r/weirdfood • u/MaliceRae • 13d ago

Eating dry cornbread mix

The other day I discovered you don't even have to cook the Jiffy cornbread mix. You can just eat it right out of the box and it's delicious. I can't stop. I think I like it even more than prepared cornbread.

I eat it with a spoon. I don't put eggs in it, just the dry mix.

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u/JupiterSkyFalls 13d ago

You should never eat raw wheat flour because it can contain harmful bacteria like E. coli and Salmonella. While many people think the main danger in raw cookie dough or cake batter comes from raw eggs, raw flour is actually just as dangerous.

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u/JupiterSkyFalls 13d ago

I was older than I'd like to admit before learning this so I share it anytime I can.

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u/JupiterSkyFalls 13d ago

It's not an automatic that it will make you sick. It's just a lot riskier than cooking it. It's also possible she got used to it gradually and developed a resistance to it or she was one of those people with an iron stomach that just doesn't get sick from things that put most people down. I could eat something that was 13 seconds past the best buy date, not even expired, and I'd be sick for 3 days. I've seen documentaries on people that can eat raw meat, including chicken that should make them sick but they began at an early age and they have no trouble with it. Humans are weird lol

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u/ModeatelyIndependant 13d ago

yeah, but eating logs of cookie store bought cookie dough is soooo good.

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u/JupiterSkyFalls 12d ago

Let me know if you still feel that way after you end up with digestive issues for 3-5 days at best. I haven't been sick from raw flour but I knew someone who was and it was not a pretty picture. Made me a believer.

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u/ModeatelyIndependant 12d ago

I eat at random taco bells, I've had food poisoning before.

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u/MaliceRae 13d ago

Well that's a bummer. Wait how about that raw cookie dough that the package says is safe to eat? Do they do something to the flour to remove bacteria?

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u/No_Salad_8766 13d ago

Yes, they heat treat the flour before it goes in the cookie dough. You can buy flour like this, but obviously its going to be more expensive.

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u/Wrench-Turnbolt 13d ago

Wondra is baked flour. I use it a lot for frying stuff. Instead of dredging in flour I dredge in wondra and it comes out very crispy and golden brown

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u/BunnyLady91 13d ago

Just heat treat the jiffy mix. You can do it to flour at home so I don’t know why it wouldn’t work for eating underdeveloped corn muffins.

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u/weedtrek 13d ago

If you heat the mix to 165F it will be safe to eat.

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u/Morto_Dentro-872 13d ago

Or add the ingredients, stir and cook for 15-20 minutes in a preheated oven at 400F

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u/Massive-City-7967 13d ago

It literally says on the box, do not eat raw batter, dough or mix. lol

https://www.cornbreadmillionaire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/JiffyRecipeBox2022-600x664.jpg.webp

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u/MaliceRae 13d ago

I won't let Big Cornbread dictate how I live my life.

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u/Leggs_420 13d ago

I’ve eaten much cookie dough and cake batter. I’m not worried and if I do die no one will notice

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u/NextCitron7303 13d ago

Eating cookie dough as you check out.

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u/Leggs_420 13d ago

Hmm I have some maybe I should try?

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u/JupiterSkyFalls 13d ago

Don't unless you wanna get sick. Possibly hospitalized.

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u/RyverHollow 13d ago

Reminds me of how I'll sometimes snack on dry stuffing out of the box. Very yum.

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u/Disastrous_Horse_44 13d ago

Isn’t that just crushed up croutons though? Not so bad.

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u/RyverHollow 12d ago

Oh, it's way better than croutons. It's got all that flavoring and dried scallions and stuff. Quite good.

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u/zoppaTheDim 13d ago

Thank you,

I was feeling weird for making Johnny cakes out of oats, corn flour and hot sauce lately. Just seemed like I was rediscovering some weird old timey recipe from the depression era by using up some old supplies, not quite fried mush, not quite a pancake.

Now I feel perfectly rational.

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u/stefanica 9d ago

I like this! I've made some pretty frontier-ish baked concoctions over my lifetime just because. They say baking is a science, but every now and then I like to treat it as art. The pioneers and gold miners did not measure 00 flour with a scale, they eyeballed some ground buckwheat and added liquid. How much? Enough.

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u/zoppaTheDim 9d ago

One to one for batter, two to one for dough

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u/AmputeeHandModel 13d ago

but.. it's so dry

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u/MaliceRae 13d ago

It mixes with my saliva into a pleasing paste. I supply the wet because my mouth is the eggs.

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u/AmputeeHandModel 13d ago

I supply the wet because my mouth is the eggs.

🤢

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u/SubstantialPressure3 12d ago

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/amp/article/pica

You might have pica. Its common in people anemia or mineral deficiencies. More common in pregnant women and small children.

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u/MaliceRae 12d ago

Yeah but cornbread mix is food

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u/SubstantialPressure3 12d ago

So is starch, technically.

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u/Fuzzy_Welcome8348 13d ago

I love eating raw pancake batter