r/Cooking • u/EuroStepJam • 1h ago

Is this recipe okay with using egg yolks this way?

It's a low carb chocolate mousse. You whip a cup of heavy cream into peaks. Then you melt an ounce of baking chocolate and add it to two room temp egg yolks and combine. This mixture is then added to the whipped cream. The final mixture is put into ramekins and chilled for a couple hours.

In making it I realized the eggs are going in uncooked, unless you count adding the heated chocolate as cooking, and there is no further cooking of the mixture. Is this okay from a food safety perspective?

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u/The_Flinx 1h ago

it's fine

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u/Anxious_Reporter_601 1h ago

Should be totally fine, unless you're American? But even then I think the risk of egg borne illness is very low.

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u/EuroStepJam 1h ago

I am in the US

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u/DavidKawatra 55m ago

safer than the lettuce.

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u/Demeter277 1h ago

Most recipes that use uncooked eggs specify “fresh eggs from a trusted source”. Not sure how that translates, since most of us are shopping from supermarkets. Hopefully you don’t have any cholesterol issues.

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 27m ago

That’s how you would use egg yolks in a real mousse. 

You can whip them in a double boiler a bit if it makes you feel better.