/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14290283]

how did early humans discover cooking with fire? did they leave an animal carcass too close to the campfire and later notice the smells of cooked meat? what sequence of events led to the first cookout? should i move this thread to /his/?

[Anonymous No.14290480]

>>14290283
>how did early humans discover cooking with fire?

Forest and grass fires would have been somewhat common in the arid and hot conditions of unkempt vegetation our ape ancestors wandered around in. It's not unlikely that they'd wait until a fire died down, saunter into the burnt field, and scavenge for whatever unlucky animals had been burned alive and thought to themselves, "HMN. GOOD.".

[Anonymous No.14290486]

there's a 100 000 year discrepancy between evidence of controlled fire by early humans and evidence of cooked food

[Anonymous No.14290504]

The fertile crescent was rife with lava flows during the dawn of man.
It was basically just there to use.

[Anonymous No.14290714]

>>14290486
im getting mixed results when i tried to do my own research some suggest early humans were cooking with controlled fire over 1mil years ago while some say it was only 12k years ago so i can see that there is a fair bit discrepancy.

[Anonymous No.14291369]

>>14290714
From what I've read, it was much more than 12k years ago. The ability to cook (which is essentially outsourcing digestion outside the body) impacted human evolution significantly. Over time, less space and energy had to be devoted to the gut, since the foods hominids were consuming were now easier to digest and more nutritious thanks to cooking. Simultaneously, cranial volumes got larger to accomodate bigger brains, aided by the fact that teeth and jaws could be smaller and the muscles to drive chewing could also be smaller, therefore requiring a less robust skull to attach to.

All those changes take time though. Austalopithicus might not have had home cooked meals, but later hominids certainly did to allow for the evolution described above.

[Anonymous No.14291384]

Chimpanzees are now in the stone age.

We will leave the planet to them once we become an interstellar civilization and the process will start all over again.

[Anonymous No.14291387]

>>14291384
Fuck all that.

Ape genocide now, gas the monkeys.

[Anonymous No.14291406]

>>14290504
lava seared chicken sounds tasty

[Anonymous No.14291462]

>>14290283
Lightning maybe. Struck a tree or something then the smell was good so one thing led to another.

[Anonymous No.14291468]

>>14291387
go back to pol

[Anonymous No.14291474]

Atheists be like go grandpa

[Anonymous No.14291484]

>>14291384

[Anonymous No.14291485]

>>14291474
We're just having fun, we all know Hephaestus snuck us some sparks on the DL.

[Anonymous No.14291514]

No one has any clue and any one that claims to is lieing out their ass.

[Anonymous No.14291517]

>>14291514

Nah, I was there.

[Anonymous No.14292783]

>>14291406
might have too much sulphur taste

[Anonymous No.14293084]

This thread reminded me that /an/ existed and I was in a very good Pongo thread and got a lot of good memes out of it. Thank you OP.

[Anonymous No.14293106]

>>14290480

the abbos are still doing this today. i’ve read something that said australia would be a lush forested area, much like new zealand, if it wasn’t for centuries of abbos burning down the forests to catch some easy food.

[Anonymous No.14293918]

>>14290486
>>14291369
i like to think they spent 100k years being too scared to eat anything consumed by hell fire lest they succumb to the same fate

[Anonymous No.14293962]

>>14293918
so there were probably varying degrees of fire control going around on the planet. some hominids may have brought it in to warm their caves/domiciles and eat with, some may have burned fields to flush out or cook bush meat with and some may have ignored it/feared it.

[Anonymous No.14294176]

I don't know, I wasn't there