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I've read raw cashews are not safe. Is the milk, cream, and butter safe?

Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

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This event was on December 5, 2023

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Dan is ready to answer them all.

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Question

Cynthia Dudak

I've read raw cashews are not safe. Is the milk, cream, and butter safe?

Answer

Yeah, raw cashews are actually fine to eat. Um, I've done it for years in, uh, cashew creams, um, using just simply raw cashews. Um, I'm not sure why where you've read that they're not safe, but I've never known them not to be safe. So the milk, the cream and the butter are all safe. Um, and that garlic butter that I was talking about, if you do cashews with the garlic and stuff like that too, it's a wonderful way to be able to use those as well. And you, you're baking those off too, so if you're worried about something with that, you're cooking it at the same time. But from my understanding, I've never known anything to be wrong with the raw cashews. I eat them regularly inside of my family.

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

*Dan Marek* is a chef educator who has been teaching vegan and vegetarian cooking for over 15 years. At Rouxbe, he is our Director of Plant-Based Culinary and Development where he helps develop content, classes and builds courses for many of our partners. Dan is a board member of Slow Food Austin, the Institute of Child Nutrition, and Conscious Capitalism. He has earned his BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and holds certificates in Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to his role with Rouxbe, Dan worked with Whole Kids Foundation training teachers and food service at schools across the country on nutrition and culinary best practices. He also worked as a Healthy Eating Educator at Whole Foods Market’s flagship store in Austin, TX, was a personal chef for some of Austin’s elite business people, taught classes in culinary techniques at Austin Community College, The Natural Epicurean, and Le Cordon Bleu. Dan also regularly volunteers cooking or speaking about nutrition for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Marathon Kids, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas.