Any ideas on where the earliest cooking paraphenalia has been found?
2006-06-20 01:00:29 · 17 answers · asked by hoddoi 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
I like this question, I find it interesting. The earliest cooking paraphernalia was probably a piece of meat on a wood skewer. Knowing a great deal about science, I have a theory about this. My theory is that early man did not master fire to get heat. They lived in Africa, mostly, they didn't need it for heat. They did it to preserve food so they could eat on a more regular basis. If you kill a large animal and eat all you can, the rest of the meat will soon spoil and you'll be starving again. If you dry and cook the meat you can eat it for a very long time. They would have figured this out by finding animals killed and cooked in natural forest fires and figured they needed to master this skill for themselves to survive.
2006-06-20 01:07:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
One day about a million years ago, my ancestors went hunting in the forest. Suddenly there were lighting. Lighting cause fire in the forest. Forest burned & kill many animals. My ancestors could not found any live animals, so my ancestors decides to take some of the burned ones back to the caves. That is how cooking got started. Sticks and stone were the paraphenalias.
2006-06-20 22:06:42 · answer #2 · answered by sharpshooter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many believe man came from nothing and has evolved; when actually he started with everything and has devolved. Cooking, like fishing, agriculture, landscaping, and language have always existed. Man did not discover what foods to eat by trial and error, he'd have never survived. Cooking is virtually as old as eating. Also, man never 'discovered' fire or the wheel, he always had these things.
2006-06-20 12:48:50 · answer #3 · answered by oneyed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Cook.
2006-06-20 08:03:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always liked the old story that early man dropped a piece of raw meat in the fire by accident and when retrieved, it tasted better than raw. Early paraphernalia would be the universal sharp stick and stone for pounding.
2006-06-20 13:03:39 · answer #5 · answered by lpaganus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can tell you absolutely that cooking was not invented by my wife.
In fact, she still seems unaware that cooking is a known technique. : )
(Actually, she is wonderful and I can't complain, but I could not resist this answer : )
2006-06-20 08:12:25 · answer #6 · answered by Garden-ER 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The natural wild fire cooked/grilled it's animals first. And then the men keep to continue it.
2006-06-20 08:11:07 · answer #7 · answered by Konfuzius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Invented ?
more like discovered by pre-historic man.
2006-06-20 11:35:59 · answer #8 · answered by Basil P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cavemen i think watch an episode of the flintstones and see which one first has cooking in it, check when that episode was made and there u go!
2006-06-20 08:03:14 · answer #9 · answered by minizila2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Early man, when he discovered raw food was not the way to go.
2006-06-20 08:02:37 · answer #10 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋