mead107 Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 (edited) How did humans learn about fire to cook meat and fish ? Veggies? Edited October 9, 2018 by mead107 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGOATski Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 Smell When some kind of flesh caught fire, it smelled good. Then they were like "if it smells good after burning, let's eat it after burning it." The rest is history. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boca BIlls Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 1 hour ago, LeGOATski said: Smell When some kind of flesh caught fire, it smelled good. Then they were like "if it smells good after burning, let's eat it after burning it." The rest is history. Damn straight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo_Gal Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 No flame, they loved sushi and steak tartare. And to think, people pay big bucks for cavemen "delicacies" these days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinceThe70s Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Corollary question: how many forest fires before someone discovered ganja? Or if they ate it first, which caveman Einstein determined incineration/inhalation trumped digestion? But if they ate it first, how many cases of tracheal poison ivy did they endure before they struck gold? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadingpain Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 I bet cooking with fire was discovered by accident or mistake, and then people realized it was better doing it that way than going raw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 They ran the wholly mammoths & later, American bison off cliffs into blind canyons. Then brought their knives and forks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 I like the "Big Question" angle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 I bet they found a Martha Stewart cookbook with photos. That’s all it took. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, Fadingpain said: I bet cooking with fire was discovered by accident or mistake, and then people realized it was better doing it that way than going raw. Did somebody mention "tartare." The Monguls/Tartars would tenderize meat by riding on it while on horseback. Eat it raw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterbluesky Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 1 minute ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Did somebody mention "tartare." The Monguls/Tartars would tenderize meat by riding on it while on horseback. Eat it raw. When I came back stateside,I jived my way into a SERE course courtesy of the Corps.We drank our urine,ate raw elk which included organ meat, since the limitation of any access to flame was grossly low in a wet,damp forest...but a fella we called Junkman got us lit..the raw consumption was rough.I vote flame....and don't trust wild mushrooms.Igotchopeyoteritehea. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 4 minutes ago, Misterbluesky said: When I came back stateside,I jived my way into a SERE course courtesy of the Corps.We drank our urine,ate raw elk which included organ meat, since the limitation of any access to flame was grossly low in a wet,damp forest...but a fella we called Junkman got us lit..the raw consumption was rough.I vote flame....and don't trust wild mushrooms.Igotchopeyoteritehea. Yikes! That sounds so offal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterbluesky Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 1 minute ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Yikes! That sounds so offal! And some people think eating raw oysters,tuna and or clams sounds "offal". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 6 minutes ago, Misterbluesky said: And some people think eating raw oysters,tuna and or clams sounds "offal". Kidneys and bladders, it's best to boil the piss out of it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterbluesky Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 8 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Kidneys and bladders, it's best to boil the piss out of it! Grins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 The first person to eat cheese probably did it on a dare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 12 hours ago, mead107 said: How did humans learn about fire to cook meat and fish ? Veggies? My uneducated guess is when there were fires in the forest or savanna, animals were trapped and burned. Hungry early humans found them, liked it and must have made the connection. So I'm going to say Animals, final answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 I thought they ate apples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 3 hours ago, Gugny said: I thought they ate apples. And that's how we got into this mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fr. Jerk Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 (edited) Makes me wonder who had the idea to snort cocaine and all the bad stuff that person probably snorted prior. Edited October 10, 2018 by The Jerk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 16 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said: No flame, they loved sushi and steak tartare. And to think, people pay big bucks for cavemen "delicacies" these days. what neanderthals 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweats Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 I don’t know the correct terminology but fire makes it good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoBills808 Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 I'm guessing something fell into the fire and they pulled it out and ate it in the morning and it tasted pretty good. There's some research on how cooking food allowed for the enormous expansion of brainpower in humans; bigger brains coincided w/ smaller jaws and teeth as we didn't need to be masticating tough raw fare. Cooking also requires patience, planning, and can increase the nutritional quality of many foods, enabling us to spend more time on developing society instead of constantly searching for our next meal. Cooking and agriculture were perhaps two of the biggest developments in our species' history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Egg Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 15 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said: I jived .....explains a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 9 minutes ago, I am the egg man said: .....explains a lot. Don't eat the fish! "S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!" Translation: I ATE SOMETHING THAT IS MAKING MY INSIDES CRAMP UP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterbluesky Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 5 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Don't eat the fish! "S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!" Translation: I ATE SOMETHING THAT IS MAKING MY INSIDES CRAMP UP Johnny Hammersticks on the left ? Don't throw the popcorn.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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