Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sifter full of flour sits on a navy blue tablecloth with some flour spilled around it. - Yulia Naumenko/Getty Images Some people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We've probably all been guilty of licking the beater after making a batch of cake batter or cookie dough. We’ve long been warned ...

It might seem like a good idea at the time, but certain raw cookie doughs can be especially dangerous to your health. While ...

These foods must be thoroughly cooked before consumption.

It’s good advice that, during the holidays, is often hard to follow. Don’t eat raw cookie dough. Kansas State University food scientist Karen Blakeslee acknowledges that it’s often difficult for many ...

ATLANTA — Planning on doing some baking? If you’re going to be dealing with flour; there’s some ways you could get sick from E. coli that perhaps you didn’t think about. So how do you keep food ...

The most basic of baking ingredients, flour, is at the center of a complicated question: How did it become contaminated with bacteria normally found in animal feces? The E. coli-tainted flour from ...

Flour is the foundation of some of our favorite foods. We can thank flour for making our breads, pastas, and pastries so good. And since it’s such a pantry staple, there’s a high likelihood you’ve ...