{"id":2757,"date":"2018-01-25T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2021-09-20T12:48:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:48:25","slug":"the-history-of-fire-cooking-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/the-history-of-fire-cooking-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"THE HISTORY OF FIRE COOKING PART I"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 500px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2757-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" loop autoplay preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/history-of-fire-I-blog-.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/history-of-fire-I-blog-.mp4\">https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/history-of-fire-I-blog-.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The history of fire cooking part I<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">THE HISTORY OF FIRE COOKING: PART I<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1986\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"wp-image-1986 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BURNING-THE-WOOD-DOWN-e1632156310209-142x150.jpg\" alt=\"Grill fire \" width=\"142\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the fire<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/web-audio-button.jpeg\" alt=\"listen to our blog\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">the history of fire cooking part I<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2757-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/THE-HISTORY-OF-FIRE-COOKING-PART-I-FULL-BLOG-AUDIO-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/THE-HISTORY-OF-FIRE-COOKING-PART-I-FULL-BLOG-AUDIO-1.mp3\">https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/THE-HISTORY-OF-FIRE-COOKING-PART-I-FULL-BLOG-AUDIO-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>For thousands of years, it was the only way to cook.\u00a0 Many believe that this discovery separated man from the other animals.\u00a0 Fire.<\/p>\n<p>Estimated to have been discovered some 2 million years ago, the discovery of fire and more importantly, the discovery of how to tame fire, resulted in man\u2019s brain development, value of food, changes in our body, and social structure.\u00a0 It gave us survivability.\u00a0 It extended our life by improving <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calorie\">daily calories<\/a> and nutritional needs by allowing us to cook poisonous plants and meats.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>So how did fire cooking get discovered?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 That is the million dollar question.\u00a0 Here are some of the hypotheses out there regarding the discovery of fire for cooking:<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><em>The History of Fire Cooking Part I- Nature Provides Ignition<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are some scientists who believe that fire cooking was found by accident.\u00a0 A lightning strike or grass fires that sprung up due to the excessive dry conditions exposed to the hot sun.\u00a0 Many don\u2019t feel man did anything to \u201cdiscover\u201d fire other than observe the characteristics of fire: it produces abundant heat, light, and when it traps an animal within its flames, it produced a more tender meat, easier to digest food source, and more pleasing aroma to the meat.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><em>Tool Construction<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are others who believe that early humans realized the importance of tools.\u00a0 By sharpening stones to produce spears, cutting tools, etc., these early beings observed spark.\u00a0 Either through intention or perhaps with Mother Nature\u2019s assistance, these sparks caught twigs, brush, fruit, and\/or grains on fire.\u00a0 Remember, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/tag\/early-humans\">early human life<\/a> did not involve a developed brain.\u00a0 A discovery of fire, however, would help advance not only our brains, but our bodies into the erect beings we are today.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><em>The Earliest Cave Cooking<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In South Africa\u2019s Northern Cape province, a dwelling known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wonderwerk_Cave\">Wonderwerk Cave<\/a>, contains the earliest evidence that our ancestors and apelike ancestors were using fire.\u00a0 Compacted dirt showed evidence of ashes, carbonized leaf and twig fragments, and burnt bits of animal bones.\u00a0 Scientists were then able to analyze this material and determine that the fragments were heated between 750 and 1300\u00b0F, which is the heat level of a small fire made of twigs and grasses.<\/p>\n<p>If indeed our earlier species learned to harness fire for cooking, this would account for the advancement of our brains and our ability to become erect beings walking on two legs.\u00a0 Cooking on fire allowed for easier chewing and digestion and produced extra calories to fuel our brains. Fire also warded off nighttime predators, allowing for sleep on the ground or in caves rather than in the trees.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><em>It\u2019s All About Energy<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Raw food diets have been popularized as a method of losing weight and of being healthier.\u00a0 However, only a fraction of the calories in raw starch and protein are absorbed by the body via the small intestine.\u00a0 As a result, the remainder passes into the large bowel, where it is broken down by the organ\u2019s high population of microbes, which consume the majority for themselves.\u00a0 However, cooked food is mostly digested by the time it enters the colon. For the same amount of calories ingested, the body gets roughly 30 percent more energy from cooked oat, wheat or potato starch as compared to raw, and as much as 78 percent from the protein in an egg.\u00a0 In experiments, animals given cooked food gain more weight than animals fed the same amount of raw food.<\/p>\n<p>Cooking breaks down collagen (connective tissue in meat) &amp; softens the plants&#8217; cell walls to release their storage of starch &amp; fat.\u00a0 The calories to fuel the bigger brains of successive species of hominids came at the expense of the energy-intensive tissue in the gut, which was shrinking at the same time.\u00a0 If you look at early imagery of apes, you\u2019ll see how we morphed into narrow-waisted Homo sapiens.<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211; the history of fire cooking part I<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Coming up in <strong><em>The History of Fire Cooking: Part II<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>learn more about why cooking foods by fire made us who we are today.\u00a0 In conclusion, did we provide you with new information you didn\u2019t know?\u00a0 Additionally, leave us a comment and subscribe as we bring recipes, tips, techniques, and the science behind the fire and smoke.<\/p>\n<h2>Purchase products:<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wood-chips-grande-sapore\/\">Wood Chips- Grande Sapore\u00ae<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wood-chunks-double-and-single-filet\/\">Wood Chunks- Double &amp; Single Filet<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5025\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5025\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/web-chunk-dude-with-glasses-and-reading.jpeg\" alt=\"More Related reading on &quot;What Wood for Smoking&quot; and other great smoking and grilling tips and techniques\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More Related reading on &#8220;What Wood for Smoking&#8221; and other great smoking and grilling tips and techniques<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Additional reading:<\/h2>\n<h3><a title=\"Permanent Link: OPEN PIT COOKING FIRE BUILDING: PART I\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/open-pit-cooking-fire-building-part-1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">-OPEN PIT COOKING FIRE BUILDING: PART I<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a title=\"Permanent Link: GRILL-BUILDING THE PERFECT COOKING FIRE- PART II\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/grill-building-the-cooking-fire\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">-GRILL-BUILDING THE PERFECT COOKING FIRE- PART II<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a title=\"Permanent Link: IS WOOD-TAR CREOSOTE THE \u2018MONSTER\u2019 TO WOOD-FIRED COOKING\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/creosote-monster-wood-fired-cooking\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">-IS WOOD-TAR CREOSOTE THE \u2018MONSTER\u2019 TO WOOD-FIRED COOKING<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1097\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1097\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-drsmoke-with-border-150x150.png\" alt=\"I hope you enjoyed the the history of fire cooking part I\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-drsmoke-with-border-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-drsmoke-with-border-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-drsmoke-with-border-270x270.png 270w, https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-drsmoke-with-border-192x192.png 192w, https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-drsmoke-with-border-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-drsmoke-with-border-32x32.png 32w, https:\/\/www.smokinlicious.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-drsmoke-with-border.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I hope you enjoyed the history of fire cooking part I<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of fire cooking part I THE HISTORY OF FIRE COOKING: PART I the history of fire cooking part I &nbsp; For thousands of years, it was the only way to cook.\u00a0 Many believe that this discovery separated man from the other animals.\u00a0 Fire. 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