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No alcohol? Your & Reba´s post got me wondering because of raw eggs.. How could it destory bacteria (salmonella) without cook OR use alcohol? I know that any liqueur always have raw eggs including that why we use strong alcohol to kill bacteria....
Of my 55 years, I think I've been drinking non-alcoholic eggnog for about 45 years, and I've never gotten sick. I don't know anyone who got sick.
Commercial eggnog is usually pasteurized, so the bacteria are killed in the process.
You might find this interesting:
Q: What can I do to reduce the risk of salmonella when using eggs?
A: Salmonella is a bacterium that is present in the intestinal tracts of animals, birds, reptiles, insects, and people. Eggs are rarely internally contaminated, since the natural barriers in an egg: the bloom, shell, membranes, white, and yolk membrane all provide protection for the yolk, which is the only place in the egg that bacteria will have the proper conditions to reproduce.
In general, when salmonellosis occurs, it is usually caused by cross-contamination. Cross- contamination is when a food (or cutting board or knife or dishtowel) is contaminated and then through contact, infects another food. With eggs, this can happen when the salmonella bacteria are present on the outside of the eggshell, and through contact between the shell and egg, while cracking or separating, the yolk and egg white become contaminated. In other words, discard all broken eggs.
...One strain, however, Salmonella Enteritidis, has adapted to survive in the hen's ovaries, and salmonella can be passed into the yolk before the eggshell is formed. According to the American Egg Board and the Center for Disease Control, even if a chicken is internally infected, only one egg in 10,000 may be internally contaminated. More practically put,
if 1 of every 20,000 eggs were definitely infected, the average consumer would encounter a contaminated egg once every 84 years.
Food Network: Cooking 101 - Q & A
"A caution:
Don't be lulled into a false sense of security by thinking adding alcohol to eggnog kills these bacteria. Only heat can destroy salmonella."
The Shreveport Times
So, bottom line:
alcohol does NOT kill salmonella in raw eggs.
