat raw in one sitting, and if you didn't bake it then you would be compelled by the loveliness to keep eating, and then you'd throw up....
True. I can't eat more than a tiny bit, due to sugar and whatnot, but even when I could eat more eating more than a slice or two's worth is inadvisable, no matter what form it's in.
My mother used to warn that if one ate raw flour / dough, it could cause worms to start growing in one's body. Not likely to happen nowadays, but maybe it used to happen.
It almost always tastes better baked anyway, to me.
1 in 30,000 eggs in the US are contaminated. In the UK vaccination is commonplace (and marked on the eggs themselves). And the number of people it harms is incredibly small from the infection rate. Its dangers are blown wildly out of proportion.
The risk of getting a contaminated egg are pretty low on average - lowest if the eggs are very fresh. The bacteria is most dangerous for members of vulnerable populations too. So, for a healthy adult with no particular risk-factors eating a fresh raw egg once in a while isn't such a crazy thing at all.
Because cakes do not come from cake mixes. Shitty cakes come from cake mixes. The baked version is in all ways superior.
And while you can get pasteurized eggs in the US, making up for the fact that we don't have tons of immunized supply, that doesn't quite make up for the non-raw egg eating population around here.
That's why I said nasty flour milkshake, but I was specifically referring to the kind you get when you take a mix from a store and use it to make a cake.
Still, the cake mix, even if made with the right bits, isn't what I'd call appetizing. If it's really good, it's still gruel soup with sugar bits in.
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2) the process of baking introduces air bubbles &c, which give it a nice yummy texture
3) you can keep cakes that're baked and have a slice at will
4) they look pretty if done right, even without any sort of icing, coating or whatever
5) Anyone can throw ingredients into a tub and mix them together to make goo. I reckon even you could do it. Baking is an art.
6) Freshly baked cakes smell nice
7) Because we do, OK?
8) having said all this, raw cookie dough kept in the fridge doesn't always all make it to the oven when I know it's there
9) Some flavour aquire a completely different effect during the baking process--orange and cinnamon comes to mind, goes from quite harsh to very very nice while in the oven.
10) it's easy to cary baked cakes around, share them out, etc without implements, cake mix being gooey is going to need something to hold it and a spoon
11) for bonus extra points. No one is ever impressed being given a spoonfull of goo. A decent cake can get you laid.
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Not that I object to cake, but you'd think that people would eat cake mix as it's own thing sometimes. Due to it tasting of pure awesome.
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I do!
I may have baked cookies last week on account of wanting some cookie dough and then realising that I'd be ill if I actually ate all of it raw.... Actually, that may be your explanation: really, the scrapings are about as much as you'd want to eat raw in one sitting, and if you didn't bake it then you would be compelled by the loveliness to keep eating, and then you'd throw up....
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It almost always tastes better baked anyway, to me.
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Though I often wonder this. Also about cookies and brownies.
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Lettuce may be more dangerous.
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It just seems like cake mix would be one of those things that you'd see eaten as a thing in itself sometimes.
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from raw eggs.
It's rare, but really nasty when it does happen.
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At least 60 people became ill, nearly half of them needed to be admitted to hospital.
So, rare, but serious when it happens.
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And while you can get pasteurized eggs in the US, making up for the fact that we don't have tons of immunized supply, that doesn't quite make up for the non-raw egg eating population around here.
Plus, cake mix is like a nasty flour milkshake.
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Still, the cake mix, even if made with the right bits, isn't what I'd call appetizing. If it's really good, it's still gruel soup with sugar bits in.
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But make enough mix to eat some raw too :-p
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