/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19259647]

Who had the bright idea to heat up food?

[Anonymous No.19259659]

you know how when you get something new you want to use it on everything for everything

[Anonymous No.19259682]

>>19259647
Probably no one. They probably were poking around the remains of a small wild fire (which was probably the most absolutely terrifying thing ever to them, so much so we retain that trauma) and scavenged the burnt carcasses of larger creatures and how days after the fire they still smelled really good and there was tones of deliciousness under that charred exterior.

I'm more interested in the big brain boys that discovered ways to create fire with 0 reference and working knowledge. Probably another happy accident, just something they noticed and made the go "wait a second...." like rubbing a really itchy bug bite and noticing it get warmer and fire is warm so "maybe if I take two things that I see on fire and rub them together like hand and bug bite, then they become warm like fire" or some shit. Man, what a time to have been alive.

[Anonymous No.19259690]

>>19259682
It's really crazy when you think about it. Someone back in prehistory ate each and every part of the potato plant, then ate each and every part of a boiled plant to figure out it's the root that's good to eat. I think there are some vegetables that have to be blanched or they're poisonous. Some caveman ate that plant, got sick and thought "okay but what happens if I boil it for a few seconds" and tried again. Who was the first dude to boil bones and drink the bone water?

[Anonymous No.19259695]

>>19259659
>>19259682
>>19259690
all wrong. it was actually me the entire time! I did it!

[Anonymous No.19259701]

>>19259695
Wow! Thanks bud, I love potatoes!
What gave you the idea to drink moldy bread water and invent beer?

[Anonymous No.19259707]

>>19259690
The animal ones are especially crazy. Like the trial and error that went into using an animals brain to tan its hide. I think for a lot of plants, we learned that stuff stalking animals like bears and hogs.

[Anonymous No.19259712]

Didn’t the aboriginal Australians discover cooked food because of lightning starting brush fires like 50,000 years ago?

[Anonymous No.19259789]

>>19259647
Some Homo Erectus ~400kya

[Anonymous No.19261127]

>>19259647
The Gods of the sky who struck down a beast with lightning and the smoldering remains tasted good. Or a forest fire

[Anonymous No.19261302]

>>19259789
Humans, chimps and bonobos descended from a single ancestor species that lived 13-4 million years ago. All 3 can barbecue. It's safe to assume the common ancestor (CHLCA) could too.

[Anonymous No.19261329]

>>19259690
>Who was the first dude to boil bones and drink the bone water?
That's easy, i assume they boiled meat with bones and meat without and realized that the bones made it taste better (and maybe observed the collagen if they didn't eat it all at once).

[Anonymous No.19261352]

>>19259647
Lightning

[Anonymous No.19261405]

>>19259647
I believe it was Krog the Elder

[Anonymous No.19261507]

>>19259690
The invention of bread keeps me up at night sometimes. Invented before the agricultural revolution too.

[Anonymous No.19261510]

>>19261507
Yikes! Now do honey

[Anonymous No.19261534]

>>19259682
>fire was an accident and not ordained by God...
fucking smoot brains... every time

[Anonymous No.19261539]

>>19259682
I am sure genetic fear of fire is much older than hominids

[Anonymous No.19261588]

>>19259682
>Man, what a time to have been alive.
kek

[Anonymous No.19261641]

>>19259647
Ramsey. He is a mongoloid neanderthal.

[Anonymous No.19261685]

Cooking techniques, as well as other technical knowledge, were derived from the tree of knowledge in the garden of Eden. As with every other blessing on earth, it is ultimately from God. However, it was forbidden from us and our willful nature has cursed us all from paradise until the second coming.

[Anonymous No.19261710]

Could be trying to warm up meat from a frozen carcass and it ended up tasting better when it was left in the fire for longer.

[Anonymous No.19261731]

>>19261710
is that nuWho

[Anonymous No.19261992]

Another question is..how the fuck so many tribes have fire?
Its either ..the fire is easily discoverable, or it was just one tribe in the begining and separated.

[Anonymous No.19261995]

>>19261731
I boot the blue froggies till I weep

[Anonymous No.19262012]

>>19261992
The fire is really fucking useful and people with access to such cutting edge technology will have a significant advantage over backward savages.

[Anonymous No.19262017]

>>19259701
Imagine being this dumb. Leave fruit long enough and it will begin to ferment. They probably just ate super overripe fruit, got a buzz, and worked it out from there.

[Anonymous No.19262049]

>>19259712
Abbos didn't even discover fire by the time European settlers arrived.

[Anonymous No.19262066]

>>19261992
I am imagining the answer to the questions in this thread is far more horrific and violent than is suggested. It's probably something more like, any tribe that didn't have a way of making fire literally died. same with plant foods. you work out what foods are poisonous by someone eating them and dying.

in my country there are nut kernel type things that are poisonous unless all the tannins are leeched out. but it was a staple food. people might say wow those cavemen types were smart figuring this out, but the reason is probably more like some fell from a tree into a stream and then someone ate them and didn't die whereas the one who ate them raw died.

it's the same with beer. people didn't set out make it. it was probably someone collected seeds to eat, left them somewhere in a pot, rain got in and it fermented then they drank it and felt a mild buzz.

bread would just be the same thing. someone bashed up seeds and accidently left them. came back later and a rough dough had risen. chucked it in the fire viola there's bread.

[Anonymous No.19262075]

>>19259647
Cavemen were too dumb. Aliens were probably watching and thinking "wtf these fucking dumbasses" and came down to help them out with a few basic tips

[Anonymous No.19262086]

>>19259659
I fucked my first vacuum cleaner

[Anonymous No.19262095]

>>19259682
You are overcomplicating it
They probably rubbed still hot coal to start more fire then they had less and less so they had to rub harder

[Anonymous No.19262128]

>>19262095
it's probably more like someone was carving wood and noticed a hot pile of wood dust forming then blew on it

[Anonymous No.19262140]

>>19261507
how the fuck would you gather enough grain to make bread before farming

[Anonymous No.19262327]

>>19259695

[Anonymous No.19262330]

>>19262140
Wheat grows in the wild. It's much shittier than the wheat we ended up cultivating but it's there.

[Anonymous No.19262378]

>>19262327
kek giga based

[Anonymous No.19262405]

>>19262049
Come on anon, give them a little credit. With how often this country goes up like a tinder box, I'm sure at least one of them would've noticed some yellow flames off in the distance

[Anonymous No.19262433]

grug. it was grug.

[Anonymous No.19262466]

>>19261507
My guess is they cooked grain to soften it and at some point some grain got smashed and the guy threw it in water anyway and noticed that it's behaving oddly. And eventually they figured out if you smash grain good and add water you can make goop that you can harden by baking.

[Anonymous No.19262506]

>>19262405
>>19262049
Incorrect, it was just the Tasmanians specifically who apparently didn’t know how to use fire.

The “mainland” abbos have the honor of un-domesticating the dog though.

[Anonymous No.19262772]

>>19262066
I think humans of yore are smarter than we give them credit for. There's evidence that they knew about how to make bread. Breads on cave walls, breads in sarcophagi, breads in caves. People knew about it, knowledge travels.