Image description: These are the actual veggie wings and Dr. Don’s actual unwashed hands.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from flipping veggie wings with unwashed hands.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

ChatGPT image description: A rustic kitchen scene centers on a bowl of cooked brown rice on a wooden counter. Above and around it, pantry moths flutter beneath hanging utensils, garlic, herbs, and chili peppers. The warm lighting contrasts the wholesome food with an unsettling infestation.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating eating cooked brown rice infested with pantry moths.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

ChatGPT image description: A fluffy orange cat sits on a kitchen floor, squinting and wrinkling its nose in clear disgust at a stainless steel water bowl filled with cloudy, debris-laden water. The cat’s expression conveys strong refusal, as if judging the water unfit to drink.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from not washing a pets water bowl for a week.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

ChatGPT image description: A food microbiologist in a lab coat, gloves, and mask carefully examines a caramel apple removed from a mailed package. The apple is wrapped in plastic and studded with nuts. The scientist’s furrowed brow and cautious posture convey concern about the apple’s safety.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating a candied or caramel apple that's been shipped priority mail.

Dr. Don - risky ☣️
Professor Ben - risky ☣️

ChatGPT image description: A grinning old-time criminal in a black eye mask and striped prison uniform stands behind a pizza counter, slicing and serving pizza. The vintage pizzeria setting includes stacked boxes, condiments, and a retro sign, creating a playful, anachronistic scene where a cartoonish outlaw works as a pizza seller.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from Eating pizza sold by a person that broke into a pizza restaurant.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

Image description: The actual gummy bear in question.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from eating an opened two-year-old 5-pound gummy bear,

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

ChatGPT image description: A grimy warehouse storage area packed with assorted packaged foods sits under severe insanitary conditions. Open bags, jars, and boxes are stacked haphazardly amid rodent droppings, spilled food, and debris. Rats and pigeons are visible among contaminated products, suggesting serious food safety risks. (Note that this is NOT the actual warehouse).

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from food from a distribution center with a class II recall

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

ChatGPT image description: A person lowers a vacuum-sealed bag of raw meat seasoned with fresh garlic, herbs, and spices into a stainless-steel sous vide water bath. The clear plastic shows garlic cloves and rosemary against the meat, while a digital immersion circulator maintains a precise low cooking temperature. (Note that ChatGPT picked the temperature with no input from me).

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using fresh garlic in sous vide cooking.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

ChatGPT image description: Two bearded, leather-clad bikers crouch over a battered pot, poaching eggs in murky, trash-filled water. Steam rises as grimy hands crack eggs, motorcycles looming behind them in a rough, unsanitary outdoor scene.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using the Hairy Bikers egg poaching method.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼

ChatGPT image description: A person in a beige apron uses a spatula to scoop glossy, melted chocolate from a stainless steel fondue fountain into a mason jar. Thick chocolate drips down the tiers as the jar fills, suggesting the chocolate is being carefully saved for reuse later.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from re-using chocolate from a chocolate fondue fountain.

Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼
Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼