How and when did humans begin cooking food

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@LunarOrbit I'm talking about cooking it over flame

@LunarOrbit Dried might’ve been the only way they’d preserve meat before cooking. Fire was around fro about 2 million years and smoking meat has been around fro about 11000 and salt has been used in food preservation for about 5000 years. However as to how they ate it before cooking @fernie2 it was probably raw. The only reason raw meats can be poisonous to people, and they aren’t always, is because we’ve been cooking them for so long that we lost all the enzymes that could break it down properly.

@Benjr134 apparently humans ate meat about 2.6 million years ago so the barbeque could have been invented about 2 million years ago