Never eat raw dough.

*Do* eat raw dough. *Do* let your kids lick the spoon. Use fresh ingredients. Wash your utensils and dishes. Store raw meat on the bottom shelf.

Never spend your whole life worried half to death that you might die from some minuscule risk. You get all that added stress from worrying, and you miss out on the pleasure.

Yeah, you might get salmonella. Guess what. It’s not that bad usually. Totally worth the risk.

Though I have to say, I wouldn’t recommend this car-baking thing. All those calories aren’t worth it if you’re not caramelizing the sugars. Cookies need to be baked at 350 degrees minimum. For taste.

Egg whites do not begin to coagulate (cook) until they reach about 140F and egg yolks do not begin to coagulate until they reach about 150F. For both, the temperature must be raised another 10F before they can be considered cooked. Both fats and sugar retard the coagulation of the egg so that they don’t begin to coagulate until about 180F. The foregoing can be found at Baking911, America’s Test Kitchen and the USDA/FSIS. It seems that your cookies may be dehydrating rather than actually baking.

I am guessing (not much of a cook myself) that a workaround would be recipe(s) that doesn’t use eggs or at least uses things like egg substitutes.

I’d happily just eat raw dough

As for vegan cookies- This recipe is really good, no animal products, and they don’t really brown, so you wouldn’t lose any cookie integrity by car-cooking:
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=6391.0

Your chicken wings will be done in 150 miles.

http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Food-on-Your-Car%27s-Engine

There are similar reasons to wash your own lettuce rather than take a chance on contamination of an entire vat of prewashed stuff bound for the nitrogen packs.

Come to think of it, the more of your own food you prepare, the better.

“I’ve eaten raw eggs for since I was a kid and I never got sick”

or

“In Europe (or where ever), we eat raw eggs all the time.”

or

“My mother/grandmother always ate raw eggs.”

Food poisoning is NOT a joke. It can kill you. It can cause major organ damage. We’re talking the stuff of nightmares. The folks who laugh off the risk of food poisoning imagine a day or two of the shits and a bit of a bellyache. They have NO idea, no clue.

The eggs you eat now are not your grandmother’s eggs. The conditions in which chickens are kept are unhealthy and grotesque. The crowding meant that a while back (maybe 20 years ago?) there was a big campaign to get consumers to cook eggs thoroughly. One did not, back in the day have to do this. Once could also eat rare hamburger without courting serious illness.

To increase profits, food has gotten dirty. And it is all flipped, the fault. In a bit of jaw-dropping misdirection, the consumers have been blamed. We are the ones making a mistake if we don’t cook the hell out of our food. Never you mind that grandmother didn’t have to do any such thing.

It all works out for the corporations because of the apathy, credulity and aggressive ignorance of the consumer. Most people aren’t paying attention. We just nodded and started cooking all our burgers until they were the color of shirt cardboard and our eggs until the yolks had the consistency of wall plaster and the whites – shoe leather. Never demanding that our food be safe. (Really, Americans don’t care about food being safe. We don’t care about food being good. We just demand that our food is CHEAP.)

But, in a small way, the most maddening thing of all are the folks who don’t respect how serious foodborne illness can be. It is not a joke. If you have a habit of eating stupid and you haven’t gotten sick, it’s hardly a reason to crow and brag. You aren’t clever, just lucky. There is no food in the world that is worth getting serious food poisoning. Certainly not crap cookies cooked on your dashboard.

I’ve always wanted to try this with a pork loin. I’d use a thermometer to check the meat, though.

If God didn’t want us to eat E. coli He wouldn’t have invented raw eggs.”

Yes! Thank you SAMSAM. I love Europeans. Europe, the place where food makes sense.
Also, thank you Ivan256.We always ate the cookie dough when I was a kid. My dad wouldn’t let us eat raw meat, tho. And I did have a bad experience with a pizza that was left in a warm room for hours. I was at work and they told me to take the pizza home. I couldn’t wait to get home and nuke it and I ended up waking up in the middle of the night very, very sick. But I lived to tell about it.

Would the wrap retain heat and help the cookies bake at a slightly higher temperature?

see http://www.sunoven.com/

This car interior cooking is a bad idea. Seriously. Your car’s interior cannot properly cook raw cookie dough. And… the most popular dough has been found to recently contain animal ecoli (from cow poo, basically). They (Nestle) say it’s all cool, but you eat tainted dough raw and you can die… or lose your ability to process normal food.

Heat all cookies to 180F.

Never eat raw dough.

It’s all fun and games ’til someone loses a colon.

And… get off my lawn (and get your damn Frisbee off my roof).

/middleagedranting

That said: yeah, food safety concerns here. A solar oven on the dash might solve that because you can design them to get a lot hotter than 150F, but that sort of defeats the purpose of an oven-free baking process.

http://www.youtube.com/user/SunshineCooking

SunshineCooking

“Never eat raw dough.”

Might as well just give up and die then.