# What do raw eggs do for you?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 23, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-raw-eggs-do-for-you/416592 "2007-08-23T03:03:14Z")\
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[QUOTE=TimeWinder]  
Not exactly like, perhaps, but many U.S. supermarkets now carry pasteurized eggs.  
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I’m really curious. How do you pasteurise an egg without cooking it?

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-raw-eggs-do-for-you/416592/22 "2007-08-24T02:49:10Z")

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They do heat them, and evidently it does affect the egg’s nature somewhat. There are recipes I’ve seen for things like eggnog that say you can use them but that they won’t froth as well.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-raw-eggs-do-for-you/416592/23 "2007-08-24T03:24:23Z")

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[QUOTE=Speaker for the Dead]  
I’m really curious. How do you pasteurise an egg without cooking it?  
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Just a WAG, but radiation?

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-raw-eggs-do-for-you/416592/24 "2007-08-24T20:16:17Z")

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[QUOTE=Speaker for the Dead]  
I’m really curious. How do you pasteurise an egg without cooking it?  
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Quick heating, it seems: [short article here](http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/microbiology/9367) .

There’s also [this article](http://www.melindalee.com/hardboileggs.html) (scroll down below the “apparent bottom”) that tells you how to pasteurize eggs yourself at home.

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